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