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Understanding Voice in composition

Understanding Voice in composition. Mr. Kreher Referencing: Dean, Nancy.  Discovering voice : voice lessons for middle and high school . Gainesville, FL: Maupin House Pub, 2006. Print. What is voice?.

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Understanding Voice in composition

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  1. Understanding Voicein composition Mr. Kreher Referencing: Dean, Nancy. Discovering voice : voice lessons for middle and high school. Gainesville, FL: Maupin House Pub, 2006. Print.

  2. What is voice? • http://www.evangogh.org/images/paintings/self-portrait.jpg & http://uploads7.wikipaintings.org/images/vincent-van-gogh/self-portrait-with-bandaged-ear-1889-1.jpg

  3. Consider this sentence • The little pink fish swam upstream and died. • Rewrite the sentence and make it sad. • Rewrite the sentence and make it funny.

  4. What did you have to change to make it sad/funny?

  5. Elements of Voice • Diction – word choice • Detail • Figurative language – metaphor, simile, personification • Imagery • Syntax – the sentence structure / word order • Tone – author’s attitude

  6. Diction • Diction refers to the author’s choice of words • She looks around her house for her purse. • She rummages around her house for her purse. • He hung out in his house all summer. • He hunkered down in his house all summer.

  7. Tired words • Good • Nice • Pretty • Beautiful • Fine • Bad • Thing • Really • Very • Terrible • Wonderful • A lot

  8. A redheaded woman was there with Trout. Kate could see her rummaging through the cabin, dumping drawers and knocking things from the shelves of cabinets. • -Louis Sachar, Holes • How is it different than • Kate could see her searching through the cabin, emptying drawers and taking things off of the shelves of cabinets. • Write a sentence a small boy making a mess in a restaurant. Choose words that are clear, concise, and concrete.

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