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Introduction to Style and Tone

Introduction to Style and Tone. How does an author communicate his or her purpose ?. I can articulate the way an author communicates his or her purpose. Activation of Prior Knowledge. What does the acronym SOAPS stand for? S- O- A- P- S-. Read over the 911 transcript and map out SOAPS.

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Introduction to Style and Tone

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  1. Introduction to Style and Tone How does an author communicate his or her purpose?

  2. I can articulate the way an author communicates his or her purpose.

  3. Activation of Prior Knowledge What does the acronym SOAPS stand for? S- O- A- P- S-

  4. Read over the 911 transcript and map out SOAPS. S- O- A- P- S-

  5. Rhetorical Analysis Overview • The metaphor of a toolbox is an illustration of the choices an author makes when trying to communicate with an audience. • We call these tools rhetorical devices and rhetorical strategies. • Strategy is a large-scale choice made by the writer: organization, point of view, the mode in which the piece is written. • A device is a smaller-scale choice made by the writer: sentence-level elements like figurative language, and parallelism

  6. Let’s talk fashion...

  7. Each rhetorical device is a tool that gives a writer a specific style that helps him or her communicate an idea to an audience. Because tone and meaning are inseparable, we start there. Each clothing item is a tool that gives each student a specific look or style.

  8. Highlight the words you know on Handout F. NEXT: Work in partners to group the tone words that you know in three categories: neutral, positive connotation, and negative connotation. A chart for sorting purposes has been provided for you on the back of Handout G.

  9. GALLERY WALK!

  10. To summarize: • Tone is about nuance and shade of meaning. • Mood is how the READER feels. • Tone is how the WRITER feels about the subject.

  11. TONE I can distinguish tone in non-print text.

  12. What are the tools needed to build a house?

  13. Two people are having a conversation. Person A: No, you didn’t. Person B: Yes, I did. Person A: Where? Person B: On the other side of town. Person A: Was it expensive? Person B: Are you kidding? • Choose a tone from Handout F that can fit each speaker. • You and your partner will act out this scenario- use your face, body, and voice to communicate the tone.

  14. Because we must often interpret an author’s tone from written text, we must understand how the author communicates the tone. • We can’t hear tone of voice, so we must rely on other devices like detail and diction.

  15. da Vinci’s “Grotesque Portrait Study of Man” • What do you think the tone of this painting is? *REMEMBER: Tone is about the artist’s feelings, not the observer’s (mood).

  16. Detail and Tone I can analyze non-print text and discuss how detail contributes to tone.

  17. David Alfaro Siquiero’s “The Echo of the Scream” • List all of the details you see in this painting. • Based on the details, how do you think the painter feels about the subject?

  18. http://sachinwalia2k8.blogspot.com/2011/08/siqueiro-echo-of-scream.htmlhttp://sachinwalia2k8.blogspot.com/2011/08/siqueiro-echo-of-scream.html

  19. Today we will be discussing paragraph construction for the rhetorical analysis essay. Our focus here is to BALANCE supporting details with elaboration. • THINGS TO BE AWARE OF: • Topic sentence- MUST BE DEBATABLE • Detail- MUST BE SPECIFIC • Elaboration- MUST CONNECT THE DETAIL TO THE DEBATE/TRUTH IN THE TOPIC SENTENCE.

  20. Once you have completed your quiz.... • Please take out your tone words sheet. • On a separate sheet of paper please define all of the words that you do NOT know.

  21. Proper Paragraph Construction • Topic Sentence: • Da Vinci’s critical view of Mankind is illustrated in the details he includes in his sketch. • Supporting Detail: • The subject is wearing a frilly undershirt. • Elaboration: • Da Vinci sees Man as ostentatious.

  22. Nina Berman’s Pfc. Alan Jermaine Lewis, 23 • List all the details you see in this photograph. • IN PARTNERS: Choose a tone word from Handout H and three details that contribute to this that tone.

  23. Opinion-Fact-Opinion Format In one color write the following: Berman uses detail in her photograph to illustrate her _______________ tone. *Replace your tone word in the blank! In another color write the following: A one or two-sentence description of ONE detail from the painting that contributes to the chosen tone. In your FIRST color write the following: One or two sentences of opinion about the way in which that detail contributes to the chosen tone.

  24. Paragraph Construction

  25. Each piece of the well-constructed paragraph: Topic Sentence (Debatable Idea) Supporting Detail Elaboration (Shows how the detail supports the topic sentence)

  26. Construct a response for this piece of art on your note card. • Topic Sentence • Supporting Detail • Elaboration Sentence Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

  27. Mood, tone, and emotion: The Mona Lisa is a visual representation of the ideal of happiness and the landscapes illustrated are very important. The middle distance, on level with the sitter's chest, is painted in warm colors. This is a humanized space complete with a winding road and bridge. This landscape represents the shift between the space of the sitter and the far distance, where the scenery becomes an uninhabited area of rocks and water which stretches to the horizon, which Leonardo has cleverly drawn at the level of the sitter's eyes. https://www.artble.com/artists/leonardo_da_vinci/paintings/mona_lisa

  28. Introduction to Diction I can analyze a text to determine how diction helps to communicate an author’s tone.

  29. Connotations Brainstorm product names that have a connotation that would draw in customers.

  30. What is the tone of this excerpt? It was A LOW, DULL, QUICK SOUND -- MUCH SUCH A SOUND AS A WATCH MAKES WHEN ENVELOPED IN COTTON. I gasped for breath, and yet the officers heard it not. I talked more quickly, more vehemently but the noise steadily increased. I arose and argued about trifles, in a high key and with violent gesticulations; but the noise steadily increased. Why WOULD they not be gone? I paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides, as if excited to fury by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily increased. O God! What COULD I do? I foamed -- I raved -- I swore! I swung the chair upon which I had been sitting, and grated it upon the boards, but the noise arose over all and continually increased. It grew louder -- louder -- louder! Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart Insane, Nervous, Guilty

  31. What is the tone of this excerpt? There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none. A clammy and intensely cold mist, it made its slow way through the air in ripples that visibly followed and overspread one another, as the waves of an unwholesome sea might do. It was dense enough to shut out everything from the light of the coach-lamps but these its own workings, and a few yards of road; and the reek of the labouring horses steamed into it, as if they had made it all. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens mysterious, secretive, ominous, or evil

  32. What is the tone of this excerpt? It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. Hemingway’s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place calm and peaceful

  33. Take a peek at paragraph 17 of “The Black Table is Still There” What is the tone in this excerpt?

  34. Diction Analysis I can analyze how diction communicates author’s purpose.

  35. Cartoon Analysis Using the cartoon, answer the following questions: • What is the cartoonist’s purpose? What is he trying to say to the audience? • What individual examples of diction help the cartoonist make his point? • Write two to three sentences analyzing the way diction is the tool to help the audience “get” the point. Begin with a topic sentence and then include the word(s) and your analysis.

  36. Quiz Corrections: Sorry- I must have been incredibly tired when making your latest vocab. quizzes. :( Create-A-Sentence #5- labyrinth, not about Inferences #2- Sometimes Nikki wakes up too early because the diaphanous curtains over the bedroom window do not… Antonyms #1- Change the italicized word to impotent

  37. Gayle Rosenwald Smith’s “The Wife-Beater” Sketch out SOAPS using this text. Then, answer the following questions: • What word or phrase is most important? • What is the most surprising statement in the text? • What is the most striking image or metaphor? • What would be another good title for this piece? • What additional points should be included in this text? • How would our daily lives be different without this concept or idea? *Complete the Diction Scavenger Hunt with this text for HOMEWORK!

  38. Write a brief, three-sentence (topic sentence, supporting detail, and elaboration) analysis using just one WORD as an example.

  39. Thesis Statement Construction I can construct a thesis statement that controls a rhetorical analysis essay.

  40. Differences in Connotation Describe the differences between the connotations of the following words: • Art-Craft • Gang-Club • Instrument-Tool • Intelligent-Smart • Lady-Woman

  41. Nancy Mairs “I am a cripple” Read the text. How does diction communicate the author’s purpose? Map out SOAPS using this text.

  42. Form groups of FOUR and discuss the purpose of this text, as you mapped out with SOAPS for homework. Agree to the purpose as a group and have one representative come up to the board and write it out.

  43. What are the primary and secondary tones of this text?

  44. What is a thesis? A debatable idea that controls a piece of writing

  45. Using Emily Prager’s, “Our Barbies, Ourselves”: Emily Prager’s ironic yet resolved tone reveal her passion for educating both men and women about body image in “Our Barbies, Ourselves.”

  46. Use Handout L to write a thesis statement for an analysis of the Mairs piece. Do the backside of this handout for homework!

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