Begin by putting your FIRST NAME AND LAST INITIAL (not your complete last name), and LA class.
List the story and book titles and author.
Then answer one of the questions below (be sure to label it A, B or C on your paper):
A. Write a constructed response that explains how stories from your book illustrate one of the following terms: characterization, foreshadowing, dramatic or situational irony. Feel free to cover more than one. Give lots of evidence from the text.
B. Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
A 4 on the rubric will have these attributes:
A complete post (including your name and LA Class) that stays focused on answering the question.
Answer is insightful and thoughtful.
Examples are used appropriately and are clearly explained.
Response reflects a complete and well written constructed response.
It is well written with no spelling or grammatical errors.
Again, do not forget to put your name and LA class (A, B, C or D) in your post
78 comments:
By Solena.C
The Eternal Kiss,
In my book, there is a bunch of vampires and they are in a relationship. It is also about how vampires are creatures that lust for blood while they are trying to love their partner.
So in the first chapter this girl Moth is a newbie vampire and she has a “Sire” ( who changed her into a Vampire) Theo and he wants her to go and get this vase form his enemy, and to me that seems very rude I mean why can't he just go get it himself. So poor Moth goes and meets this Vampire hunter and he tried to kill her by starving her and cutting her with a wooden stake. She ends up getting away but she feels betrayed by her true love.
So she goes back to her Boyfriend and gives Theo the vase. She goes to this town named “ColdTown”, And she trades herself to get out her friends out of the Vampire lurking town.
So I think that her story is sad but she was filled with Blood Lust so she could get whatever she wanted for her blood. “So in this story, I thought it was very sketchy that he wanted only her to do the job so I thought that if he couldn't do it himself then is he scared of something and sure he was this number one vampire hunter”.
The next chapter is my favorite because Hannah was this ordinary girl who really didn't have a life, but she also lived on an island so she couldn't have any friends even if she wanted to. One night she meets this vampire that “Claims” to live in her home, so she gets very freaked out that this boy is in front of her bed. He doesn't really talk to her about anything except how he thought that this was his house. So she decides to talk to him and she finds out he is running from this Vampire that wants him dead, So she is freaking out because this Vampire wants him dead so he might come to her home to get to him. He says to her that he can beat him if he had any blood to fight him. SO she decides that she doesn't want him to be killed so she gives him her blood and off he went. So in this story, there is some foreshadowing, “So when he claimed to live in her home I thought well maybe this is running from something and just wanted a place to stay.” IN this story it also has a lot of dramatic ironies that I can tell from. This story when it says that she had to think about her choice to help this Vampire I really chuckled because it is just that this story is very dramatic and I really liked it.
SO, in conclusion, it has a lot of Foreshadowing and Dramatic Irony. But it is also about Vampires I would expect a lot of Drama so I really liked it. ANd I'm getting ready for the next book so I can write it again and just remember all of the fun in this book
Georgia K
LA B
The book I read was named,”One more Time” by B.J Novak and this book had a lot of situational irony and characterization in it.One example of the situational irony is on page 48, and in the story the principal deiced, since everyone hated math in the school he just got rid of it. This is an example of situational irony because this is not what would normally happen when students didn't like something,the principal would usually try to make it better not completely get rid of it. The next example in the book was on page 14, when this young man takes a tour in a museum and the tour guide said something about the dark ages and he say to the big tour group knows nothing about it. But the young man had a feeling that he did, and the man giving the tour did but now one knew except for himslef.So he went and told what he knew to the boy and the boy promised not to tell anyone. But the situational irony of the story is that the boy went home and told all of his friends. This is situational irony because usually when someone promises that he won’t tell anyone means he won’t tell anyone, but yet he did.
The next part of my story that was really helpful and interesting was there was a lot of characterization in his stories.On page 3,The story starts out with the exposition and then turns in too characterization. For example,”The hare gained weight,then lost weight; turned into religion ,then another scientific religion.” and “...Athletic humiliation…” In this quote it develops the character because it's describing what he is feeling and looking like in the story. From just this two quotes the person reading this story then knows that the protagonist is the hare and he is athletically embarrassed. In the next example on page 34, and in this story it explains that John is an author that is in the newspaper and gets question why is his story is called,” Something.” The reason that I know that john is a good and respectful person is because of the characterization. “My apologies,” ,”..he put on a pot of coffee for his beautiful wife..” This explains that he is a good person because of this because the author helped us develop this character.
Emily T
La B
Question 1
In the book “Dare To Be Scared 4’’ the author gives a lot of foreshadowing, and irony in the book. For example on page 11 the text states that “ For no particular reason, he hung back, not wanting to overtake the retreating figure.” This is an example of foreshadowing because the quote is explaining how the dog and his owner knew that the ‘‘retreating figure’’ wasn’t something they wanted to be around, the author showed this by using descriptive words, and upcoming clues for the next event that was going to happen. Another example of foreshadowing is on page 5 the text states ‘’Children were warned in particular,, never to use the railway as a shortcut. This is an example of foreshadowing because the author gives us an understanding that the railway should never be used as a shortcut, so when the owner and his dog used the railway the author, and audience and everyone knew that it wasn’t the best way to go. The author gave keywords such as the word “never” as used in italics. Also on page 5 with that same quote, there is situational irony because you would have never expected the owner and his dog to use the railway as a shortcut home because they know that the railway was haunted, but they still decided to take that shortcut home. This is an example of situational irony because situational irony means that your expectations of what are going to happen turns out to be the opposite of what happens, and that is exactly what happened here. Another example of irony is on page 5 again, the text states “ But no kid would go near the railroad tracks after sunset.” This is an example of situational irony because you would have never expected them to go to the railway after sunset, especially after all of the ghost stories they heard about the railway. An example of dramatic irony is also on page 5 when the author states that Gabe thinks he's safe but the audience knows that he is not going to be safe. Some reasons for that is when the author uses keywords to describe the railway you wouldn't expect someone to want to go there. Overall there is a lot of irony (dramatic and situational), and foreshadowing used in this book “ Dare To Be Scared 4.”
Jacob w.
La B
Favorite mystery stories
Miss hinch by henry S. Harrison
The gold bug by edgar allan poe
Calloway's code by O. Henry
The adventure of the blue carbuncle by A. Conan doyle
One alaska night by barrett willoughby
Hunter's moon by anthony wilson
The red headed league by A. Conan doyle
These short stories all have one thing in common, foreshadowing. In miss hinch, a man was constantly trying to slow down his companion and wipe parts of a ‘disguise’ at first you would not notice it but the companion was a murderer and the man was trying to stall for the cops. The other stories we're quite similar, leaving hints and clues for the reader to follow. In, the gold bug, the writer repeatedly emptied the same words. Also in Calloway's code, and hunters moon. Also the stories had the own little literature devices that could be said. In miss Hinch the was some crazy situational irony when the man turned out to be the murderer in disguise and was trying to kill the companion who was really a detective in disguise. In the stories, the gold bug, hunters moon, and in the red headed league there was a lot of characterization, explaining the characters to the point we're a reader would know exactly what the characters looked like. inconclushion these stories all had foreshadowing but also other literary devices were to be used.
Zachary R. LA: B
In the book Night Frights by J.B. Stamper, there were 13 scary stories and one of them were Bloody Mary. It was about these three girls were having a sleepover and they were telling ghost stories. They were saying that if you say Bloody Mary three times in the mirror she would appear. The three girls were going to bed, but one girl was missing they thought that she had went to get a drink so they went to bed. What they didn’t know but we knew was that, the missing girl went to the bathroom and said what the ghost story said. She chanted “Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary,” 3 times and she was pulled into the mirror and was gone forever. That was Dramatic Irony: when we knows something that the character in the book doesn’t know.
Another one was Graveyard Danger. This story shows some drama terms and situational irony. There’s this kid who is with a group of friends and is dared to to walk in the graveyard at night and in the dark with a flashlight. He goes in and walks around and finds a speech on the ground. He chants the words: Rise up bloody bones, rise up. They all rise up except one. He picks up one of the skeletons’ bones and the skull says: “Give me back my bones or you’ll be sorry.”
The boy says “No” Since the boy did not give the bones back he is dead because all the skeletons killed him because 1, he did not give back the bones and 2, he was one sacred land.
Corbin S. LA B
A.)
A1.) Foreshadowing was found frequently in the story, The Snow Shoers by George R. Stewart. An example of this is the quote from the text, “They had marched half-mad with hunger, what strange thoughts had begun to grow in their minds?”
(pgs. 6-7)
This shows a sort of cannibalistic scene, and this was proven later on in the story,”...As the need came, and mule. He might eat bear and dog, and even coyote and owl, he might also - as the relentless logic drove on - yes, man could eat man.” (pgs. 8-9)
A2.) Irony is commonly found in the short story named, The Other Side of Luck, by Greg Child. In the matter of fact, Situational Irony is found. Here is an example from the text, ”I deem it safe, but at the very moment I assure pete it is so and move forward, the surface gives way with a crash.” (pgs. 24-25) - This is Situational Irony because When The narrator thought it was safe to walk, the opposite happens and the icy floor gives way.
A metaphor example is immediately after, “I underestimate in the sudden quiet that follows smashed mirrors and glassware” (pgs. 24-25) -This is a metaphor because It is comparing the falling ice to broken glassware. (without saying like or as)
Stories:
The Snow Shoers, George R. Stewart
The Other Side of Luck, Greg Child
These two books show foreshadowing by giving violent imagery to keep a suspenseful mood, Say cannibalism For instance, in any book this would give a dramatic mood any day because it is an unfortunate thing to happen to somebody, And nobody wants it to happen to them. But by the reader putting themselves into the main character(s) They get a stronger mood which in return builds suspense and gets the reader thinking, “what will happen next?”
This makes foreshadowing in a book, where the reader can read a text and predict what will happen next, Then Irony comes in to screw it up. Irony gives us the opposite of what the reader thinks will happen, “So no cannibalism?” After hearing everybody’s stomach rumble and they all look at each other grasping their knives.
Daymen s. LA:B
Author:cynthia Rylant Book: every living thing
The first thing is that Amelia has been begging for a fish from her parents and her parents finally got the fish for her so that is a sign of her being responsible for that fish. They got the goldfish from an old man at an aquarium. So I think that it will be situational irony.
The next short story that I will do is called ‘A bad road for cats’ and I think that it will be dramatic irony because a woman lost her cat named Louis and she went all the way down her road wasn’t there and she looked all around for the cat also the cat was orange and white and she found it at a gas station the cat just went right up to her and she said “I am going to name you louis so she had a flashback she named the cat after her grandpa.
The last one is called safe and that is about a boy going to see the cows and this boy was in sixth grade and he lived in an apartment with his mom and dad and every day he came to see the cows every day after to see the cows. When he was older he got one of the cows his name was ben and the was his favorite cow so he brought home with him. I think that it would situational irony because he saw that cow every day since 6th grade.
So in conclusion I think that this book has a lot of different irony and it has a lot of details.
Capone D. LA B
The Starry Rift by Jonathan Strahan
The story cheats illustrates situational irony because the protagonist and her brother Dev are in an virtual world and were sent to capture the hackers or cheaters in the game but when they were about to capture the hackers they got trapped by the cheaters and sent to a different world that wasn't virtual. The reason as to why this is situational irony is because they got caught by the people they were supposed to catch.
Emily H Class B
Greenkid by Jane Yolen
Golden Fur by Midori Snyder
Chambers of the Heart by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Little Red and the Big Bad by Will Shetterly
The Fish’s Story by Pat York
The Children of Tilford by Christopher Rowe
The Girl in the Attic by Lois Metzger
The Harp That Sang by Gregory Frost
The first one foreshadowing because “My son, I am not well, for this life in the desert without your father has grieved me more than I can say. You are almost a man now, and so I am ready at last to join him. The servants will beg you to return home, but do not,for what would be dangerous. Your father’s enemy sits on the throne, and his men still search for you. You must cross the desert and find your future elsewhere.” That tells foreshadowing because that means that she is going to die and foreshadowing is hints and clues on what’s going to happen next.
The second one is characterization because for Sally she is the oldest and she is twelve, tall and straight with hair the color of the sun and fine as corn silk and it talks what Toby and Molly look like. This is characterization because it talks about what they look.
B. These short stories are in third person. It’s third person because it has mostly she and he.
Michael Bissonnette La B
My book illustrates foreshadowing. It does this because the author gives hints on the first or second page about what is going to happen in the book. Then, the things that the author hints about on the first or second page happen on the last or second to last page of the story. For example, in the story the author says, “English grammar is governed by the rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!”This foreshadows that the main character might discover something new about his machine.
Also, my book illustrates foreshadowing because the author used detailed words in the book to show what is going to happen next in the story. For example, the author used phrases like “deadly cold” and “ the wind was like a flat blade on his cheeks” to foreshadow that the main character might get hurt or frostbit by the horrible snow storm.
Lastly, my book illustrates foreshadowing because the author gets the reader thinking that something big is going to happen in the book by putting in hints about what is going to happen next in the story.. For example, in the story the author has the main character say, “ In five days the baby will be double its weight!” This gets the reader thinking that the royal jelly will help the baby and the baby will gain a tremendous amount of weight.
In conclusion, the author foreshadows numerous times in my book in several ways.
Kevin botelho la: C
More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
In the short story book More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark it uses dramatic irony. Some examples of that is in the story Rings On Her Finger “may she always rest in peace the husband said. But she didnt, late that night a grave robber with a shovel began to dig her up” but the husband didn't that was going on, also in the story The Bride “as she was climbing into the trunk the lid came down and cracked her on the head” “the whole village was looking for her” but we knew where she was so its dramatic irony. In the story Sounds fisherman that have been caught in a storm has to stay in a house we knew was haunted but the fisherman didnt.
Ethan R LA C
My book shows a lot of foreshadowing on a story called the haunted house. In this chapter a preacher wanted to go to a what is told to be an haunted house. He is foreshadowing its is going to be haunted by saying that there are many stories people have told that its so haunted that they couldn’t even last the whole time staying there.
Also in this story there is situational irony, this situational irony comes in when the ghost or haunt is coming up the stairs from the basement and opens the door, the haunt doesn’t to to scare and or kill the man but is asked to do some tasks to put her soul to rest. Some tasks lead to the man that killed her and others were to dig up her remains and have an actual funeral.
Sophie P
LA C
What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything?
By: Avi illustrated by: Tracy Mitchell
-Short story Number one
This book was very good overall i would recommend it. The author was very good at describing the characters so you can infer what will happen next, Although there was a shocking ending. The story takes place on an average day, walking home from school the main character, Willy and his mom(side character) see a man that appears to be homeless, his mom was insisting that he wouldn't look although Will’s curios side may have gotten the better of him. He was asking all sorts of questions that his mom refused to answer. All she kept saying is that they have no money because their father left. Although it does seem like they have money, it kind of infers that they do only the mom doesn't want to talk about it and is trying to scare Willy so they won't end up like that. They are finally at their apartment and Willy’s mom gave him a piece of cake and Willy wouldn't let the topic go. All his mom keeps saying is that they don't have any money, and willy wants to know if she and the man are “unhappy”,”How much money do we have?”
“Not Enough”
“Is that why you're Unhappy?”
“Willy. Do your homework”
Although willy still wasn't pleased, he went to his window and watched the man continued to beg. There is also, some foreshadowing. Willy let the curiosity get the better of him. He knew his mom wasnt home she was still at work. So, he went over to the man and was detemand to talk to the man about unhappeniss.
“I dont have anymoney, can i still talk to you?” willy said
The man only looked up and looked back down but willy contued to talk.
‘My mother,” “willy said,” “said you were unhappy,is that true?”
The man only shook his haed and ignored him. After alittle while of there conversational the homeless man said something that started to maybe think,”Not just someone.You.” After reading that and looking back where the mom didnt evan want willy to look at the man, i began to think, could this man possibly his dad? Willy went back to his apartment and his mom soon retured home from work. Willy admited to talking to the man and his mom freaked out , because he was talking to a stange man and was home alone. Then, there was a very shocking ending. Willy went back to apoligize to the man, but he want there. His mom had……
Characterization: in “hold him, tabb”, he said that the man was dressed in all white cloths
Foreshadowing: “in hold him, tabb” tabb said, “what a bunch of fools those other fellows are to have stayed down with the horses, when they could have stayed in here, just as warm and comfortable as me!” which kind of foreshadows that the ghost or oster was going to go after him. You can kind of tell by his cocky attitude.
Characterization: in “the witches’ eyes” don pedro said that the twins wore skirts made out of stiff black material and had identical fans
Foreshadowing: the twins always tell don pedro to leave before midnight so it kind of gives you a clue or tries to tell you that they are witches.
Characterization: in “the duppy” he describes the duppy as a white bubble coming out of the grave, and that there was a swirling shadow inside
Foreshadowing: you can tell that by the time the duppy came out from the grave you could foreshadow that it was going to try to get jubal and attack him.
Characterization:in “two snakes” he described the man to wear a white robe
Foreshadowing: it is very obvious that after one year the hunter would still go back there to hunt without knowing what would happen
Foreshadowing: in “the draug” they heard cries from the sea but said it was just a sea bird but its obvious that it’s actually the draug, and when the draug dives into the water you know that its going to go back up because it wont give up that easily
Jessie B
Question 1 La C
Based on the book Hans Anderson, and His classic fairy tales by Hans Anderson. Many stories in the book, are fairy tales which have many foreshadowing , theme , situational irony , dialect , stereotypes and onomatopoeia. For example in “The princess and the pea” there was foreshadowing, hints or clues to the end of the story because over twenty mattresses she could still feel the pea and who ever did feel the pea was a real princess. Also in “The Tinderbox’’ there is situational irony because the brave soldier believed in the old which by going to the tree and going through the passageway to get to the 3 doors there's a chest in each of the room and a different sizes of dogs. Small at first but will get bigger as you get to the third door in the rooms there are coins . Its situational irony because we thought that something bad was gonna happen to the solder because a old scary witch give him the passageway to get money why would a brave strong soldier listen to a which i would've not expected that.
Morgan W. L.A:C Title: The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway By: Ernest Hemingway
Hills like White Elephants
A: This story from the book illustrate foreshadowing. In this story a young woman is pregnant her and her husband do not want to have the baby. Throughout the story they are both talking about the hills looking like white elephants. In their mind white elephants mean to be happy and joyful. When they are both done with their drinks the woman said the hill don’t really look like white elephants. This indicates that she is not happy with just letting the baby go she wants to keep it. Later in the story both talk about the good and the bad about the baby. The woman really wants the baby and the man doen’t. In the end the end up keeping the baby.
Cat in the Rain
A: In the story the book illustrates characterization. There is a young American woman and her husband on vacation in Italy. It is raining out and there is a little kitten in the rain. She goes down to try to find the cat. The cat is gone. The husband doesn’t like that she likes to explore he thinks that she should go sit down and read a book. This character has short brown hair and wants long hair. She is very thoughtful for thinking about the cat. Lastly she wants to explore different thing.
Hattie m la c
Speaking ill of the dead:jerks in new mexico history
the book i read is about outlaws and killers in new mexico including
the true story of billy the kid,
bob olinger a murdering officer and one of billy's last victims,
bronco bill walters whose hidden treasure has never been found,
and many more outlaws and people caught in the crossfire
lots of the stories have situational irony such as walters a famous criminals death being by falling off a windmill at a old age or billy the kid not being a kid but in his 30's and his name not even being billy and olinger was a sheriff who gambled drank and shot innocent people
Hattie m la c
Speaking ill of the dead:jerks in new mexico history
the book i read is about outlaws and killers in new mexico including
the true story of billy the kid,
bob olinger a murdering officer and one of billy's last victims,
bronco bill walters whose hidden treasure has never been found,
and many more outlaws and people caught in the crossfire
lots of the stories have situational irony such as walters a famous criminals death being by falling off a windmill at a old age or billy the kid not being a kid but in his 30's and his name not even being billy and olinger was a sheriff who gambled drank and shot innocent people
In the book, “Chicken Soup for a Teenage Soul III” , the authors use Situational Irony. Situational Irony is when you, the reader thinks that one thing is going to happen but the total opposite happens. In the story, “When Forever ends”, a girl named Molly got a note in her locker , that her best friend, Katie, doesn’t want to be friends anymore. Katie found a new friend that didn’t like Molly. The reader thought that Katie wrote the note but as it turns out Katie’s new friend wrote it.
In addition, “Loving Yourself First,” it is Valentine's day at an high school and the student can buy flowers. A boy named Harlan wanted flowers but when announcing the people who received , they didn’t say his. Then he finally got one. The reader thought that he probably got it from a girl but it was actually from himself.
To conclude, “Chicken Soup for a Teenage Soul III” , authors use Situational Irony.
Joseph D LA C
GUYS READ FUNNY BUSINESS EDITED BY JON SCIESZKA
STORY TITLE: BEST OF FRIENDS BY MAC BARNETT
In the Short story “Best Of Friends” i noticed that the author Mac Barnett uses a lot of foreshadowing. He also uses some imagery and he also uses a static character and a Dynamic Character . The story is about this very unpopular kid named Ernest to get more attention Ernest says that he had won the Nesquik Sweepstakes. Nesquik is a Chocolate milk factory all the kids love the commercial that the factory has it shows kids sliding down chocolate water slides. Ernest says he won the sweepstakes so he can go down the slide and he can bring a friend. The author uses foreshadowing because Ernest asked the main character Dean to go to the Factory with him Dean asked Ernest not to tell anybody about the Nesquik sweepstakes because then everybody is going to want to go. Later in the book when the school day was over all the kids were saying things like “ Later Ernest” and “bye dude” thee kids were never nice to Ernest and now something was up with them because they were being nice to Ernest. The author also uses some imagery this really helped me understand the characters “ he had thick lensed glasses and twin deposits of spit lined either side of his mouth like vanilla frosting.” the author also uses Static and Dynamic Characters Dean was also nice to Ernest “sometimes i felt bad for Ernest i tried to be nice to him” also Ernest was also a dodgy charter.
Shea Caton LA C 9/29/17
In my book Making Bombs for Hitler the author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch uses a lot of dialog in her story almost every page had some type of conversation on it. Also in her story she uses a lot of metaphors and sometimes some similes. The book has a static character a protagonist and also a antagonist.
Throughout the entire story the author uses a lot of dialog there is many sentences with characters in this entire book from beginning to end. The characters have a lot of conversations with many other people like in this Lida’s cell mate next store is going to give up her religion which is jewish but then dies from starvation. When she is talking about that Lida says, “If you don’t live then who will tell your story when the war is over.” Also she looses a little bit of foreshadowing there cause later on Zenia later dies. Also she uses a lot of long lengthy conversations like when her and Juli are hiding from soldiers and she says, “ Juli, do you think they can hear us,” “ I don't think so,” says Juli.
In the book i really saw that the author very well explained there characters and the way that they acted. Like in the story Lida is the protagonist and throughout the story she is trying to save her younger sister who makes bombs for Hitler and also get out of the prison in side of the factory alive. The static character in this story is Lida’s little sister Larissa she stays the same throughout the whole story never changing and waiting to get saved by her sister or waiting for the war to end. Lastly there is the antagonist and that is the warden and she is the antagonist because she is preventing the protagonist from trying to do what she has to and that is saving her sister.
Some of the similes and metaphors are like when Lida is getting taken to the factory where the bombs are made and she says “ The mountains here are sharp and rocky they are nothing like the beautiful mountains at home. Also Lida says,” the bombs jump into the heavens like the devil's weapon.” While Larissa is making bombs the author says,” her hands move as quick as humming birds collecting there nector.” Then at the end of the book Lida says,” The grass is as beautiful as the green leaves on a tree in a brand new spring day.”
Gianna C Aesops Fables LA C
J. Cimmerson
The author of my book J. Cimmerson , uses many different aspects in his book, Aesop’s Fables . One aspect he uses often is descriptive word choice. When he talks about or explains a animal or the setting , he explains it well. Another choice he makes in this book is when he says a character's name he says after how their feeling. For example , on page 100 , title “Jupiter and the Camel,” “Jupiter looked at him in disgust ,” In most of the books i read it doesn't explain like that how the characters are feeling when the say something. Another example is on page 176 , title The crow and the Pitcher , he stated “i'll have some absolutely delicious water to drink.” He really tried to tell the audience how he was feeling.
Another style choice i noticed from the book was that there wasn't very a lot of dialogue in the book. Jimmerson must have chosen to write his book in third person point of view. Throughout all the stories there are about on sentence of dialogue in it. That is just when the narrator talk about the character and they answer. A example to prove this is on page 68 , story named The Stag Looking into the Water, “Oh what magnificent antlers i have ,said proudly.” The narrator was talking about a young stag coming to a stream and the character said how nice his antlers are.
The last style choice , is having the moral of the story or the theme on the bottom of the page on each story. This was a great idea because it tells people what they should be learning from it , and teaches people new lessons . For example , on page 46 , story named “The Sow and the Wolf “ has a moral that says “Beware an enemy offering help” It teaches the audience what lesson they learned and should remember from reading the story.
Ethan B LA C
Escape Children of the Holocaust
Based on the story that i read there are many stories that illustrate the terms but i feel that there is manly dramatic and situational irony, For example the nine year old Halina litman says “i think she suspects that we’re not who we say we are. She wants to send me to a special catechism classes so i can receive communion.” Which means that she was lying to Mrs .Peszke which she is works with the priest and she think that Halina is a German but she's Jewish. An example of dramatic irony is when one of Halins friend gideon woke up one night and saw campfires above and below the mountains which had attracted enemies and other intruders that knew that they were all jews gideon heard guns and explosives coming closer to him by the minute.
Katie H LA C
Once Upon Now
By: J.M Butler, Christine Owen, Tammy Oja, and Ali Novak,
This short story book had a lots of different authors with a different style. One short story I read from the book was “Why Yes, Bluebeard, I’d Love To.” This story was about this a young woman named Emeline. She had a friend named Anna and she was going to set Emeline up with this great and guy and she is going to marry him and live happy ever after. But things do not always go as planned. Emiline meets her dream guy and the first 5 minutes they are together he asks her to marry him! And she says yes! So he brings her to the old run down chateau that is going to be there house that they live in when they get married. And when they get there Bluebeard said to can not go into the West Wing! Which of course she goes into anyways she finds out he is a killer! This story is in 3rd person, the protagonist is Emeline and the antagonist is Bluebeard. There are lots of Imagery in the story to really get the clear picture in your mind of what’s happening. For example, “The southern portion of the roof was buckled, and nodules of mold grew in clusters around the indentations. Most of the roof had shifted somewhat to the east.” Another example is “Blackend blood streaked the walls, mingling with green and black mold. Small congealing pools of blood dripped and drained across the floor, setting into the dips and crevices. The author used anomopeia to show the action of what’s happening. For example, “drip, drip.” That is one author’s style. Another short story I read was “The Friend Zone Promposal” This story is written in 3rd person. This story is about two best friend a boy and a girl.
Ethan B LA C
Escape Children of the Holocaust
Based on the story that i read there are many stories that illustrate the terms but i feel that there is manly dramatic and situational irony, For example the nine year old Halina litman says “i think she suspects that we’re not who we say we are. She wants to send me to a special catechism classes so i can receive communion.” Which means that she was lying to Mrs .Peszke which she is works with the priest and she think that Halina is a German but she's Jewish. An example of dramatic irony is when one of Halins friend gideon woke up one night and saw campfires above and below the mountains which had attracted enemies and other intruders that knew that they were all jews gideon heard guns and explosives coming closer to him by the minute.
Jed A L.A C
Demons And Shadows by Robert Westall
Question B. There were many aspects that the author used in the book. Robert Westall was the one who wrote all of the stories. For example, he used a lot of similes, Characterization, and Personification. For example, one page 15 of the story “Rachel And The Angel,” it says “ It was not just terribly powerful but terribly going wrong. Like an elephant running amok. This is a simile because it is a comparison using like or as. Also, on the same story, on page 7, it states that “the tower base was friendly. This is personification, because the author is giving a non-human object human traits. For example, a tower base can’t be friendly. It can’t speaks and has no emotions. Another simile on this story was on page 19. It states that “He looked comical, like a miniature black version of a lifeboat cox’n off a box of matches. This is a simile because he is using the word like in a comparison
On page 33 of the story “The Graveyard Shift, the author uses a lot of characterization. He describes Cem Robson (the protagonist) as a “shy, slightly gangling man with wide shoulders and long legs, looking younger than his 50 years, with his tanned face, oddly innocent, faded blue eyes, and white widely spaced teeth.” This description and characterization helps the reader paint a picture in their head and develop an emotional relationship with the person. This helps the reader really understand how the character(s) are feeling. You can almost feel what they are, if that is fright, sadness, anger, happiness, etc… On page 42 of The Graveyard Shift, he explains that Dr. Millwrick (the antagonist) Had a little red face, with a little black mustache. This helps give the reader an idea of what he looks like.
On page 183, of “The Creatures In The House,” it states that the beach huts huddled empty in the rain. This is personification, because again, He is giving an object that is non- living human traits. Huts can huddle. There isn’t really too much characterization in this story, but the main character, or the protagonist, Sally. This story was rather, short. So, there isn’t much similes, and other vocabulary terms. But, In this story, there is a lot of dialogue, but there is also a lot of description. It’s around 50/50, in my opinion.
September Blog
CJ V La D
Robert westall used a lot of foreshadowing you could flip to one page find it. One of my favorites comes from the first story when he says the old lady had “banana legs” and couldn't walk very well. That came into play later in the book when the “monster of a man” was coming after her and she couldn't run do to her bad legs. Similes were common also on the very next page as the foreshadowing the author uses this simile “ She looked exactly as he imagined.” He also ads some dramatic feel almost like you're in the movies. It's just the way he puts his dramatic scenes makes it very intense. In one of the scenes he uses irony by making the guy after the man his best friend which was a huge plot twist and just one of the few ways he makes it dramatic. In conclusion the author writing style ha a lot of foreshadowing and it is very dramatic
Riley H LA d
This book, “haunted houses” has lots of foreshadowing in the texts. For example, on page 139, it says “There will be ghosts, or even worse.” With this being said, they predict something bad will happen in the near future. An example of situational irony is also on page 139. The people in the book are talking about how black cats have relation with witches. They later see a black cat and get scared. Another example of foreshadowing is on page 159. There were people talking about a haunted fire station and one man predicts he will see ghosts of the passed firemen. On page 174, a boy believes there is a rabbit near him so he tries not moving just in case. After a few moments, a bunny pops up and leaps around.
Jack.s september 29th
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Ghosts, by hans holzer
A: in the book i read for september there was a lot of foreshadowing and it was almost in every short story i read. one of the examples of foreshadowing that i found was “local legends have had the house haunted for many years.” on page 59 paragraph 4. This clue of foreshadowing might lead up to something happening to the person like seeing a ghost or the ghost ends up doing something to him or her. Another piece of evidence that shows foreshadowing is “mrs.fosdick seemed a bit pale.’’ on pg 60 paragraph 6. This shows that mrs.fosdick might have known the person/ghost.
B: one of the ways hans holzer wrote was that he gave a lot of suspense to all the stories which i really enjoyed because it made the book a lot more scary and made me want to read more. Another way hans holzer wrote was in third person because the narrator was always in the story which made me have a lot more understanding on what was going on during the story’s. The last thing i noticed about how hans holzer wrote was that he used a lot of foreshadowing which also makes the book really interesting because there are so many things that can be the outcome but you don’t which one it will be.
Faceson H
In the first short story the author Mike Lupica does a really good job of characterization for example,This tough kid jayson that's twelve years old from the terrible part of moland, north carolina and he gets sent away with his foster parents and is a phenom when it comes to basketball.This is an example of characterization he describes how much this kid jayson has been through over the years.
The situation irony is that u would think after his parents die and foster parents take him in they would care for him and treat him like there own, but the complete opposite happens and the author does a great job getting that across in the first story because i could identify right away what he was doing.
Lastly a great aspect of the the author is he likes to ua a lot of simile for example in pages 1 ,3 he said on the page 1 was ‘The walls of Jayson apartment would shake so bad it felt like an earthquake.”Another quote was “how could no one ever stay in front of you?” “Like guarding Already happened.”
Avery R LA D
B. Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
The book that i read was called you never did learn to knock selected by Bel Mooney and most of the stories where about the girls and there mothers. The writers style that is storie that would happen for example in the first storie the girls real mother was to young to have the child so she gave the child to her older sister but later on in the story her aunt told her that she was her real mother. In the second storie the girl wated to be with the cool kids and cause drama. Another styal of there writing is there is a lot of diolog in the writing.
Faceson H
B. Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
In the first short story the author Mike Lupica does a really good job of characterization for example,This tough kid jayson that's twelve years old from the terrible part of moland, north carolina and he gets sent away with his foster parents and is a phenom when it comes to basketball.This is an example of characterization he describes how much this kid jayson has been through over the years.
The situation irony is that u would think after his parents die and foster parents take him in they would care for him and treat him like there own, but the complete opposite happens and the author does a great job getting that across in the first story because i could identify right away what he was doing.
Lastly a great aspect of the the author is he likes to ua a lot of simile for example in pages 1 ,3 he said on the page 1 was ‘The walls of Jayson apartment would shake so bad it felt like an earthquake.”Another quote was “how could no one ever stay in front of you?” “Like guarding Already happened.”
Mikayla H.
LA D
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by F. Kafka
In my book, the author uses a lot of imagery. He had a way of describing things so when I read it, is was as if I was there. For example, in the first story, he wrote, “ She was wearing her black dress with the transparent lace top over the shoulders- the crescent of her petticoat showed under it- from the lower edge of which the silk hung down in a beautifully cut riffle.” This was his way of describing what one of the characters looked like. I felt like as I was reading, I could imagine her standing in front of me. Another example of imagery was in the story A Country Doctor on page 136. It says, “ …. A seriously ill patient was waiting for me in a village ten miles off; a thick blizzard of snow filled all the wide spaces in between him and me; I had a gig, a light gig with big wheels, exactly right for our country roads; muffled in furs, my bag of instruments in my hand…. .” As he was describing the country doctors journey of ten miles in the snow, I felt like I could feel the cold wind on my face.
Another thing Kafka used was similes. For example, in his story A Dream, he says, “.. but he glided along one of them as if on a rushing stream with unshaken poise and balance.” He was comparing a oddly shaped path to a rushing stream.
Trinity A. La:D
The book i read was, “Twisted Fairy Tales,” by Mara Mchugh
B. In this book of short stories the way she writes each of them is very dark and twisted. One thing that stood out to me is how she uses a lot of imagery to make reader see and feel like its real life. One of my favorite fairy tales that she twisted was Snow White which twisted around to make it seem so evil. For example if u would of just watched the movie or read the book you would've just thought that the poisonous apple from the witch was the bad part but what u did not know is that the 7 dwarfs was once 8 and that witch had killed one and that snow white almost died from the witch and that prince charming isn't as charming as u think. Another example is how the seven dwarfs almost set her up to get a spell done on her to make her the new 8th member.
Another thing is she didn't use a lot of dialect everyone sounded the same with no accent or that much dialogue. She kinda based the whole story around imagery and description but when she did use dialogue it was very long and twisted for example, (i'm not completely sure if this is what she said but it was very close to it.), “ Rapunzel, what did i tell u about bringing people up here i'm not gonna have to cut your hair off and blind the young man,” this quote was from the Rapunzel,part of the story. As you can see the author made the speaker very descriptive when she talked kinda like u could imagine what was gonna happen before it happens.
Which brought me to another very common thing she does she uses a lot of foreshadowing kinda so u can see what's coming to another character before it comes or happens. Going back to the Snow White portion u can tell that the queen is gonna do something to her cause cause of how she was mad and upset and how she would tell the mirror i want her dead. Which kinda makes u think like is she gonna kill her, is gonna let her live, or is she gonna leave it alone. Which she obvoiusly didnt. But these are the three main things the author did most that stood out to me.
Mariah r L.a D 9/29/17
In the short story book Zlateh The Goat And Other Stories they use a lot of Situational irony. In the story Zlateh The Goat they were going to sell the Zlateh for money but a very big storm happened when the 12 year old son was bringing her to the butcher and they had to stay in a stack of hay for three days and then went home and they keep Zlateh. This is situational cause you would think that they would have sold the goat but instead they kept her and everyone was happy. Also another example from the book is in the story The Mixed-Up Feet And The Silly BrideGroom where the girl family gives her fiance gifts but he does the wrong thing with them and either loses or breaks them. So everytime he visits and they ask about the gift he would tell them and they would tell him how to keep it and give him another gift that he would lose or break. This is situational irony because you think he would learn from his mistakes but he keeps doing the same thing wrong.
The writer uses a lot of description of the surroundings and people in many of the stories. One example is from Fool’s Paradise is “Atzel was a tall boy with black hair and black eyes. Aksah was somewhat shorter than Atzel and she had blue eyes and golden hair.” Another thing the author has is some foreshadowing in the story Zlateh The Goat. This example is “he looked at Zlateh and noticed her udders were full. He layed down next to her, placing himself so that when he milked her he could squirt the into his mouth.” That showed she saved him and was going to be rewarded. The other thing the author used was imagery they made it seem as if it was real and you could have a clear image or what was happening. An example is from “the stranger saw by the children’s frightened faces his secret was out”.
Emily A September 29, 2017
LA: D
13 by James Howe
In the series of stories in the book “13” the stories portray many terms of literary devices. For an example in the short story, “Kate the Great” the boy talking to the younger girl says, “I think she wanted to make sure that you stay friends with her...Kate doesn't have many friends.” This is an example of situational irony because earlier in the story the narrator made it seems as if though Kate had many friends and as if she was the perfect girl. Turns out that Kate does not have many friends and isn't as perfect as the narrator illustrated her to be.
Furthermore, in the short story, “If You Kiss a Boy” the narrator gives a very strong example of characterization. A character named ,Curt, in the story is described as a “riffraff”. The character at one point said, “ What is the matter?...don't you like girls? You homo?” This shows that ,Curt, may not be the most respectful person youll meet. The narrator often tells stories about ,Curt, skipping school, making fun of people and being disrespectful over all. This gives a hint of characterization, it shows that ,Curt, is rude and disrespectful to other who are not like him. The overall book gives many examples of of literary devices.
Logan L
La D
The short stories from “Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul” illustrates foreshadowing in most of the stories. There was this one story that was called “The Tower” and the first sentence was foreshadowing because it said, “Ten-year old John McNeil ran barefoot out the door on a windy,cold day in February and headed straight for the 125-foot electrical tower behind the McNeil home.” This is foreshadowing because without reading the full story, you already have an idea that something good is going to happen or something bad will happen. It also shows foreshadowing in another story. This time the story is called, “ The Connection”. Again, in the first couple of sentences it already shows foreshadowing. This time it says, “I’m gonna die! I’m gonna die!” I was screaming over and over, hanging on for dear life. Suddenly, my toes slipped from the crack that had been supporting me. “I’m gonna die!” I screamed again.” This also shows foreshadowing because at the end of this short story, you figure out why this person thought they were going to die. Also when you read it, it stays in your mind and then when you find out what did happen, you remember that in the beginning of the story there was a bit of foreshadowing. Lastly, in another story the first sentence also foreshadows. This story is called, “Watching for the Miracle.” The sentence says, “Cindy Plumpton’s brother had been missing now for almost nine months.” This foreshadows again because we don’t know what is going to happen and again, it could be good or bad. Those stories are just three of all the stories that have foreshadowing, and there is a lot.
Aly D. LA.D
In my short story book, I noticed that the author uses a lot of dramatic irony and situational irony in his writing. For example on page 4, the author used dramatic irony when the main character got pushed into a puddle and said this to her fairy godfather, “Go away and let me suffer in peace.” This means that even though she did get pushed into the puddle, she was angry, but when the fairy godfather tried to help, she pushed him away and rejected his offer, but she actually did want some help. This proves that she said one thing but meant it in a different way. An example of situational irony on page 43 is that the main character’s parents are very strict and they don’t want her hanging around with boys. In the text it states “ Mom dad, I went to a bar and danced with some guys.” This is a strong example of situational irony, because her parents don’t want her with boys at all, but she went out and danced with a couple at a bar. Who knows what her parents would say or do. This is why this example is situational irony. In conclusion, these are some of my reasons that the author uses dramatic and situational irony in his writing.
Grace S
La D
In the short story,”Max Swings For The Fences,” he used foreshadowing. In the text it states,” It wasn't as if Maximilian Funk didn't know that things were going out badly.”In the short story Max went around saying that Beau Fletcher was his dad just to impress Molly. But, at the end Molly knew all along that Beau Fletcher was not Max’s dad. Also,in the short story they used a lot of characterization. For example, in the text it states,” It wasn't as if Maximilian Funk didn’t know that things were going to turn out badly.” Which means that everything that Max does is going to turn into a problem and lead to something bad happening. On the other hand, Max stated,”And that's when everything changed.” Which means Max wanted to change himself to be a better/honest person to impress a girl to like him. Also,” Max sat through first three periods wishing he were a different sort of person, the kind to impress a girl like Molly, the kind to have anything interesting about him at all. Molly was described as,”she had hair like fire.” Also, she was a nice person and was generous.
Jasmine M Lad
Three aspects of my story My First one is setting becauss it take place in school and at home and i think it tell us what the store is going to be like becaus of the setting it tell you ware it going to be In store one it is talking about a her at home and in school so like all the stores i read it all takes mostly take place in those place .
My 2 This is from my first story ,one is plot becass it baste on a plot and the plot and the plot is a about a girl that is not so pretty and her sister is really pretty and that was katie and everyone wanted to be her sister friend to closer to her sister and she hate that but katie was a pretty rude sister she was always mean and let all her friends and that got her sad , but close to the end of the chapter she says that everyone is bufail and , what i mean this was a story plot becass it was almost all based on buaty that is why i picked this one .
My 3 Mood becass it was in the 2 story she seemed a little scared or nrvas becass of everything in that chapter she seem those things and other charters
Friday, September 29, 2017
List the story and book titles and author.
A day in the LIfe of a Smiling woman
By Margaret Drabble
A. Write a constructed response that explains how stories from your book illustrate one of the following terms: characterization, foreshadowing, dramatic or situational irony. Feel free to cover more than one. Give lots of evidence from the text.
ries. Margaret Drabble . Les Liaisons Dangereuses this story has foreshadowing because the author in the texts it states, “the room was dark and candles were in bottles and although a certain amount feeble shuffling was going on the center of the floor.” This is foreshadowing because the author is talking about the setting of the story how it's dark and how the room is loud because of the floor shuffling. The author also used characterization because one of the character's name was Harold Pinter. Harold Pinter is a young man had not have the nerve to go and meet other strangers who will quickly get nice to him.“The only people who were not shouting or shuffling they were extremely boring-looking people like himself, who sadly dropped in dark corners.
There was a girl named Justina she was naturally surrounded by people like friends. She had long hair with a dark red color to it, she will honestly refill her drink. She would always smoke a cigarette. In conclusion the story had a lot of characterization and foreshadowing. She is really good at making her point in her short sto
B. Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
September Blog
Zoe R LA d
In my short story book,” Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues,” there was a lot of characterization in it. The book was about different people who did bad things to the world, and it explains their life so of course there was characterization. For example in the short story,” Merchant of Misery” about James DeWolf the text states,” In a fetid, four-foot high crawl space between the ship’s main deck and cargo hold, 162 African slaves were chained fast to the wooden planking.” This shows that he is a enslaver and that’s his job ( but he enjoyed it). Also in the text it applies,” Fearing that the woman had smallpox … attempt to prevent her from infecting others … ordered his crew to lash the women to a chair … his only regret was the loss of the chair.” This shows that he does not really care about people, but he only cares about the things that he has and his money.
Also in a different story there is some foreshadowing. The text says,” Tired of feeling like a eunuch” which tells me that he is going to do something greater.
Miles S LA D Book title: 13 Authors: Bruce Coville, Meg Cabot, Alex Sanchez, Rachel Vail, Lori Williams Stories: What’s the Worst That Could Happen?, Kate the Great, If you Kiss a Boy, Thirteen and a Half, Black Holes and Basketball Sneakers.
The demonstration of irony in “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” is created through the exposition, and rising action. In the exposition the protagonist explains his name is Murphy Murphy. This situational irony is created by characterization since the exposition is mainly developing the characters. Murphy explains his name was from his mother’s family tradition, which was to name a son Murphy. Murphy’s father’s last name is Murphy which was obviously handed down to Murphy. Murphy explains the situation of his name throughout the description of himself. Which is demonstrated again in the rising action.
Murphy’s friend, Trinity wants Murphy to do a skit with her for a school play. Murphy only said yes because he likes Trinity and then forgets he has stage fright. This is situational irony because Murphy thinks he can do the play but then realizes he can’t because of his stage fright. After practicing his and moaning about how he can’t do the play, Murphy ends up making the audience laugh like crazy.
In Kate the Great Irony is demonstrated by sudden twists. In the rising action, the protagonist, Jenny is babysitting after waiting so many years to do so. After being told by the Weinmans, the baby’s parents, not to let Kate over their house, she comes along anyway. This is Situational irony because Jenny didn’t think of Kate knowing that she would directly come to where she was baby sitting. Kate told Jenny she heard where she was sitting and decided to come along. Kate even tells Jenny she is going out to get a milkshake and she wanted Jenny to come. This is situational irony because Jenny thought Kate came over to say hi but instead Kate wants Jenny to ditch her responsibility and go get a milkshake.
Fatima V / Class : D
In this book report I will be covering the subject matter of how the stories illustrate one of the following terms characterization, Foreshadowing, dramatic, verbal or situational irony. So for example in the story Campfire Tale it used a lot of verbal irony like on page 4, “ Shorty was trying to burn down the woods!” said Larry. But you exactly know that he really didn’t. Also it tells you that he uses a lot of exaggeration in his writing and shows that you can’t take everything he says seriously as we do with other things. Another term he used was in the new story Best friends he used a simile on page 11 in says “ what's with this boy Can’t he close a door without slamming it or walking upstairs without sounding like a herd of elephants?” complained Dwayne's Mom. The Last following term is metaphors its another one from the Campfire Tale in the story is says “ The Stalker is so scary it scares people to death!” said Larry and that's the last term.
Nikolas D LA A The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told 9/29/17
The author uses many great aspects in this book. He makes it so the reader enjoys what he is reading while also challenging the reader. The first aspect in the short story Snipers,Brothers the author uses a first person point of view. This is to show how intense war really can be and has a very serious tone. In this sentence the author really shows how a first person point of view can make a story more interesting “When they popped their machine gun out and started shooting at us, I let them get their thirty rounds out, and then I popped up and started back into that window.” The next aspect the author of Mission to Tehran uses is Flashbacks. The author uses this flashback at the best time possible. The character remembers “I remember being asked the question,”What are you afraid of?” I didn't hesitate to answer: Fire. The last thing the next author uses is situational irony.”I started laughing kind of like,I couldn't believe how easy it was, It was stupid.”They're like Brace,your the guy we've been making fun of for two years now, and you just killed a guy with a 50. Cal sniper rifle and your laughing about it. The author makes you think Brace is soft but then he ends up killing someone.
Rachel O LA A
Question B:
In the short story, “The Stars Below,” the author has three distinct aspects of her style. The first is the amount of description. Most of the story, and the actions that happen, are shown through description. Even when there is dialogue, the author mixes description with it. For example, for the first two pages, the only words spoken are, ‘ “Gunnear! Master Gunnear!” ‘ The rest is description such as, “A tall figure moved there and its shadow moved with it, cast upward on the murk.”
Another aspect of the author’s style is the way she writes dialogue. Despite the tone of the dialogue indicating an older time period, the conversations are very realistic and casual. It makes the characters seem real and relatable to the reader. For example, a conversation is:
‘ “Here then, who’s that? Hanno?”
“What were you doing up that old drift, mate?”
“Hey, who is that?”
“Who the devil, stop him-”
“Hey mate! Hold on!” ‘
And finally, possibly the most important aspect, is her use of figurative language. She often uses many similes and metaphors to portray characters’ feelings. One of the best ways she uses similes, though, is to show the characters’ connections with certain things. For instance, this portrays the main character, who now lives in the mines after his home was burned: “Time stretched behind him and ahead of him like the dark drifts and crosscuts of the mine, all present at once, wherever he with his small candle might be among them.” This shows his new connection with the mines. However, she almost never uses personification, onomatopoeias, or hyperbole.
Amber M
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B. Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
Norton Juster, one of the authors from the short story, “Milo Conducts the Dawn,” has a pretty specific writing style. He uses a lot of imagery in this story specifically. In almost every page, there was a very well described setting, and it put a clear image of what Juster was trying to say. Since the imagery was descriptive, and most of the story consisted of that, that means that the overall story was descriptive. Most pages had little to no dialogue. That could point out a story of his from a crowd. The dialogue that does happen is just summarizing what the characters were thinking in their head. Barely any back to back conversation was going on. The action and description coincided with each other. When there is action, it’s descriptive action.
Another author, Isaac Asimov,from the short story, “Prince Delightful and the Shameless Dragon,” uses very little description.For the little amount there was, got leveled out by the amount of dialogue. That automatically differentiates the two authors writing styles. The short story was set in old time, which came along with many complex words, and word choices, making the vocabulary very advanced. Another thing, is when Asimov writes out the dialogue, he writes it as if the characters had an accent. For example, in one paragraph he wrote, “I ain’t gonna eat you. In the foist place, I ain’t hungry,” and if someone were to read that out loud, you could understand what accent the dragon speaks in. Some other things the author does that could depict his writing style, is his use of similes. In almost every page, there is a simile. That factor plays a part in his writing style. In this story, Asimov used a lot of characterization about the main character. Even though it is a short story, he still took the time to describe the background of the protagonist. Since the readers knew a lot about the protagonist, it concluded the story with a lot of situational irony. Something that one could say is that his writing style has good characterization, which some authors don’t have very much of.
Briana M
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Question one
The author uses some Dramatic Irony and some foreshadowing. I didn’t see any characterization. For example, when the Baker woman wanted to cook Hansel. The Baker woman asked Hansel to get into the oven, but Hansel didn’t know he was getting cooked but the readers could probably suspect it coming. In the text it states, “Not hot enough… was crawling in…” There was also some foreshadowing in this book. For example, while Hansel was in the oven he said it wasn't enough in there, so the baker woman climbed in. I could tell that he was going to get out of the oven and lock The Backer woman in there and get Gretel from the cage and run away very far away from there. Also, when Gretel felt so guilty when the 7 boys turned into swallows because her new father and mother were very sad so she went to find them and when she couldn’t turn them back into boys she felt even more guilty. I knew she was going to do anything to make her new parents happy again and that’s what she did. Furthermore, the author uses some foreshadowing, in the text it said, “She heard howling…” “...Wondering if it was Hansel.” I kind of figured out that is was Hansel and that Hansle did turn into a wolf. Lastly, the author uses some foreshadowing when in the text it states, “Go home, little girl, go home; to a murders house you’ve come.” I knew something was up with the house she was going into. It had a creepy mood to it when she walked into the house which put me in a little suspicion. I suspected something was going to happen to Gretel or someone else. In conclusion there were foreshadowing and some dramatic irony in this book.
Alice G
La A
Jacob M. Appel, uses lots of figurative language in his book, “Scouting for the Reaper.” One of the things he uses is situational irony. In the story, “Choose your own Genetics,” Natalie determines that she must have either type a blood or type b blood because those are her parents blood types, but when she takes a blood test in school she finds out that she has type b blood. This is situational irony because the reader thinks that she is going to have the blood type of one of her parents but she ends up having a completely different blood type. Jacob M. Appel also uses lots of flashbacks. In his story, “The Extinction of Fairytales,” Edie Crossgrove is shocked when her gardener Sammy disappears and throughout the whole story she has many members of the times she spent with him. One of the most extensive flashbacks is the memory of when Edie’s dog passed away and Sammy buried her in a nice crate with a Bible from his church, but this story also has similes. Like when Jacob states, “The rain started falling in enormous beads, splattering on the deck like bird eggs.” Finally, there is lots of dialogue in all of Jacob's stories and it is mostly long conversations. Especially in the story, “Hazardous Cargoes,” where there are 13 lines of dialogue on just one page.
Gianna D. L.A: A
The short story book that I read for my september short story book was The Cow-Tail Switch and other West African stories, by: Harold Courlander and George Herzog. The author(s) of this story did include characterization. My first example of characterization is from the short story Kaddo’s Wall. Kaddo started out to be a cocky rich man. Kaddo had the best fields in the Kingdom of Seno. So, he ordered 100 young girls to grind all of his corn into flour. The girls mixed water into the flour to make mortar and Kaddo ordered them to make a giant wall around his house. For the next 2 years Kadoo had bad harvests and was starving to death and had to eat the wall he made. After a while Kaddo became the poorest man in the Kingdom of Seno and learned his lesson to not be greedy. This is a good example of characterization because Kaddo started out being a cocky rich guy and he change over time and became a better person.
An example of situational irony that I found was in the short story The Cow-Tail Switch. In this story and expert hunter named, Ogaloussa in the village of Kundi was found to be missing during the hunt. One day his newborn son asked where he was and Ogaloussa’s other sons went out to go find him. They soon discovered that he had been killed during the hunt. This is a good example of situational irony because Ogaloussa was told to be the best hunter in all of the land and was killed during the hunt.
An example of personification that I found was in the short story called Talk. During this story a country man goes out to his garden to dig yams to take to the market. The yam then says to him, “ Well, at last you’re here. You never weeded me, but now you come around with your digging stick. Go away and leave me alone.” This is a good example of personification because the authors(s) gave human like qualities to something that is not human. Another example of this is when the dog said,” It wasn’t the cow who spoke to you, it was the yam. The yam says leave him alone.” This again is another example of personification. All in all, the author(s) include characterization, personification, and situational irony in their short story book, The Cow-Tail Switch and other West African stories.
Fay B. LA A
My short stories had many distinct styles of writing in them, each with different elements that made them unique from each other. In the stories Je ne parle pas francais by Katherine Mansfield and Paul’s Case by Willa Cather, the two authors use long, drawn out sentences and not a lot of dialogue. For example, certain sentences in the stories go on for a whole paragraph. The beginning sentence in Je ne parle pas francais is a whole paragraph long, with lots of commas and semicolons. The sentences in Paul’s Case aren’t quite as long, but still take up more than half of the paragraphs they are written in. This is an example of certain sentence-length, which, if reading another story by Katherine Mansfield or Willa Cather, would be helpful in determining the author.
Another example of an element of style is a long exposition (or lack thereof). For example, in First Love by Eudora Welty, the exposition goes on for almost four full pages. This is almost one third of the whole story, considering the story is about fifteen pages long. An exposition this long helps to set up the scene, and when reading another of Welty’s works would probably be prominent.
The story Miss de Mannering of Asham by F. M. Mayor uses figurative language, mostly similes. There is a simile on almost every page, at least one. Also, in, yet again, First Love by Eudora Welty, there are several similes used to describe people’s actions or the way things look. Although many authors use figurative language, these author’s use it in a subtle yet effective way, and use it to enhance imagery and help the reader visualize descriptions.
Gianna D. L.A: A
The short story book that I read for my september short story book was The Cow-Tail Switch and other West African stories, by: Harold Courlander and George Herzog. The author(s) of this story did include characterization. My first example of characterization is from the short story Kaddo’s Wall. Kaddo started out to be a cocky rich man. Kaddo had the best fields in the Kingdom of Seno. So, he ordered 100 young girls to grind all of his corn into flour. The girls mixed water into the flour to make mortar and Kaddo ordered them to make a giant wall around his house. For the next 2 years Kadoo had bad harvests and was starving to death and had to eat the wall he made. After a while Kaddo became the poorest man in the Kingdom of Seno and learned his lesson to not be greedy. This is a good example of characterization because Kaddo started out being a cocky rich guy and he change over time and became a better person.
An example of situational irony that I found was in the short story The Cow-Tail Switch. In this story and expert hunter named, Ogaloussa in the village of Kundi was found to be missing during the hunt. One day his newborn son asked where he was and Ogaloussa’s other sons went out to go find him. They soon discovered that he had been killed during the hunt. This is a good example of situational irony because Ogaloussa was told to be the best hunter in all of the land and was killed during the hunt.
An example of personification that I found was in the short story called Talk. During this story a country man goes out to his garden to dig yams to take to the market. The yam then says to him, “ Well, at last you’re here. You never weeded me, but now you come around with your digging stick. Go away and leave me alone.” This is a good example of personification because the authors(s) gave human like qualities to something that is not human. Another example of this is when the dog said,” It wasn’t the cow who spoke to you, it was the yam. The yam says leave him alone.” This again is another example of personification. All in all, the author(s) include characterization, personification, and situational irony in their short story book, The Cow-Tail Switch and other West African stories.
September blog; Abbey A; LA A
Question B: The author, Ernest Hemingway, uses a lot of flashback, dialogue and imagery/description in his writing. In the story, “The Snows Of Kilimanjaro,” He uses mostly flashback and description. He describes something and it may go into a flashback.
In the second story, “The Killers,” He uses a lot of dialogue. There is one page that is completely dialogue. He also uses description to make imagery but it only came up once or twice in this story.
In the rest of the stories he uses a combination of dialogue and imagery. The author uses a lot of dialogue in these stories so they all have at least two or more characters. When he does use dialogue he sneaks in different languages and dialect.
He chooses very interesting word choices and uses some complex words to describe something or uses strange choices to make the words more complex. One example of this is in the story, “The Snows Of Kilimanjaro,” he puts in a part where the main character is thinking, “so this was the way he ended it, in a bickering over a drink. Since the gangrene started in his right leg he had no pain and with the pain the horror had gone and all he felt now was a great tiredness and anger that this was the end of it. For this, that now was coming, he had very little curiosity. For years it had obsessed him, but now it meant nothing itself…” This quote shows how he makes complicated word choices. It also shows he does longer sentences. They are not necessarily run-on but are longer.
Something's Ernest Hemingway doesn’t use too much are foreshadowing and irony. He may put it in once or twice but it wasn’t enough to make it part of his style. He did use foreshadowing in the first story to show that the dad was going to perform a surgery but it wasn’t major and you can barely tell it’s there at all. He uses some verbal irony but it doesn’t show up often and the other ironies barely show up at all.
The major things Ernest Hemingway uses are, dialogue and dialect, imagery and description, and flashback. He also uses irony and foreshadowing but not that much.
B.
In My book the first story is The Land Ironclads (pg. 1). It is about two opposing armies where the offenders surprise the defenders with revolutionary (at the time) new war machines. In this story, the author, H.G. Wells, uses a lot of onomatopoeias, such as “boom,” “whit,” and “smash.” This story has a lot of dialogue, almost half of the story is dialogue. Finally, the author has a very obvious theme: don’t judge a book by its cover, or don’t use stereotypes when dealing with real people.
Morgan S La A
Question B
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote “Young Goodman Brown” For my book “50 Great American Short Stories” I noticed he wrote In a very distinct style
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a less literal writer. His style included specific dialects and ways of speaking for each character. For example In “Young Goodman Brown” He used an old english dialect for many characters.
“Dearest heart,” whispered she softly when her lips were close to his ear, “prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed tonight.” …
“My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must need be done ‘twixt now and sunrise.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Included hidden foreshadowing aswell.
“But no no; ‘t kill her to think it. Well, she’s a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night I’ll cling to her skirts and follow her to heaven.”
This Foreshadows a point later in the story when he thinks his wife is dead and acts irrationally in hopes it will get him killed.
Kristiana C.
LA- A
The story “Your Question for Author Here” has a lot of characterization while the story “Kid Appeal” is more straight to the point and focuses on foreshadowing. For example, in “Your Author Letter Here”, the boy, Joe, talks a lot about himself and his life which allows us to get to know him better. He writes “I am kind of afraid of thunderstorms. Not the rain part… It’s the part the flash of lightning and the BAM of thunder.” However, in “Kid Appeal”, the story has a very short exposition and almost begins with the conflict. When the contest is beginning, it says, “There’s no way you losers have a chance.” It is only on the second page that this conflict is introduced which didn’t leave much time for getting to know the characters. Next, in “Your Question for Author Here”, the entire story is being told through two people writing letters to each other. There is no time where we are inside the head of one of the characters. We only know what they are telling each other. In “Kid Appeal”, we learn almost everything through what the kid is thinking. Dialogue does not give us a lot of information. Lastly, “Your Question for Author Here” does not include any foreshadowing because we only know what the characters know at the time. “Kid Appeal” does include foreshadowing. It is always talking about how the kid’s dad does not know how to use the thermostat so it was always either freezing or really hot in his house. When they put their project that is made out of chocolate on top of the heater, we know that the next morning, it will be melted. In conclusion, the story “Your question for Author Here” focuses a lot on characterization and dialogue while “Kid Appeal” focuses more on fast paced action, description, and foreshadowing.
Aidan R. LA - A
2. . Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
Answer - An author's style of writing that I noticed the most was, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, I noticed he used lots of similes and personification to describe events 2 examples would be: The author said “Even the lizards were bobbing their heads as if they were listening to a tune” This described the light and peaceful setting that helped set up the story and set the mood. Another example would be: “the two bottles knocked into each other and clanked like they were getting into a scuffle in the background.” This helps illustrated the tight tense mood to build tension for the reader. Another author i had read from was, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, this author used a lot of figurative language to describe things or people to help the reader see the image the author was trying to create. When describing the main characters parents house he described them as “They were in their late 80’s, both small and mahogany skinned, with a tendency to snoop. They even smelled a like - a menthol scent, from vicks vaporub they passed to each other.” this is very different than the last author Mohammed Naseehu Ali who kept the description short and kept the story moving, He would rather compare things rather than describe them. The two authors have a different style.
Allyson D.
L.A: A
In the story Unicorn Magic the author ,Roz Marshall, uses flashbacks, figurative language and foreshadowing. The author uses a lot of figurative language in this story. The type that is used most often is similies. For example when the author describes the man’s singing at the beginning of the book they say “It was a delicate as rose petals, as pure as a mountain stream, and as sweet as a marshmallow melt.”. The author uses the figurative language to describe how the main character felt as she was listening to the music. The author also uses flashbacks in the story to describe events from the past. For example the author uses flashbacks to describe the place where her horse liked to visit. The author describes the main character's memories as if they are happening at the very moment. This helps the readers to better understand what is happening in the story. The author uses foreshadowing in the story when describing the man in the cloak that Sacha saw on the hill “Between two of the stones a shadowy figure was silhouetted against the fading light. A cloak mantled his shoulders, and thick curls ruffled in the wind as he gazed across at her , the intensity of his stare drawing her towards him like a magnet. How could he be here?” This piece of foreshadowing leaves readers in suspense. The readers do not know who the character is they only have a general idea of who he could be. Sacha wonders “How could he be here?” and it leaves the characters wanting to know more.
In the story The confectioner’s Guild the author, Claire Luana, uses foreshadowing and flashbacks in her story. The author uses foreshadowing so that the characters feel in suspense. On example of foreshadowing in the story is when one of the guild masters from the guildhall is sent out to get Sacha but won’t tell her why. This makes the characters want to keep reading the story.The author also uses flashbacks in her story. These flashbacks help to explain how the character became an apprentice. It also helps to explain what her life was like before she became an apprentice. The flashbacks give you a better understanding of the character and her life.
Amelia O.
LA: A
The short story book Shattered has many different styles of writings as the authors in the book write in different ways. The short story I’ll See You When This War Is Over by: M.E Kerr shows that when the author wrote the book he really wanted to set a mood for the story and he also wrote it so that we got a scents of imagery in our minds. In the story one of the eldest boys of the family gets a message that he has to be shipped out for war. The setting takes place at the train station where the family is saying bye to the boy before he goes off to training. At the end of his short story the book stated, “The four of us walked silently to the car, not talking, until Tommy suddenly blurted out,“This damn,damn war.” This makes me feel pain that the family had experienced when one of their older children went to war. Not only did this quote show the sadness of the family but also maybe a little bit of madness as they seemed mad that he was forced to be shipped out to war. I could almost picture the family standing there and almost crying for the sake of their child. This clearly shows that the author wanted include figurative language such as Mood and Imagery through the quote that shows the family's sadness over their child being so young and going out to war.
The short story Golpe de Estado by:Dian Curtis Regan shows that when she wrote the book she wanted to focus on comparing objects to something unlike it. For example some figurative language she used was similes,metaphors and personification. In the text the story is about how the family survives living in Venezuela during a war. In the story it talks about how they handle curfews set by the army, loss of supplies and how day by day the war keeps getting worse and how they miss the beautiful land of venezuela. In the text it states, “ ...Mt.Avilas lumpy spine juts above the city like a prehistoric dragon.” This clearly shows how the people of Venezuela miss the beauty of their country before it was destroyed. This can help me picture the mountain looking like a sort of dragony figure.
Although both stories were similar using figurative language, both authors were able to portray imagery and mood in quite different ways. This is how author style changed between short stories in the book Shattered.
Tori C La-A
In the book “The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov,” i noticed three aspects of the writer’s style. For example, the author uses a lot of similes, personification, and imagery. He used these to create pictures in the reader’s head and to help the readers understand what is happening in the story. An example the author used in the book is, “On his long crane-like legs he sways in the wind like a starling-cote.” The author is comparing his legs to a crane, and he’s comparing how the man sways in the wind, to a starling-cote. Also, because the author you the word “like” ,it’s a simile. Another example of a simile the author used in the book is, “A big drop falls on Fyokla’s cheek and glides like a tear down her chin.” In this example, the author is comparing a raindrop falling down a cheek, to a tear falling down a cheek. The author also uses personification in his writing. For example, “A warm wind frolics over the grass, bends the trees, and stirs up the dust.” the author is giving human like characteristics to the wind, wind doesn’t frolic, bends objects or stirs. Also, the author uses imagery. An example of imagery the author uses is, “A flash of lightning, some fourteen feet long, gleams above their heads. There is a loud peal of thunder…” This example creates an image inside of my head, because the author used what people hear and see and used it in text.
Jayda S.
LA A
One example of characterization in my book is when the girl was describing the old man, he had one eye, “One of his eyes resembles that of a vulture-- a pale blue eye, with a film over it.” This describes characterization because she was explaining how this old man appeared to look like.
One example of foreshadowing in my book is when she was describing the old man’s eye she said, “Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold; and so by degrees--very gradually--..” This is foreshadowing because later on in the book the eye had made her so cold hearted that she decided to take the life of the old man.
One example of situational irony in my book is when the man came home, his favorite cat Pluto was beside him, Pluto was the only animal that liked the man because the man was ill so he would go into rages and hurt all the animals, but Pluto. One day the man came home and he was in one of his rages and he didn’t know what was coming over him, he was turning into a beast. He took Pluto and killed her. Then when his rage was over he had looked at what he had done and was not sad at all and he looked over his shoulder and another cat that looked like pluto was sitting there beside him and instead of the cat running away the cat stayed and purred against the man. This is an example of situational irony because once he had killed his favorite pet, a new one appears and is his new favorite and looks just like Pluto.
Killian L
La class: A
In the book of short stories “Title Not Included, An Ensemble of Short Stories” there are many examples of the authors using tools such as foreshadowing and characterization. In the story, “Pennies for the dead,” by Phillip Lickey, there are two characters by the name of Tanya and Sam, these are the two main characters, however the author barely introduces them, the reader is automatically put into their world, as if they had known the characters before, “ A couple of beads of sweat gathered on his brow as he realised he was being questioned into a corner,” as this does make the reader assume Tanya, one of the main characters, is slightly strict and mean, due to the boy’s reaction to her question. In the story the author also uses and abundance of foreshadowing. Tanya and Sam are offered pennies by a woman in the mall they are visiting, “ “For you”, she repeated, jutting her hand out and nodding, encouraging her to take the coins quickly, like a child offering their last two jelly beans to their disinterested parents,” when the woman presses Tanya to take the coins, the reader assumes that something must be important about the coins, and the woman must be giving them to Tanya for a reason, once Tanya takes the coins there is a turning point in the story, the woman states, “They’re your problem now!”, this leads the reader to believe something must happen with the coins later on in the story, the coins must have been cursed in some way.
Matthew T
LA-A
The author from my short story book that I chose to describe is Graham Joyce. The short story he wrote was “The Oversoul.” Graham used roughly 30% dialogue and 70% of thought by the protagonist, in first person point of view. The only people that had dialogue were the protagonist (Frank), his friend, his parents, and a girl he liked.
“Have you Frank? Have you found a pound and lost a fiver?”
“No.” This author also liked to foreshadow using it twice within a couple of pages. “She sat against the tree again. For a moment and for a she closed her eyes and I thought she might go to sleep. It made me anxious about her kids. I don’t know why but I felt protective toward them.” This foreshadows that something bad is going to happen to the woman’s kids. Then later he author foreshadows that something bad is going to happen to her kids again by saying, “I also kept an eye on her kids. I felt protective and anyway she probably needed the sleep.”
Then the author used imagery to help me see what the girl with two children looked like.
“ She had brown hair with blonde streaks. I like that. But she looked a little strained. Tired. Maybe it’s tiring looking after little kids all day. I wondered where the kids’ father was. If i had a beautiful wife and two lovely kids like that, I wouldn’t let them go to the quarry pool on their own. I’d want to protect them all the time.” That’s the three aspects that I described of Graham Joyce.
Isabel B
LA A
A. Write a constructed response that explains how stories from your book illustrate one of the following terms: characterization, foreshadowing, dramatic or situational irony. Feel free to cover more than one. Give lots of evidence from the text.
In my book The Umbrella Man and other stories the author illustrates situational irony. In the story the “Umbrella Man” there was situational irony. For example the little old man told the the mom and her daughter that he was to tired to walk home and he needed money to get a cab home. Later in the story the mom saw the man running down the street in a hurry. In the text it says,”He doesn’t look very tired to me , does he to you, Mummy?” My mother didn't answer. He doesn't look as though he's trying to get a taxi ,either,” I said.”
Next in the story “The Great Automatic Grammatizator.” In this story two men made a machine that would write stories and they would try to sell them. Once the machine got really good at writing story they tried to convince a really good writer to stop writing and let the machine write her stories for her. You wouldn't expect her to say yes but she did. In the text it says,”She read through the first chapter and became so enthusiastic that she signed up on the spot. To conclude the author illustrates situational irony in the Book The Umbrella man and other stories.
Eva W.
LA A
One of the authors uses a lot of foreshadowing during his short story, another uses more figurative language, especially similes, and a different author mainly tells the story through the dialogue and thoughts of his characters. There styles of writing are extremely different.Gregg Hurwitz, the author of “Dirty Weather,” includes many pieces of obvious foreshadowing. For example, when he describes the character walking into the bar he mentions a limp, a pale face and no uniform, it suggests that the person is injured. A couple pages later, he throws his boot into the fire after he gets “shot in the foot.” It happened to be the same foot he was limping on when he first entered. The act of throwing his boot into the fire revealed that he was hiding something. The author hints that the man is bad later on when the lady overhears the radio, which warns about a man with a limp. Heather Graham uses a lot of figurative language in her short story. On the first page she uses a simile and a piece of personification to describe the storm and the bad luck. She describes the serial killer’s eyes, “The eyes were red; they seemed to glow, like demon eyes.” Later on she uses more personifications and similes to describe the characters. For instance, “An ebony darkness greeted her.” On the contrary, F. Paul WIlson uses thoughts and dialogue to tell the events in his story. He includes different dialects; one of the characters is from New York, and another is from Ecuador. For instance, “Lemme tell you, Jack… these changes got me in a baaaad mood. Real bad. My feets killin me too…” is the accent of the New Yorker. The quotes, “Then you not much use to us, eh?” and “You wan see what happen when you get shot inna head?” shows the Ecuadorian’s dialect.
N. dieterich
B.
In My book the first story is The Land Ironclads (pg. 1). It is about two opposing armies where the offenders surprise the defenders with revolutionary (at the time) new war machines. In this story, the author, H.G. Wells, uses a lot of onomatopoeias, such as “boom,” “whit,” and “smash.” This story has a lot of dialogue, almost half of the story is dialogue. Finally, the author has a very obvious theme: don’t judge a book by its cover, or don’t use stereotypes when dealing with real people.
Katie H LA C
Final
Once Upon Now
By: J.M Butler, Christine Owen, Tammy Oja, and Ali Novak,
This short story book had a lots of different authors with a different style. One short story I read from the book was “Why Yes, Bluebeard, I’d Love To.” This story is in 3rd person, the protagonist is Emeline and the antagonist is Bluebeard. There are lots of imagery in the story to really get the clear picture in your mind of what’s happening. For example, “The southern portion of the roof was buckled, and nodules of mold grew in clusters around the indentations. Most of the roof had shifted somewhat to the east.” Another example is “Blackened blood streaked the walls, mingling with green and black mold. Small congealing pools of blood dripped and drained across the floor, setting into the dips and crevices. The author used onomatopoeia to show the action of what’s happening. For example, “drip, drip.” That is showing that blood is dripping from the wall. That is one author’s style. Another short story I read was “The Friend Zone Promposal” This story is written in 3rd person. This author used lots of imagery to show what the character is wearing. For example, “As she slides on her black skinny jeans, black hoodie, and her retro Chuck Taylors to finish off her shadow blending motif.” Another example is “The dress is white with a metallic type sheen, a small amount of beading and the illusion of feathers ingrained in the fabric.” The last example of imagery is “His tux is black and white, classic, with a bow tie and a cummerbund in emerald.” This author also uses metaphors to compare 2 things, for example “Squirrels, a pack of rabid squirrels couldn’t hurt. Just one rabbie full bite could get me off the hook.” The author also uses hyperbole to show an exaggeration “ sure, pick my brain, you’ve already broken my heart. Maybe you can take my kidney too and make it a trifecta of torture.” That is how this author has a different writing style than the first author.
The Random House of Sports Stories
Dayton Van Amberg
LA C
The question i will be answering is question B, Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
The first aspect is that the author writes in a way like “The Man from the South.” in a way as if he uses accents from lots of the stories in the book like, on page 5 he uses words like junior and midget to describe one of the characters from the short story,”You Could Look It Up.” Or in the short story,”My Old Man,” the author made the dad talk in a more southern accent.
The second aspect is he uses a lot of imagery in his stories. An example is that in,”You Could Look It Up,” he describes how the stadium is loud and the feeling is strange. Also in,”My Old Man,” he examples what the track his like how the air was soft and crisp and how it was a nice day outside and good for racing. Another example is in,”Ali the Terrible Turk,” when they start wrestling the feeling it dense and the crowd is roaring.
The final aspect is the usage of characterization. In, “Ali the Terrible Turk,” the author explains a lot about the main characters and uses how they are like how they like to laugh or how they are always angry to engage the reader into the story. Also in,”You Could Look It Up,” the author speaks about the main character the midget and how he is small and very brave to play baseball with the major leaguers and in the same story another character Magrew was grumpy and didn't want to be associated with the midget.
Kayla H.
Class : C
Title: Chicken Soup for the Teenage Souls III
In the book, “Chicken Soup for a Teenage Soul III” , the authors use Situational Irony. Situational Irony is when you, the reader thinks that one thing is going to happen but the total opposite happens. In the story, “When Forever ends”, a girl named Molly got a note in her locker , that her best friend, Katie, doesn’t want to be friends anymore. Katie found a new friend that didn’t like Molly. The reader thought that Katie wrote the note but as it turns out Katie’s new friend wrote it.
In addition, “Loving Yourself First,” it is Valentine's day at an high school and the student can buy flowers. A boy named Harlan wanted flowers but when announcing the people who received , they didn’t say his. Then he finally got one. The reader thought that he probably got it from a girl but it was actually from himself.
To conclude, “Chicken Soup for a Teenage Soul III” , authors use Situational Irony.
Book: more short and shivery
Characterization: in “hold him, tabb”, he said that the man was dressed in all white cloths
Foreshadowing: “in hold him, tabb” tabb said, “what a bunch of fools those other fellows are to have stayed down with the horses, when they could have stayed in here, just as warm and comfortable as me!” which kind of foreshadows that the ghost or oster was going to go after him. You can kind of tell by his cocky attitude.
Characterization: in “the witches’ eyes” don pedro said that the twins wore skirts made out of stiff black material and had identical fans
Foreshadowing: the twins always tell don pedro to leave before midnight so it kind of gives you a clue or tries to tell you that they are witches.
Characterization: in “the duppy” he describes the duppy as a white bubble coming out of the grave, and that there was a swirling shadow inside
Foreshadowing: you can tell that by the time the duppy came out from the grave you could foreshadow that it was going to try to get jubal and attack him.
Characterization:in “two snakes” he described the man to wear a white robe
Foreshadowing: it is very obvious that after one year the hunter would still go back there to hunt without knowing what would happen
Foreshadowing: in “the draug” they heard cries from the sea but said it was just a sea bird but its obvious that it’s actually the draug, and when the draug dives into the water you know that its going to go back up because it wont give up that easily
Nico P
Short Stories by Irish Women Writers
LA A
I will be answering question A.
In the story I read called "In Middle of the Field", there is a lot of characterization before the rising action. It explains what life is like for the young main character Billie, and the rest of her family. There was use of foreshadowing when Billie was in the field, and there was an old man in the fog that would eventually kill her. the text said "The silhouette of the figure was coming closer, as it appeared deathly."
In another part of the short story, there was a scene where one of here family members poisoned her drink to try and kill her as well, but none of the other family members knew, and neither did billie. This is an example of dramatic irony.
Maddy A
LA:B
13 by:James Howe
this short story book is based on how this boy liked this girl then they didn't know what to do because he was gonna tell his parents but he didn't know if she liked him back but she said she didn't know. Because she likes someone else so he got upset and mad and told her that its fine but he didn't really mean it and that he was okay.They are doing a play together and they both were okay and happy with it but then he fell more and more for her and then the news got out that she liked him and he asked her out and she said maybe. Next, he told his parents and they were okay with it then they told everyone in the house that he had a crush then he got mad at his parents and told them to stop but they thought that was cute and it was but he didn't know that they were doing that to make it look cute or sound cute. his parents were happy for him and so was everyone else. Finally the next day she went up to him and said her answer so now their dating and he went home with a smile on his face and was never happy like that before.
Benjamin Laliberte book report La C
The stories I read had a lot of conflicts and had a lot of protagonists
For example, Staff Sergeant Chad Malmberg had to save his convoy when they were ambushed by well armed insurgents. That says that there is a conflict and that there is a protagonist.
The author uses plot in every story and has added point of view for example, the story starts out in third person and sometimes adds first person describe what’s happening. There is always a resolution to the story. Also there’s foreshadowing in the story, for example the story has hint describing what’s gonna happen next in the conflict.
There is figurative language like similes, metaphors, and onomatopoeia.
To conclude the Book I read has three aspects of the writer's style
The Random House of Sports Stories
Dayton Van Amberg
LA C
The question i will be answering is question B, Write a constructed response that describes three aspects of the writer's style that you noticed from your drama terms study guide. Support your answer with lots of examples from the story or stories.
The first aspect is that the author writes in a way like “The Man from the South.” in a way as if he uses accents from lots of the stories in the book like, on page 5 he uses words like junior and midget to describe one of the characters from the short story,”You Could Look It Up.” Or in the short story,”My Old Man,” the author made the dad talk in a more southern accent.
The second aspect is he uses a lot of imagery in his stories. An example is that in,”You Could Look It Up,” he describes how the stadium is loud and the feeling is strange. Also in,”My Old Man,” he examples what the track his like how the air was soft and crisp and how it was a nice day outside and good for racing. Another example is in,”Ali the Terrible Turk,” when they start wrestling the feeling it dense and the crowd is roaring.
The final aspect is the usage of characterization. In, “Ali the Terrible Turk,” the author explains a lot about the main characters and uses how they are like how they like to laugh or how they are always angry to engage the reader into the story. Also in,”You Could Look It Up,” the author speaks about the main character the midget and how he is small and very brave to play baseball with the major leaguers and in the same story another character Magrew was grumpy and didn't want to be associated with the midget.
Jed A.
November 1, 2017
LA C
The Ghost of Graylock: By Dan Poblocki
In this book, about a haunted asylum, in a town called Hedston, the main characters, Neil, Bree, Eric, and Wesley all go and explore it. It is supposedly haunted by a ghost named Nurse Janet. Many things happened in their exploration, such as injuries, and findings. Therefore, many choices had to be made by the characters.
One choice that I believe changed the course of events was when Neil, and Bree went into room 13. Room 13 was the most haunted room in the hospital. Neil would feel the urge to go into that room. It felt as if he was “compelled” to go into that room. This was a bad choice. This is because while they were in their, they had lost Eric, and Wesly. It was also a bad idea because while in there, they were attacked by Nurse Janet. They had been locked in that room. Neil had been pushed by her into a wall, and his nose bled. His camera, and flashlight had died, too. This left him with no light, or no proof he could show anyone, because he couldn’t record. Luck soon turned to there side when Wesley said from across the hallway, “ What are you guys doing in there?” That’s when he opened the door, and saw the two in the room. Neil had almost fainted, so Bree had to help him out. Then, as they were about to up and leave, the floor had caved in, and Neil’s leg had got caught. This left him with a Terrible gash on his leg. That’s when something was coming out of the darkness. A human-like figure. Turned out, it was Eric, and the 3 kids had gotten scared for no reason.
Going into room 13 was a bad idea because if the hadn’t, Neil wouldn’t have been completely injures, head to toe, and Nurse Janet wouldn’t have followed them home, and haunt their dreams for a long time.
Jack s the eyes of darkness by dean koontz's 11-1-17
LAD
The main character in my book is a mom with a son named dominic that passed a while ago. Many choices were made in this book but the most important decision was when she decided to believe that her son was still alive and that she could find him. This is the most important decision to make because she would’ve never found her son because if she just gave up and lost hope that he was still living then she would’ve never found him. I think the mom is a strong character because at first she saw him in real life in a white pickup truck many times and wondered if he was still alive then she thought about how would it be possible for him to be alive because he was in a bus accident and they had a funeral for him and everything. Then one night she heard something and thought it was an intruder so she took her gun off her night stand and searched the house and when she went into Dominic's old play room she saw something written on the whiteboard, it said, NOT DEAD which gave her chills but also a little hope that he was still alive so she checked the rest of the play room but no one was there.
Mikayla H
Dorothy Must Die
Danielle Paige
The main character is Amy Gumm, an average high schooler with an alcoholic mother, gets swept up in a tornado and finds herself in Oz, but something isn’t right. She had to make a very important decision, whether to go on trial for her wrong doings or leaving with Mombi, the “wicked witch”. She decided to go with Mombi and not face her consequences.This was a tough decision because it was between dieing or saving a place that once was so magical but when put into the hands of a greedy outsider got ruined because when Dorothy got a little taste of magic, she just kept wanting more and more until she had it all. I think she made the right choice because even though she ran away from her responsibilities, she was going to save Oz by removing the tin woodman’s heart, stealing the scarecrow’s brain, taking the lion’s courage, eventually killing Dorothy and making Oz back to its normal, magical place again. This shows that Amy chooses what’s right for others sake and not hers. If Mombi never came, she would have gone on trial ,probably been proven guilty and died but she decided to risk her life to save all of Oz to save not only people but animals including the once high flying monkeys who got their wings cut off and were now slaves for Glinda, the “Good Witch”.
Maddy A
L.A B
2/6/18
Friend enemies Rosie Rushton
SOMEONE: Hannah,Tory,Angela,Ben, and Danny.
WANTED:they wanted to know what was happening with there other friends and now they are worried because they dont know whats going on.
BUT: the problems were that they didn't know how to make sure they were okay or they didn't know how to go see them and make sure they were okay.
SO: they finally went to there houses and brought them some food and water and was talking to them and asking them if they were okay.
THEN: they left and told there friends that if they needed anything to call them and talk to them and not just stay there and not ask them.
FINALLY: they all ended up hangout again and became really close friends.
Hannah and danny are really close as being friends again and so is the rest of the group they all decided to hangout after school at there little hangout area and talk about what they did today.
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