Typhoid Fever by Frank McCourt

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Typhoid Feverby Frank McCourt

• Literary Focus

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 1 Voice The writers or speakers distinctive
  use of language in a text. It is created by a
  writers tone and diction.

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 1 Voice The writers or speakers distinctive
  use of language in a text. It is created by a
  writers tone and diction.
• 6 Diction Writers or speakers choice of
  words.

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 1 Voice The writers or speakers distinctive
  use of language in a text. It is created by a
  writers tone and diction.
• 6 Diction Writers or speakers choice of
  words.
• 8 Tone The attitude a writer takes toward a
  subject, a character, or the reader.

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 1 Voice The writers or speakers distinctive
  use of language in a text. It is created by a
  writers tone and diction.
• 6 Diction Writers or speakers choice of
  words.
• 8 Tone The attitude a writer takes toward a
  subject, a character, or the reader.
• 10 Comic relief A humorous scene in a serious
  literary work that provides relief.

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 1 Voice The writers or speakers distinctive
  use of language in a text. It is created by a
  writers tone and diction.
• 6 Diction Writers or speakers choice of
  words.
• 8 Tone The attitude a writer takes toward a
  subject, a character, or the reader.
• 10 Comic relief A humorous scene in a serious
  literary work that provides relief.
• 12 Characterization
• Direct characterization the writer tells us
  directly what the character is like.
• Indirect characterization the reader has to put
  clues together to figure out what a character is
  like.

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Literary Focus

• 2 Voice __________?___________

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Literary Focus

• 2 Voice intelligent, sensitive boy

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Literary Focus

• 2 Voice intelligent, sensitive boy
• 3 How does McCourt recreate diction and
  viewpoint of voice?

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Literary Focus

• Voice intelligent, sensitive boy
• 3 How does McCourt recreate diction and
  viewpoint of voice? He does not use proper
  grammar (no quotation marks for dialogue) and he
  uses simple phrases and words.

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Literary Focus

• 2 Voice intelligent, sensitive boy
• 3 How does McCourt recreate diction and
  viewpoint of voice? He does not use proper
  grammar (no quotation marks for dialogue) and he
  uses simple phrases and words.
• 4 The voice in this memoir is poetic, because
  ________?________

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Literary Focus

• 2 Voice intelligent, sensitive boy
• 3 How does McCourt recreate diction and
  viewpoint of voice? He does not use proper
  grammar (no quotation marks for dialogue) and he
  uses simple phrases and words.
• 4 The voice in this memoir is poetic, because he
  enjoys Shakespeare and The Highwayman poem. He
  loves literature.

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Literary Focus

• 2 Voice intelligent, sensitive boy
• 3 How does McCourt recreate diction and
  viewpoint of voice? He does not use proper
  grammar (no quotation marks for dialogue) and he
  uses simple phrases and words.
• 4 The voice in this memoir is poetic, because he
  enjoys Shakespeare and The Highwayman poem. He
  loves literature.
• 5 Author selects voice to show how his ___?____
  shaped the _____?______.

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Literary Focus

• 2 Voice intelligent, sensitive boy
• 3 How does McCourt recreate diction and
  viewpoint of voice? He does not use proper
  grammar (no quotation marks for dialogue) and he
  uses simple phrases and words.
• 4 The voice in this memoir is poetic, because he
  enjoys Shakespeare and The Highwayman poem. He
  loves literature.
• 5 The author selected this voice to show how his
  past shaped the present.

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?
• They show his social class and education level.

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?
• They show his social class and education level
• 9 Narrators tone toward fever hospital?

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?
• They show his social class and education level
• 9 Narrators tone toward fever hospital?
• Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples
  Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies Frankie
  gets his first exposure to literature, which he
  loves, but being quarantined is unpleasant

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?
• They show his social class and education level
• 9 Narrators tone toward fever hospital?
• Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples
  Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies Frankie
  gets his first exposure to literature, which he
  loves, but being quarantined is unpleasant
• 11 Four sources of comic relief

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?
• They show his social class and education level
• 9 Narrators tone toward fever hospital?
• Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples
  Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies Frankie
  gets his first exposure to literature, which he
  loves, but being quarantined is unpleasant
• 11 Four sources of comic relief
• Frankie worries about phantoms eating his
  chocolate
• Seamus says Patricia and Frankie will have enough
  to fight about when they get married
• Patricia mimics the nurse
• Kerry nurse says Frankie will damage his
  internal apparatus if he laughs

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?
• They show his social class and education level
• 9 Narrators tone toward fever hospital?
• Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples
  Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies Frankie
  gets his first exposure to literature, which he
  loves, but being quarantined is unpleasant
• 11 Four sources of comic relief
• Frankie worries about phantoms eating his
  chocolate
• Seamus says Patricia and Frankie will have enough
  to fight about when they get married
• Patricia mimics the nurse
• Kerry nurse says Frankie will damage his
  internal apparatus if he laughs
• 13 Characterization of Frankies parents?

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Typhoid Fever Literary Focus

• 7 What do Seamus words say about him?
• They show his social class and education level
• 9 Narrators tone toward fever hospital?
• Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples
  Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies Frankie
  gets his first exposure to literature, which he
  loves, but being quarantined is unpleasant
• 11 Four sources of comic relief
• Frankie worries about phantoms eating his
  chocolate
• Seamus says Patricia and Frankie will have enough
  to fight about when they get married
• Patricia mimics the nurse
• Kerry nurse says Frankie will damage his
  internal apparatus if he laughs
• 13 Characterization of Frankies parents?
  indirect
• Frankies parents emerge as weak and distant

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Literary Focus

• How is the poem about the highwayman similar to
  the story of Patricia and Frankie? Include at
  least two references to specific details in the
  story.

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Literary Focus

• How is the poem about the highwayman similar to
  the story of Patricia and Frankie? Include at
  least two references to specific details in the
  story.
• Frankie wants to be with Patricia, but the nuns
  keep them apart like the redcoats keep the
  highwayman and landlords daughter apart.

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Literary Focus

• How is poem about highwayman similar to story of
  Patricia and Frankie? Include at least two
  references to specific details in the story.
• Frankie wants to be with Patricia, but the nuns
  keep them apart like the redcoats keep the
  highwayman and landlords daughter apart.
• Like Bess, Patricia also dies.