First Day
What does "tuck" mean?
Food!
This is when an author shows, not tells, what a character is like
Indirect characterization
List the 5 senses.
sight, smell, touch, taste, sound
How does Mrs. Pratchett feel in this moment?
"Mrs Pratchett’s face was glimmering with venom as her eyes travelled beyond me down the line"
Angry
What are the 5 elements we have covered in this class?
1. Show, not tell
2. Zooming in/focusing on a moment
3. Dialogue/internal dialogue
4. Thoughts and emotions
5. Characters
Why did the boys at St. Peter's need to have "tuck-boxes"?
Their headmaster did not feed them enough.
This is when the author tells us directly what a character is like
Direct characterization
Authors use sensory details to ______, __ ____ their readers their story.
show, not tell
How do the boys feel as they are walking to their Headmaster's office?
"We didn’t speak as we made our way down the long corridor into the Headmaster’s private quarters where the dreaded study was situated"
Nervous and anxious
What is it called when we use descriptive details to describe how someone it talking, who is talking, and what they did while they were talking?
Narration
Dahl explains that tuck-boxes are private, like a __________________.
Lady's handbag
What type of characterization is this?
"He advanced upon my mother and shook her by the hand, then he shook me by the hand and as he did so he gave me the kind of flashing grin a shark might give to a small fish just before he gobbles it up."
Indirect
The following is an example of which type of sensory language:
"Swish-crack! went the cane"
Sound
How does Thwaites feel in this passage?
"Thwaites came hopping past us on his toes, clutching his bottom with both hands"
He is in pain
What do ALL quotes and dialogue need?
Quotation mark
What can Dahl see from the banks of Weston-Super-Mare?
Whales, or where he is from.
The following excerpt tells us that Mrs. Pratchett is _____.
"Unless you spent a whole sixpence all in one go, she wouldn’t give you a bag. Instead you got your sweets twisted up in a small piece of newspaper which she tore off a pile of old Daily Mirrors lying on the counter."
Greedy
Dahl uses which type of sensory language to characterize Mrs Pratchett in this passage?
"...and then I heard the vinegary voice of Mrs Pratchett saying, ‘I am much obliged to you, ’Eadmaster, very much obliged. I don’t think we is goin’ to see any more stinkin’ mice in my Gobstoppers from now on"
Sound
How does Dahl feel in this passage?
"I gave a great gushing gasp that emptied my lungs of every breath of air that was in them."
Shock, pain
Authors can use descriptive detail and narration to show their __________.
Point of view
According to Dahl, how does he feel about new school?
Apprehensive (or any synonym)
The following is an example of _________ characterization.
" She was a small skinny old hag with a moustache on her upper lip."
Direct
This passage is an example of which type of sensory language?
"How swift and brave and graceful in his long trousers with bicycle-clips around them and his scarlet school cap at a jaunty angle on his head!"
Sight
How do we want to show emotions in our writing?
By showing, not telling
Who is the narrator in "Boy: Tales of Childhood"?
Dahl