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welcome to lexicon part 8 tone style and genre  first string on the talk about 10 words and this entire PowerPoint is inspired by tone is the author's attitude toward the material of the audience or both I'm also right now it's very difficult so it the best way of thinking about it is its involves the stylistic means by which the author tries to convey his or her attitude so anytime you talk about Tone If you say something has a jovial tone or something has in diet take tone you need to be able to show at show the choices that the author made in order to create fat tone and of course tone is Central to The Works meaning because it controls the reader's response because if I'm saying something to you with a condescending tone I hopefully receive it differently than if I'm saying something to you with  support of town and in order to shift interpret complexities of tone you have to make inferences you have to figure it out which is why on the multiple choice section of the AP test tone is off I'm the lowest scoring question questions about tone fewest people get it right because you have to infer a lot and I know cheat on Facebook statuses tone is much easier to determine and spoken language  so when body is like what who do you think puts all their toys into their treat that's that's ridiculous I mean parents two different tones going on here we have buddies tone which is this very sincere shock and also very selfish where it right he knows that everyone who thinks Santa isn't real is ridiculous but then because we have an ironic distance from Buddy there is the tone of the writers of this piece who are kind of winking at us like siblings watch this with you  and I've done this before but it's so useful and doing it again tone is how the speaker feels it's about speaker's attitude and mood is how the text is intended to make the audience feel or the prevailing atmosphere emotional or of the work setting tone in events all affects the mood but again the mood is about the audience's feelings and so if this dinosaur the freshmen are with their huge backpacks and pool passes if he's talking to a group of upperclassmen  Maywood his tone is still like derisive and comical and their mood would be light and kind of they feel good about themselves because they weren't the Freshman that's being made fun of in contrast for a freshman so even differences between the audience and speaker when the facts obviously aren't the same irony irony is the contrast in what is stated explicitly and what is really meant or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true so Central to that is the fact that graston difference irony is not about coincidence so quinncidence is the same like if I'm like today is my mom's birthday and one of you through the pewter was like it's Mom's birthday to have that awkward if the same write the moms birthdays are the same in contrast when most Scholars think that Shakespeare died on his birthday I different year but wanted birthday and so that's more ironic because we generally think of birthdays as a celebration of one's life it is not expected that it would also be the day when staff is often used to create humor or poignancy also regardless of the type of irony for the feelings that produces generally makes the reader feel Superior because they're in on the joke so that's why when Barry from it says irony kind of winking at each other as we all understand the game of meaning rehearsal that's being played that's a weekend of superiority right the adults watching are having a little special time with the writers winking at each other thinking this elf really believes this not world that exist we all know and it's this feeling of superiority and this is not an elf reference but it took great comet Casper was trying to destroy my prop for later in this presentation thank spending all day staring through the glass at stuff you'll never have talking about his hat and the irony is that he expects that he's very different from his cat but he's not  I'm going to talk about the three types of Irony verbal irony is when the words literally State the opposite of the writer speakers meeting and we talked about verbal irony a lot when we did formula and lines like the Muse of poetry should not know that roses in manure grow are great example app for Blarney because by saying that he's kind of winking at us so that we think wait music poetry should know situation irony is when events turn out the opposite of what is expected when what characters and readers think ought to happen or is going to happen is not what happened since your freshman year you read The Gift of the Magi or the husband and wife give up their prized possessions to buy their spouses and accessory for their prized possession so the opposite of what they expect to happen their spouses going to be able to use this chain or this comb happens they are not dramatic irony when facts or events are unknown to a character in the player piece of fiction but known to the reader the audience rather characters in the work and Aladdin Disney movie when Aladdin and Jasmine are both like sometimes you just feel traffic to know that Jasmine is talking about feeling trapped within the palace but Aladdin thinks that jazz talking about feeling trapped outside of the pallets sarcasm is from the Greek meaning to tear flesh so that's a hint at the slight difference between sarcasm irony sarcasm sarcasm usually includes bitter caustic language that's meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something it may use arnaeus advice but not all ironic statements are sarcastic he is not all of them are meaning to tear flesh when well-done start you can be witty insightful when poorly done it is simply cool and one of my favorite quotes that I'm going to paraphrase from A Separate Peace is when Gene thinks to himself that sarcasm is the last Refuge of the week dial and Dumbledore's there because you know whatever you think of Dumbledore he's got Style style is the sum of all the choice is the author makes so it includes their diction their syntax the language literary devices their tone so when you're coming up with style you're describing all of the things that the author does and then your job would be to relate that to the purpose how is it appropriate that Francis Macon used bunch of parallel structure and elevated language when talking about studies and created lists that had contrast  Styles can be flowery explicit to sync rambling bombastic commonplace incisive laconic those are all various terms to describe styles you can actually you will have to look one of those up that you don't know the meaning of that's going to be one of the questions for this video stand when Elvis talking to his little step brother half-brother he says I waited 5 hours to you so good news I saw a dog today have you seen it off you probably have our school was it fun did you get a lot of homework huh do you have any friends do you have a best friend does he have a big coat so there the style is  inquisitive but there's also this eager excitement which we can talk about this syntax is being really short which relates to that we can talk about how he changes subjects often as showing his excitement  and of course all the questions coherence in unity refer the quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea theme or organizing principle so in your essays your Coke lights or Unity is all about the thesis the thesis is supplying the unity for your essays everything you do has to relate to your thesis and other works it's more challenging one of the big challenges for us in woman warrior was identifying the organizing next post you that it was organized around her quest to understand her Identity or her goal of name how the various cultures she's a part of work together when they seems to not work together at all and peaceful have a literary piece from 1 points or one section to another sew-in the part where buddy was asking his half-brother about his day very fast paced because moving from work are slow pace today develop more slowly and example of that would be the cave that was worried of the cave when's it made sense that he was taking a step by step describe each piece of the cave and then having laughing chance will not ask to say oh yes I see the kind of slow us down because it was didactic he wanted to be very deliberate and explaining things  some Iams pacing is used to create important juxtapositions so the fact that in woman warrior she has her 3 years silence she talks about house paint it black in front of everything she didn't talk in school right before she believes the girl in the bathroom for not speaking gives us insight into the motivation and then at the beginning of Elf when it shows all the things that buddy can't do because he's a human not an elf when he's playing or something can't do playing basketball and then hitting his head alarm  didactic I used it a lot so hopefully you know what it means by now but it's from the Greek meaning teaching and play tactic text have the aim of teaching or instructing particularly related to morality and Of Studies by Francis Bacon was didactic because it was trying to teach us how to study correctly and the best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear ambiguity refers to the multiple meanings either intentional or unintentional of a word phrase sentence or passage so Amir word can be ambiguous or an entire passage so in the whiskey speech where that's the kind of was he favoring one of the sides I'm not exactly sure I like the example of I can't tell how much I enjoyed meeting your husband because it's ambiguous Maybe  he or she can't tell us because it stop hyperbolic o I really enjoyed meeting your husband's or maybe he or she can't tell us because here she did not like her husband at when does  lyrical is song like characterized by emotion subjectivity and Imagination and the beginning of Buddy the elf Elf the title kind of the film version of lyrical because we have narwhals and all the forest animals and stuff and of course Woman Warrior on the quote there I have not lyrical language at the beginning in the end she said I would grow up a wife and a slave my American life has been such a disappointment but in the middle when the car would come from the bird that flew over if the bird would cross the sign and look to the mountains their party in the Mist briefly that's World opaque again is lyrical it's much more imaginative ATS flows nicely it's not jarring Beach parallelism uncommon Illusions in diction so anything Apple of ornate language is the beginning of Paradise Lost when John Milton add of Man's first Disobedience the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world and all are well blah blah blah and then he reference is Orab Sinai later so it's a complicated sentence that's all one sentence there and it's not dying it has I'm coming home to cause elevated so it for me  best military relates to the quality of state or of appearing to be true right Vera means truth you know that in Harry Potter. A serum so similar to  set an alarm so its appearance be true and that's when our attempts to reflect reality so this scene like the very lyrical scene of Buddy the elf in the early parts of the movie tries to create verisimilitude uarc Kingston of the conditions inside the family's laundry as opposed to our description of science lifestyle atmosphere is the emotional not created by the entirety of the literary Works including the choice of objects that are add some details the offering plate is always important whether and frequently atmosphere foreshadows events or create to do sew in quote from the details of including the thick solid oak slabs the narrowness of the windows and chimney all of that all of that is kind of creating this atmosphere of a very trap stifling environment  jaundice so is Jana is the major category into which a literary Work Fit basic divisions like a big divisions of literature prose poetry and drama froze then can be divided into fiction and nonfiction we are mostly reading nonfiction this year what's the printer determines length of the line in poetry the poet determines the length of line and flying and go on to the next there's something called a prose poem which unites the two because even though the lines goes long as the printer wants them are full of some say fart really Compact and his lot of information I don't even seek after him right now poetry can be divided into lyrics your Matic narrative epic Etc on it all of that stuff and , tragedy comedy melodrama farce I'm on the AP exam you expect the majority of the passages to be autobiography biography Memoirs Diaries criticism I'm which means what you do you do criticism because you analyze literary works it doesn't mean making fun of stuff that being critical well where to go in journalistic scientific nature and there's very very poetry generic conventions refers to the traditions for each genre buddies talking about food Rihanna has a food he like an allegory the symbolic story assemble something that represents itself and something else you know allegory because because we were at allegory of the cave you're right I can be read on two levels and often the allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or generalization about the human experience which is true for the cave and set for programs progress where that man named Christian has this burden on his back that's pushing him into **** which was representing original sin and so on and so far and I made him Christmas Eve and then he has resonant but the Puritans family you guys know it means determine but it can include any serious talks feature lecture involving a moral or spiritual advice narrative is telling of a share an account with an event or series of events your job always if you notice that the texture reading is a narrative is to decide why they chose to tell it that way what are the effects of telling it sometimes big choices like that stuff under our radar but that's a choice with the author chooses why and parody is a work that close imitates the styler contents of another with the specific aim of comic effect or ridicule and so it usually exploits the style features of an author's work or things with the author often uses like parentheses favorite work like that well-written parody offers Enlightenment about the original so it makes you rethink the original makes you see it in a new light but poorly written parody is only in effect and in order for parody to really be effective the audience must grasp the literary allusion and understand the work being parody so they have to see the this picture is The Simpsons going to parody of the end of Charlie Brown in order to appreciate that it snowing in satire we're going to talk about it more detail second semester and we've already discussed it a bit is a work that it's human devices or Follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or feel so it is critical of either just human nature four social institutions and again it's for the sake of reform  best seen as a style of writing the purpose reading so you'll never say that Mark Twain uses the Duke and the Dauphin for the purposes of satire what's an unfair he uses them in order to satirize the aristocracy suggesting at something often humorous it's often thought provoking and insightful about the human condition and satire uses irony wit Lee caricature hyperbole understatement in sarcasm and this is from the onion girl moved to Tears by Of Mice and Men Cliff's Notes so that's at the fact that high school students not any of you but high school students don't read the real texts anymore suggested that they're missing out on the whole point because you're not going to be moved to Tears by Cliff Notes  Tommy Conrad's includes romantic and romantic jonra uses remote or imaginative instances upholds nature as being a place for play more honest and has a bunch of coincidences both Scarlet Letter and have been were influenced by romantic jonra and Gothic includes Mitty Wilder mysterious elements is often dark or McCobb it's kind of like the dark version of romantic send presents to details about the life so it's focused on verisimilitude and so when Buddy the elf I passed the seven levels of Candy Cane Forest do the Sea of swirly twirly gumdrops and then I walked through the Lincoln Tunnel humor is created by The Conch if they're very romantic style that begins with and then the realistic style that it ends with so that's the end Merry Christmas

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