LANGUAGE and Close Reading!

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LANGUAGE and Close Reading!

LANGUAGE DEVICES Any choices in language that add a deeper meaning. Can contribute to voice, tone and/or narrative style.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Metaphor Simile Personification Alyssa was beautiful, like a delicate flower.

SENSORY DESCRIPTION / IMAGERY Wording that appeals to the five senses Nick’s hair was sharply spikey and his skin was pearlescent.

WORD CHOICE Connotations of particular words Cameron had an elfin beauty.

REGISTER Formality Slang Nia was hecka cute!

EMPHASIS Hyperbole Understatement Irony/Sarcasm Conner was the single most handsome and intelligent human being that had ever existed in the history of the world.

Close Reading Pulling apart a small portion of text, looking at language. Asking yourself: If the author had dozens of ways to say this word, phrase or sentence, why did they say it this way? What are some of the different potential reader reactions to this word, phrase or sentence?

Oh. No mortal could support the horror of that countenance Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.