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).
Style Tool Box Strategies tone irony diction organization syntax point of view imagery figurative language organization rhetorical modes detail
Style Tool Box Rhetorical Devices tricolon sprezatura chiasmus apodioxis erotema tricolon logos pathos ethos
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
Style Tool Box Syntax emphasis repetition pace balanced sentence main clause epanalepsis dependent clause zeugma/ syllepsis asyndeton parallelism epistrophe polysyndeton long and involved sentence anastrophe rhetorical fragment loose sentence telegraphic sentence ellipsis periodic sentence Interrupted sentence inversion rhetorical question alliteration anaphora
Style Tool Box Diction literal connotation figurative denotation concrete formal abstract informal euphonious colloquial cacophanous slang monosyllabic jargon polysyllabic
Style Tool Box Point of View first person innocent eye stream of consciousness second person perspective third person limited questionable narrator omniscient
Style Tool Box Organization general to specific cause/effect chronological order problem to solution comparison spatial sequential order of importance advantages and disadvantages
Style Tool Box Modes comparison/ contrast argumentation persuasion process analysis exemplification exposition cause/effect narration classification/ division description definition