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Accent & dialect

Accent & dialect. HUH!?!?!?!. New York City. Everyone has an accent & a dialect!. If you went to Georgia, you would sound funny to them!. Accent & dialect in books. Authors help readers ‘hear’ characters’ accents in the way they write the dialogue.

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Accent & dialect

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  1. Accent & dialect HUH!?!?!?!

  2. New York City

  3. Everyone has an accent & a dialect! • If you went to Georgia, you would sound funny to them!

  4. Accent & dialect in books • Authors help readers ‘hear’ characters’ accents in the way they write the dialogue. • Dobby from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: • “Dobby is always having to punish himself for something, sir. They lets Dobby get on with it, sir. Sometimes they reminds me to do extra punishments …”

  5. Accent & dialect in books • Authors help readers ‘hear’ characters’ accents in the way they write the dialogue. • Hagrid from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: • “I’m on’y jokin’.” … “I knew yeh hadn’t really. I told Lockhart yeh didn’ need teh. Yer more famous than him without tryin’.”

  6. You try: • How would you make the reader ‘hear’ how this character talks?

  7. Across Five Aprils • Many of the characters in Across Five Aprils have accents and dialects that Irene Hunt, the author, has helped us to ‘hear’ by carefully writing their dialogue.

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