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Style
How does the author use language to create humor?
What is the intended response the author hopes to achieve?
Theme
What is the central idea of this text? What idea about life is the author trying to convey through humor?
my Notes
11. Once you have found textual evidence from the text “Brothers,” and made an inference about the theme, you are ready to write an analytical topic sentence. State the title, author, and genre (TAG) in your thesis or topic sentence.
For example:
Jon Scieszka’s anecdote “Brothers” is a low-level comedy that uses a comic situation, exaggeration, and comic diction to reveal a universal truth about how brothers who laugh together stick together.
Practice writing a topic sentence about the stand-up comedy using the TAG format.
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