(REPEAT FROM LAST WEEK WITH A DIFFERENT STYLISTIC DEVICE)
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This week you learned about several stylistic devices that authors use when modernizing fairy tales. These may include characterization, foreshadowing, mood, symbolism, tension/suspense, and motif. Look for these same stylistic devices in your reading book.
Directions:
1. Identify the book you found that contains a stylistic device in 1 sentence.
2. Identify the stylistic device used in 1 sentence.
3. Explain how the author used the stylistic device in 3-5 sentences.
4. Compare and contrast this author’s use of the stylistic device to an example we discussed in class in 3-5 sentences.
The book that I found that contains mood is The Austere Academy. The stylistic device that I found in this mood. Mood is used when the author says, "To get to the buildings, the Baudelaires had to walk beneath an immense stone arch, casting a curved shadow on the lawn, like a rainbow in which all of the colors were black or gray". This creates a very dark and dreary mood for the reader. The author uses the words black and gray which are both dreary dark colors and contribute to the mood. This is example of mood is very similar to the example of Sleeping Beauty that we discussed in class today. They both give a dark and dreary tone although the example of Sleeping Beauty also had an evil tone. They are still different though because the mood in Sleeping Beauty comes from the charecter Maleficent and the one in my book comes from the setting
ReplyDeleteThe book that I found with a stylistic device is Bone Tall Tales. The stylistic device that I used is mood. The author used it when Big Johnson Bone was fighting the rat creatures. He was fighting the rat creatures in the woods. I could tell when Big Johnson Bone was talking about the stories that he was telling and mostly bragging about defeating other monsters. In the movie clip with Gustav he was saying to the beast that he was better than the beast. I think that Gustav was bragging a lot about how cool he is and that Beauty would rather pick him than the beast when really she would rather pick the beast than Gustav.
ReplyDeleteAs I said in last week’s blog, the author Suzanne Collins uses a stylistic devices throughout her books. The three books that I read, The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and the Mockingjay are written in a way that allows the reader to enter into the world of Panem. Collins characterization of Katniss becomes more than an image created by the author. Katniss is made strong, independent, selfless, and a young girl with compassion and love as well as rightful hate. She, like most of us feels many emotions, but keeps much within herself. Katniss is human, so she is also fearful and lonely. When Katniss feels weak, or defeated she looks for someone or something that needs her strength and then she moves on, not any happier only with a purpose for living. By using this device, Collins can reveal Katniss’ true thoughts and how and why she tries to protect other characters in the books from knowing who she is, while allowing the reader to see the real Katniss. An example of a sentence that indicates who Katniss is would be; “Taking the kids from our districts, forcing them to kill one another while we watch – this is the Capitol’s way of reminding us how totally we are at their mercy.” Here the reader sees sadness, hate, compassion and Katniss’ drive to change things. In class, discussing Maleficent’s characterization which was her appearance and evil sounding voice in the clip from Sleeping Beauty. In Collins books you can hear Katniss’ voice without audio through how smoothly her writing is. When I read these books, I can feel Katniss’ tenseness, or tone.
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