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Writing Workshop 4 (continued)
Setting
Setting is the time, place, and conditions in which the story happens.
10. What is the setting for the story? Circle the words and phrases that help make the setting believable.
Dialogue
The main purpose of dialogue is communication between characters. It provides information, reveals the characters, and helps to move the story along.
11. Reread the dialogue exchanges involving the Kobra, Melvin, Priscilla, and Monk. What do the conversations reveal about the following?
• The Kobra: • Melvin:
• Priscilla:
• Monk:
• The plot:
12. Scan the story to find examples of figurative language. Underline them and, in the margins of the story, describe their effect on the author’s style and the tone of the story. Consider whether each example suggests a certain tone, provides a description, or helps us to understand a character’s attitude.
13 A literary allusion is a figure of speech that references a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. It calls something to the mind of the reader without describing the thing in detail. Identify some of the allusions Peck uses in his story, and consider how they affect the style and tone of the story.
Allusion
Effect on the Story
Sample responses:
The school was old Monk’s Garden of Eden.
. . . the serpent in the Kobras’ Eden was a girl. Even beautiful, in a bionic way.
You talk about the Odd Couple.
Gives a sense of Monk’s easy life as a bully Gives us a hint about Monk’s eventual defeat. Gives a sense of Priscilla’s great strength
Lets us know that these two are opposites in many ways
6 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 8
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