Warm-Up Analyzing Word Choice and Author’s Purpose in Short Stories

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Analyzing Word Choice and Author¡¯s

Purpose in Short Stories

Lesson

Question

Lesson Goals

Read from Just So Stories by Rudyard

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Analyze the impact of

evidence

word choice on

to support a

meaning and

Draw a conclusion

conclusion.

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about an author¡¯s

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Words to Know

Fill in this table as you work through the lesson. You may also use the glossary

to help you.

to use text as

to support an idea or

cite

opinion

conclusion

author¡¯s purpose

an idea that is based on

an author's primary

and evidence

for writing a text, most

often to inform, persuade, entertain, or describe

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vivid

that appeals to the

imagery

[senses]

of sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell

the

of words, phrases, or

repetition

figures of speech for effect

the

of a text toward the subject and

tone

theme

Animals in Children¡¯s Literature

Children¡¯s literature may include stories and fables featuring animals as

characters. Authors write these stories to:

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How does word choice support an author¡¯s purpose?

Underline the moral of the fable.

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Imagery and Sensory Details

Imagery is

language that appeals to the senses.

adds to a story by:

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? connecting the reader to the

? affecting the reader¡¯s

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Identifying Imagery

Underline words that appeal to the sense of hearing to create images.

A barking sound the Shepherd hears,

A cry as of a Dog or Fox;

He halts, and searches with his eyes

Among the scatter¡¯d rocks:

And now at distance can discern

A stirring in a brake of fern;

From which immediately leaps out

A Dog, and yelping runs about.

¨C¡°Fidelity,¡±

William Wordsworth

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Tone

is a narrator¡¯s

toward the subject matter and

audience.

Examples of tone:

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? Humorous

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Writers create tone through word

, including the use of imagery

and repetition.

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Purpose in Short Stories

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Analyzing Word Choice: Tone

Underline the words that create a playful tone in ¡°The Beginning of the Armadillos.¡±

Then, underline the words that create a serious tone in ¡°The Gift of the Magi.¡±

This, O Best Beloved, is another story of the High and Far-Off Times.

In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog, and

he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon, eating shelly snails and

things.

¨C¡°The Beginning of the Armadillos,¡±

Rudyard Kipling

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it

was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the

grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one¡¯s cheeks

burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing

implied. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven

cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

¨C¡°The Gift of the Magi,¡±

O. Henry

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