Monday, October 26, 2009
Mood
Mood is the atmosphere or general feeling of the text. It is the feeling that the reader get while reading. In the book Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson the mood was Scary and Sad. The frightening part was that the Fever actually happened and that it could happen again. The sad part was how tousands of people died and children were left alone. By using Imagery the book makes you feel as if you are there so you feel what the characters feel. All the characters are sad and scared , so you get sad and scared.
Theme
The theme of a book is a writer's central idea or main message about life.
In the book Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson the theme is overcoming hard times. Throughout the whole book, the yellow fever makes people ill and kills them, but Mattie survives the fever and takes care of all the others with the fever. Mattie overcame the hard times she faced in the book by staying alive and helping her grandfather until his death. She survived through out the whole book because the author is trying to tell you that she is brave and doesn't give up.
In the book Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson the theme is overcoming hard times. Throughout the whole book, the yellow fever makes people ill and kills them, but Mattie survives the fever and takes care of all the others with the fever. Mattie overcame the hard times she faced in the book by staying alive and helping her grandfather until his death. She survived through out the whole book because the author is trying to tell you that she is brave and doesn't give up.
Friday, October 23, 2009
IMAGERY
Imagery is the verbal expression of a sensory experience. It uses descriptive or figurative language to create words into pictures. The most common things used for imagery are the 5 senses. There is sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.
Sight is the sense that you use to see things. In a book it is a description of what something looks like. In Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson, an example is located on page 66. "the tin bathing tub". This describes a bathing tub that is made of tin. This helps you picture what that looks like.
Sound is the sense you use to hear things. In a book it is thedescription of what something sounds like. There is an example on page 67 "her teeth rattled" You can imagine the sound of someones teeth rattling. This helps you feel like you are in the book and hear what the protagonist hears.
Touch is the sense you use to feel something. In a book it is the description of how something feels like. On pg 213 Mattie said "Lumpy Mattress" This gives you an idea of what it would the mattress feel like when you touched it.
Taste is the sense you use to know the flavor of something. In a book it is the description of the flavor of a certain object. An good example is the one on page 67. "it tasted too horrible" This gives you an example that the food she ate tasted bad and you can immediately imagine eating something bad.
Smell is the sense that you use to identify the fragrance of an object. In a book it is the description of a fragrance. "I could smell the stench,"pg 146. Mattie said this because a stench means, something that doesn't have a pleasant fragrance. This allows you to imagine yourself in the place of the main character and identify the horrible smell.
Why do you think that imagery is important?
Why do you think that the author uses imagery in his/her books?
Sight is the sense that you use to see things. In a book it is a description of what something looks like. In Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson, an example is located on page 66. "the tin bathing tub". This describes a bathing tub that is made of tin. This helps you picture what that looks like.
Sound is the sense you use to hear things. In a book it is thedescription of what something sounds like. There is an example on page 67 "her teeth rattled" You can imagine the sound of someones teeth rattling. This helps you feel like you are in the book and hear what the protagonist hears.
Touch is the sense you use to feel something. In a book it is the description of how something feels like. On pg 213 Mattie said "Lumpy Mattress" This gives you an idea of what it would the mattress feel like when you touched it.
Taste is the sense you use to know the flavor of something. In a book it is the description of the flavor of a certain object. An good example is the one on page 67. "it tasted too horrible" This gives you an example that the food she ate tasted bad and you can immediately imagine eating something bad.
Smell is the sense that you use to identify the fragrance of an object. In a book it is the description of a fragrance. "I could smell the stench,"pg 146. Mattie said this because a stench means, something that doesn't have a pleasant fragrance. This allows you to imagine yourself in the place of the main character and identify the horrible smell.
Why do you think that imagery is important?
Why do you think that the author uses imagery in his/her books?
DICTION
Diction is the writer's choice of words.The writer used words like"I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear and my mother screeching in the right". This can be found on page 1.Another example of diction is when the writer used another set of words like "Over here lass",which can be found on page 18.Another example is "It's that heap of rotting coffee beans on Ball's Wharf,I tell you".Which could be found on page 19.The writer also used the word "Balderdash",which could be found on page 21.
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