Style

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Style Writing

• English 12

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Literature as Art?

• We consider paintings and music art because their
  interpretation is left open to the viewer, and
  its effects are different for each.
• Does each person interpret poetry in the same
  way? No. Texts can be art too!

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Style in Writing

• The artistic measure of literature is called
  style.
• -Style is unique for everybody, its a groove
  youve got to find!
• -Developing style requires understanding
  different approaches.

She's Got Style!
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Lets Take a Look!
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Some ways to express your style include using
Now You Try!
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Satire always uses some degree of wit or humor.
It is a kind of writing which ridicules human
foolishness or vices.
Parody goes hand-in-hand. It imitates the
characteristic style of an author or a work for
comic effect or ridicule.
Satire and Parody
A great example!
He is a goniff! Someone ought to give him a zetz
in the schnoz. Oy vey! What has happened to
Dick, Jane and Sally since we last saw them? They
now speak Yiddish?!
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This is the relationship of the narrator to the
story. Needless to say, it is what creates bias.
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Point of View

• first person the narrator is one of the
  characters in the story
• The pronouns I, me, myself, my, mine, we, us,
  ourselves, our, and ours are first person

C. limited third person the narrator tells the
thoughts of only one character
Example As they walked to the store,
Jason wondered whether Sarah wanted Jungle Juice
as bad as he did.

• Example
• Jason and I went to the store to pick up some
  jungle juice.

Example Sarah and Jason went to the store but
neither of them wanted Jungle Juice.
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Figures of Speech

• - This is a type of expression that is non-
  literal.
• Examples
• Personification
• literary device in which animals, plants,
  objects, and ideas are treated as if they were
  human or alive, or at least given human
  characteristics
• EX The clouds danced happily across the low
  terrain.

• Metaphors
• figure of speech in which expressions are used
  to refer to something that it does not literally
  denote in order to suggest a similarity
• EX I just saw Susan walk by and man, shes a
  fox!

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Contradiction Ambiguity
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• A figure of speach that is inherently false, also
  known as an oxymoron.
• EXAMPLES
• Jumbo Shrimp
• Pretty Ugly
• Combining elements that are by definition in
  opposition to each other.
• EXAMPLE
• I slowly ran down the hall.
• Notice the opposition!

• An expression whose meaning cannot be determined
  from its context.
• Unclearness by virtue of having more than one
  meaning.
• EXAMPLE
• The small boy ate the cookies
• on the couch.
• Now did he eat the cookies that were laying on
  the couch
• or
• Did he eat the cookies while sitting on the
  couch?

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Researching Your Own Examples

• -Now you can find your own examples!
• -Just read your favorite author and you are sure
  to find some.
• -Useful texts include poems, lyrics, and
  fictional books.

Technique Style
Detailed Diagram of Style
Internet Links
SEARCH FOR A POEM .
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Make the Right Choice

• Plagiarism (n.)
• 1) a piece of writing that has been copied from
  someone else and is presented as being your own
  work 2) the act of plagiarizing taking someone's
  words or ideas as if they were your own
• Plagiarism has never been easier than it is
  today. Before the Internet, cheating was hard
  work and extremely obvious.
• The Internet now makes it easy to find thousands
  of relevant sources in seconds, and in the space
  of a short time plagiarists can find, copy, and
  paste together a term paper, article, or even a
  book.
• I dont discourage reading up on a topic,
  research all you want! Make sure you cite your
  sources however and give the author credit for
  his own work.

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Works Cited

• Slide 1
• http//www.wavcentral.com/top_sounds.htm
• Slide 2
• http//www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/malek/Pablo6.html
• http//www.aperfectworld.org/clipart/Music/electri
  cguitar.gif
• Slide 3
• http//www.uglypeople.com
• Slide 5
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• http//a1204.g.akamai.net/7/1204/1401/04051115011/
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• Slide 9
• http//www.lakesideschool.org/upperschool/departme
  nts/english/ErikChristensen/WRITING
  STRATEGIES/LiteraryStyles.htm
• http//oneonta.k12.ny.us/hs/murphy/terms.htm
• http//www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm