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The Book ThiefZusak’s tool box
Goal
• IDENTIFY them when reading• CONNECT them to theme and
meaning• USE these words in speech and
writing• NOTE when you find them in the
novel
Allusion
• An indirect reference to a person, event, statement, theme, or work • Allusions carry a connotation when
readers know them; the author can say a lot by saying a little• Widely and well read; independent
reading
Simile vs Metaphor
• Simile: comparison with like or as
•Metaphor: comparison without like or as
Imagery
• Sensory language which allows the reader to feel, see, taste, touch, and/or hear the object of description
Symbol
• A concrete object which stands for an idea(s), and/or attitude(s)• Flag• Circle• Heart
Personification
• Giving a non-human thing human characteristics
Comic relief
• A humorous scene or passage which interrupts what is normally a serious and/or heavy text• Designed to lighten the mood• Shakespeare uses comic relief in tragedies
Irony
• A contradiction, strangeness, inconsistency between what is expected/what appears and what happens/reality• Various types, of which will come
later
Diction: word choice and/or type of language used
• Denotation a word’s literal/definition meaning
• Connotation: a word’s social/implied meaning
Poetic diction
• Prose vs. poetry?• Diction which looks like word choice
which would be found in a poem• Unusual syntax• Abundance of figurative language• Heavy concentration of literary devices
Synesthesia
• Sensory language which combines 2+ senses• Red hot• Frigid tone• Heavy silence
Allegory
•A story which represents 2 elements: the literal and a symbol of something else•Read The Pilgrim’s Progress or
Animal Farm
Onomatopoeia
•Words that look like how they sound•Hiss•Sizzle
Alliteration: repetition of sounds
•Consonance : repetition of consonants
•Assonance: repetition of vowels
Goal
• IDENTIFY them when reading• CONNECT them to theme and meaning• USE these words in speech and writing• NOTE when you find them in the novel