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Analyzing Style as it Relates to Purpose

Analyzing Style as it Relates to Purpose. Vacation Practice. Directions. Review your Style PowerPoint from the past two weeks: Four Elements of Style . LDS---literary devices, diction, syntax. (OK, we have only gone over three so far!)

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Analyzing Style as it Relates to Purpose

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  1. Analyzing Style as it Relates to Purpose Vacation Practice

  2. Directions • Review your Style PowerPoint from the past two weeks: Four Elements of Style. LDS---literary devices, diction, syntax. (OK, we have only gone over three so far!) • Now, please read over the slides 3-19 in this PowerPoint all of which exemplify fantastic writing from a variety of genres. Keeping the author’s purpose in mind, choose one slide to analyze literary devices, one slide to analyze diction, one slide for syntax, and one slide to analyze all three. Print the four slides, handwrite the author’s or poet’s purpose in a complete sentence at the bottom of the paper, and do your handwritten note taking directly on the paper . Bring those marked–up slides with you on Monday , 3/19/12. • Thanks and have a great break. BP

  3. “High Tide in Tucson”Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another. Barbara Kingsolver

  4. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee • Meanwhile, the United States, thirsting for revenge, was prowling the country north and west of the Black Hills, killing Indians wherever they could be found. • Dee Brown

  5. Cannery Row • Doc awakened very slowly and clumsilylike a fat man getting out of a swimming pool. His mind broke the surface and fell back several times. • John Steinbeck

  6. Syntax: “President Woodrow Wilson Present an Ideal to the War Congress” While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear, and make very clear to all the world, what our motives and our objects are. Woodrow Wilson

  7. Of Mice and Men But George sat stiffly on the bank and looked at his right hand that had thrown the gun away. John Steinbeck

  8. The House on Mango Street When I am too sad and too skinny to keep keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so many bricks, then it is I look at trees. Sandra Cisneros

  9. Brave New World He had been prepared to lie, to bluster, to remain sullenly unresponsive, but, reassured by the good-humored intelligence of the Controller’s face, he decided to tell the truth, straightforwardly. Aldous Huxley

  10. “I Hear an Army Changing Upon the Land” I hear an army changing upon the land, And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees: Arrogant, in black armor, behind them stand, Disdaining the reins, with fluttering whips, the charioteers. James Joyce

  11. The Sound and the Fury I slowed still more, my shadow pacing me, dragging its head through the weeds that hid the fence. William Faulkner

  12. “The Black Cat” No sooner had the reverberation of my blows sunk into silence, then I was answered by a voice from within the tomb! - by a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and then quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman - a howl! - a wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell, conjointly from the throats of the damned in their agony and of the demons that exult in the damnation. Edgar Allan Poe

  13. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings • Pots rattled in the kitchen where Momma was frying corn cakes to go with vegetable soup for supper; and the homey sounds and scents cushioned me as I read of Jane Eyre in the cold English mansion of a colder English gentleman. • Maya Angelou

  14. Possession: A Romance • Her face was white and sharp and slightly gleaming in the candlelight, like bone. No hint of pink. And the hair. So fine, so pale, so much, crimped by its plaiting into springy zigzag tresses, clouding neck and shoulders, shining metallic in the candlelight, catching a hint, there it was, of green again, from the reflection of a large glazed cache-pot containing a vigorous sword-leafed fern. • A. S. Byatt

  15. Paradise Lost, Book IV, lines 327-330 • …then Satan first knew pain, • And writh’d him to and fro convolv’d; so sore • The grinding sword with discontinuous wound • Passed through him. • John Milton

  16. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Newts are the most common of salamanders. Their skin is a lighted green, like water in a sunlit pond, and rows of very right red dots line their backs. They have gills as larvae; as they grow they turn a luminescent red, lose their gills, and walk out of the water to spend a few years padding around in damp places on the forest floor. Their feet look like fingered baby hands, and they walk in the same leg patterns as all four-footed creatures - dogs, mules, and, for that matter, lesser pandas. Annie Dillard

  17. “Today” • This is earthquake • Weather! • Honor and Hunger • Walk lean Together. Langston Hughes

  18. Night • Twenty bodies were thrown out of our wagon. Then the train resumed its journey, leaving behind it a few hundred naked dead, deprived of burial, in the deep snow of a field n Poland. • Elie Wiesel

  19. Diction: “Sailing to Byzantium” An aged man is but a paltry thing/ A tattered coat upon a stick…. W. B. Yeats

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