First TEST!
- Elizabeth Ashley
- Aug 28, 2015
- 1 min read
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
