1 / 9

Style Tool Box

Style Tool Box. How to use the Style Tool Box in your classroom: Included are seven slides, each with a list of “tools” a writer may use to achieve a purpose. The seven slides are as follows: General Strategies, Figurative Language, Syntax,

geris
Download Presentation

Style Tool Box

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Style Tool Box • How to use the Style Tool Box in your classroom: • Included are seven slides, each with a list of “tools” a • writer may use to achieve a purpose. The seven slides are • as follows: General Strategies, Figurative Language, Syntax, • Diction, Point of View, Organization, and Modes. • Print the seven tool box slides and laminate them or put • them in page protectors as the students’ go-to visuals for • style analysis. Allow students to have them out when • writing style analysis essays. • Enlarge the slides and make classroom posters. • Give students “blank” tool boxes as you introduce each • device. Students use the slides as graphic organizers. • For review, make a sorting exercise out of cut-out tools. • Students have to group them (e.g., put all the syntax • devices together).

  2. Style Tool Box Strategies irony tone diction organization syntax point of view imagery figurative language organization rhetorical modes detail

  3. Style Tool Box Rhetorical Devices sprezatura tricolon chiasmus apodioxis erotema tricolon logos pathos ethos

  4. The Writer’s Tool Box Figurative Language paradox hyperbole cliché oxymoron idiom litotes euphemism synedoche apostrophe personi- fication meiosis metonymy metaphor understatement juxtaposition simile antithesis analogy

  5. Style Tool Box Syntax emphasis repetition pace balanced sentence main clause epanalepsis dependent clause zeugma/ syllepsis asyndeton parallelism polysyndeton epistrophe long and involved sentence anastrophe rhetorical fragment loose sentence telegraphic sentence ellipsis periodic sentence Interrupted sentence inversion rhetorical question alliteration anaphora

  6. Style Tool Box Diction literal connotation figurative denotation concrete formal abstract informal euphonious colloquial cacophanous slang monosyllabic jargon polysyllabic

  7. Style Tool Box Point of View first person innocent eye stream of consciousness second person perspective third person limited questionable narrator omniscient

  8. Style Tool Box Organization general to specific cause/effect chronological order problem to solution comparison spatial sequential order of importance advantages and disadvantages

  9. Style Tool Box Modes comparison/ contrast argumentation persuasion process analysis exemplification exposition cause/effect narration classification/ division description definition

More Related