Book report

(500 words)

1. Write the storyline.

2. Describe your favourite part.

3. Write a letter to the author.

4. Tell how you would react if you were a character.

5. Choose 2 or 3 ''quotes'' from characters and say why tey're meaningful.

6. What makes the book good or not.

7. Suggest a different ending or write a sequel.

Sentence patterns

Sentence patterns 2

Independent Clause + colon + Explanation (specific)

Ex: 1

Bernard Shan told a writer: “There are three things I disliked about your story: they are the beginning, the middle and the end.”

Ex: 2

There is one key rule in my life: always be well dressed at work.

Ex: 3

Charles Darwin’s The origin of the species stated a harsh truth: only the fittest survive.

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Using figurative language

Simile: direct comparaison between two unlike things using a word like "like" and "as"

Metaphor: comparaison between two unlike things not using a word like "like" and "as"

Type 1: A=B, "the sky is a blue tapestry"
Type 2: 1) Verbs: "The goalie was skyrocketed to fame and now he's crashed"
2) Nouns: "In playing the Bruins, the habs are hitting a stonewall"
3) Adjective: "Koivu used to have cat-like moves"

Analogy: Extended metaphor or simile

"The Grande Bibliothèque might hold the key to your future; it unlocks many doors to knowledge; it opens the way to numerous oportunities."

"The human brain resembles a computer; it has incredible memory, both short term and long term; it updates everything"

Allusion: Refers to a literary work, place, event, myth, film

"His Achile's heal was his lack of personality"
"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in kansas anymore"
"She played Barbie to his Ken"

Personification: Giving human qualities to something inanimate or animal

"Dogs say cats love too much"
"Sun flowers nodded yes in the aternoon sun"
"The Canadian Rockies caulted into the sky"

Hyperbole / Understatement (opposite): Huge exageration

"There were thousands of people at his party last week"

Analysis

1. Setting:

- The story happens in the old man's house
- It takes place on 8 days

2. Characters:

- The narrator (the man who kills the old man)
- The old man (who gets killed)
- The neighbor (who calls the police)
- The police (who comes to the house)

3. Themes

- A human being has a perverse wicked side (another side) that can make him do evil things
without normal MOTIVES
- FEAR of discovery can bring DISCOVERY
- The EVIL WITHIN is worse than the evil without

4. Point of view

First person narrative

5. Sentence style

"Object, there was none, Passion, there was none. I loved the man..."

6. Figures of speech

- Anaphora

"I heard things... in heaven, I heard things in hell"

- Personification

"Death" becomes a person

- Simile

"A single ray of light like the thread of a spider"

- Alliteration

"Hearren! Observation heartily how calmly"

- Irony

"I was never kinder to the old man during the week before i killed him"

The Tell-Tale Heart

- Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19 of 1809
- Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7 of 1849
- Edgar Allan Poe maried his 13 years old cousin at the age of 27

Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous american author, our teacher Mr. B. presented one of his writings The Tell-Tale heart. This short story is about the confession of a man who killed an old man. At the very beggining, the man had no problem with him, he actually loved him, but somehow he had the idea of killing him, he was haunted by this idea. It was because of his eye, is evil eye. He was so obsessed that he would even watch him, every night at midnight, eight nights in a row, but on that very last night, the old man saw him. For one hour long, the man would not move at all, and so the old man would, sitting in his bed. Suddenly he heard a sound he new, the heartbeat of the old man, louder and louder, so loud that he had to kill him, there was no other choice

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