First TEST!

Please review the Style Chart in your notebooks. I have included the definition review at the bottom of this post.

​Remember, I will be taking up your notebooks on Monday and grading them during your test! Two formative classwork grades will come out of these notebooks from the beginning of school to now. I will periodically take up your notebooks and grade choice assignments--my choice! So make sure you are doing ALL assignments that I instruct on PowerPoints in class! Make sure that you put "absent MM/DD" if you are ever absent, but, more importantly, come during lunch or after school Tuesdays or Thursdays to meet with me for what you missed!

LEGEND:

Element of Style

What it is

How We Know

Type of language

Standard English (formal/informal) or Dialect

Word spellings, “Do I talk to friends like this?”

Vocabulary Level

Easy, Intermediate, Difficult

Familiarity, “Do I know all of these words?”

Imagery

Descriptions & words that appeal to the senses

“Can I sense it?”(taste, touch, smell, see, hear)

Literary Techniques and Devices

Linguistic technique that produces a particular effect

Using reference chart

Tone

The author’s attitude towards a subject

Diction, positive/negative, paraphrase subject

Length

Long, Short, Varied

Count the words in sentences

Types

Simple, Complex, Compound

1 subject/verb; 1 sub/verb, 1 clause; 2 sub/verb

Punctuation

Periods, exclamations, semicolons, etc

Indicates tone and style w/ what’s on the page

Dialogue/Narrative

Dia: characters speaking/Nar: exposition

Look for “”s, “character said,” conversations

STYLE

The technique and “way” a writer writes

ALL OF THE ABOVE: Description of narrator+ Writing type