04.03A West Michigan Aviation Academy ENGLISH 303

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04.03A Elements of Style Analysis ● Choose a passage of at least 300 words from any text in the fiction, nonfiction, essays, short stories, or speeches sections of the website. ● Use the Style ... Analysis organizer to make notes and observations about the passage. ● Use specific examples from the text to support your points. Part 1: Copy and paste your selected passage, including title and author, in the space below. Use the organizer to make notes and observations about the elements of the author’s style. Guiding questions are included to help you develop an in-depth analysis, but every question does not have to be answered in order to have an insightful analysis. A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies. Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed. But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank. Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and said, 'I know what your wish is, and it shall be fulfilled, in return for your kindness to me--you will soon have a daughter.' What the little fish had foretold soon came to pass; and the queen had a little girl, so very beautiful that the king could not cease looking on it for joy, and said he would hold a great feast and make merry, and show the child to all the land. So he asked his kinsmen, and nobles, and friends, and neighbours. But the queen said, 'I will have the fairies also, that they might be kind and good to our little daughter.' Now there were thirteen fairies in the kingdom; but as the king and queen had only twelve golden dishes for them to eat out of, they were forced to leave one of the fairies without asking her. So twelve fairies came, each with a high red cap on her head, and red shoes with high heels on her feet, and a long white wand in her hand: and after the feast was over they gathered round in a ring and gave all their best gifts to the little princess. One gave her goodness, another beauty, another riches, and so on till she had all that was good in the world. Element Quote or Example from Text Observation About Style Subject ● What is the text about?-The text is about a king and a queen in a magical land that want a child. With a wish from a magical fish, she was able to have a daughter who was bless with three gifts from fairies. A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies. Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this The style of the author follows a typical fairy tale trend, and tells the story in a magical manner. Because the author used the phrase, “once upon a time…” the audience can infer that this is a fairy tale. He also tends to refernce objects and characters that you would only see in a fairy tale. For exmaple, fairies, talking fish, and kings and queens of a magical kingdom. This study source was downloaded by 100000855356755 from CourseHero.com on 11-01-2022 12:03:28 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/51826697/0403A/ ● If you have read other texts by the same author, is there an overlap in the subject matter? This will tell you if the author tends to write on a particular subject.-Grimm fairy tales don’t over lap, but they follow the same trend. The usually have a lesson that is learned over the course of the story, and have the typical adventure plot. They also use [Show More]

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