Accent

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Accent dialect

• HUH!?!?!?!

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New York City
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Everyone has an accent a dialect!

• If you went to Georgia, you would sound funny to
  them!

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Accent dialect in books

• Authors help readers hear characters accents
  in the way they write the dialogue.
• Dobby from Harry Potter and the Chamber of
  Secrets
• Dobby is always having to punish himself for
  something, sir. They lets Dobby get on with it,
  sir. Sometimes they reminds me to do extra
  punishments

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Accent dialect in books

• Authors help readers hear characters accents
  in the way they write the dialogue.
• Hagrid from Harry Potter and the Chamber of
  Secrets
• Im ony jokin. I knew yeh hadnt really.
  I told Lockhart yeh didn need teh. Yer more
  famous than him without tryin.

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You try

• How would you make the reader hear how this
  character talks?

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Across Five Aprils

• Many of the characters in Across Five Aprils have
  accents and dialects that Irene Hunt, the author,
  has helped us to hear by carefully writing
  their dialogue.