1. Ghastly Grownups Style, Tone, and Narrative Point of View in The Twits.

2. Book Details  Name: The Twits  Author: Roald Dahl  Illustrator: Quentin Blake  First published in 1980 by Jonathan Cape, London.  Target age group: 6-10 yrs  Sample quotes of reviews: “Dahl’s wicked sense of humor is given full scope in this story … children … will lap this up” – Practical Parenting “The Twits is really good because it’s silly and a bit disgusting” – 8-year old reader

3. Narrative Point Of View  aa What a lot of hairy-faced men there are nowadays.

4. Style:Words  Alliteration and Creation of new words : I'll swash you to a swizzle! I’ll gnash you to a gnozzle! I’ll gnosh you to a gnazzle! “Giant Skillywiggler” “Roly-Poly Bird” “Muggle-Wump the Monkey”

5. Style:Sentence s Come on, come on! Jump on the table! Stand on the chairs! Hop on each other’s shoulders! Roly-Poly can do it flying! Don’t standing there gaping!

6. Style:Dialogue I always grow plenty of spiky thistles and stinging-nettles, they help keep out nasty nosy children. I’ll wring your necks, the whole lot of you, and have you bubbling in the pot for Bird Pie before the day is out!

7. Tone:Humor  Exaggeratio n  Absurdity  Comic Violence

8. Tone:Didacticism If a person has ugly thoughts it begins to show on their face. If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

9. References  Dahl, Roald. The Twits. New York: Puffin Books, 1980. Print.  Nodelman, Perry, and Mavis Reimer. The Pleasures of Children’s Literature. 3 rd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003. Print.  Russel, David L. Literature for Children: A Short Introduction. 6 th ed. Boston: Pearson, 2009. Print.  “Roald Dahl” 1995-2009. Penguin Books Ltd. Web. 2 May 2009.  Wikipedia contributors. "The Twits." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 19 May. 2010. Web. 29 May. 2010. 林采璇 Anita 971220 吳佩君 Sylvia 971036 張致菱 Evelyn 971009 高瑄 Lara 971204 宋明達 Nick 971055