Transcript Flowers for Algernon” Skills

Point of View
0 1st Person - I, Me, We; Autobiography,
0 2nd Person – You; Do it Yourself, How To…To make lemonade,
you add the juice of lemons to water and sugar. You need to prepare
a wall before applying primer. When getting rid of a drain clog, first
turn off the water.
0 3rd Person – He, She, They; "He is just what a young
man ought to be," said she, "sensible, good
humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy
manners! -- so much ease, with such perfect good
breeding!" Jane Austen in Pride and Prejudice
Inference
0When you make a logical
guess about a character or an
event based on story clues or
your own experience, you are
making an inference.
Traits - Characterization
0Physical
0Personality
0Emotional
Tone
0 Tone is the author’s attitude toward the writing
(his characters, the situation) and the readers.
A work of writing can have more than one tone.
An example of tone could be both serious and
humorous. Tone is set by the setting, choice of
vocabulary and other details.
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Amused, Humorous, Pessimistic, Angry,
Informal, Playful, Cheerful, Ironic, Pompous,
Horror, Light, Sad, Clear, Matter-of-fact, Serious,
Formal, Resigned, Suspicious, Gloomy,
Optimistic, Witty
Mood
0 Mood is the general atmosphere created by the
author’s words. It is the feeling the reader gets from
reading those words. It may be the same, or it may
change from situation to situation.
0 Fanciful, Melancholy, Frightening, Mysterious,
Frustrating, Romantic, Gloomy, Sentimental,
Happy, Sorrowful, Joyful, Suspenseful
Situational Irony
0 Situational irony occurs when the expected
outcome does not happen. This is also called an
irony of events. The outcome can be serious or
humorous.
0 A fire station burns down; The marriage counselor
files for divorce; The police station gets robbed
0 The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry - The wife cuts her
long hair and sells it to have the money to buy her
husband a pocket watch chain. He sells the watch to
buy her a hair accessory.
Dramatic Irony
0 Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows
something the characters do not. Because of this
understanding, the words of the characters take on
a different meaning. This can create intense
suspense or humor.
0 In a scary movie, the character walks into a house and
the audience knows the killer is in the house.; In
Romeo and Juliet, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and the
audience knows she is not.