Target: To share the effect of the stylistic elements you found reading "The Box Man."
1. Get in groups.
2. Quietly reread "The Box Man." Annotate as you notice new elements: syntax, diction, structure
3. Share and discuss the elements you noticed in the three passages and their effects. Add to your charts.
4.Tone question: http://goo.gl/Xn34EI
5. Examples of excellent thesis statements from the Ernie Pyle analysis:
Ernie Pyle utilizes concrete language, stark imagery, and euphemism to illustrate the vast destruction and expendable waste of war. --Ava Flaherty
Ernie Pyle uses horrific diction, extremely effectively, to portray to the American people that everything in war is expendable: tanks, boats, jeeps, lives, and everything gets destroyed. Nothing is left untouched. ---Cole LeTourneau
Ernie Pyle is trying to communicate the tragedy [in the accumulation of small scale losses]. He is conveying that while Americans won [the battle on D-day], we lost much more than necessary, as the American citizens continued their lives while men lost theirs, or at least everything in it. Pyle focuses on the small things because it creates a bigger emotional [impact] on the reader by helping them relate [to the dead men as fellow human beings]. We paid a price for entrance into Europe. ---Lottie Knippen
Ernie Pyle uses horrific diction, extremely effectively, to portray to the American people that everything in war is expendable: tanks, boats, jeeps, lives, and everything gets destroyed. Nothing is left untouched. ---Cole LeTourneau
Ernie Pyle is trying to communicate the tragedy [in the accumulation of small scale losses]. He is conveying that while Americans won [the battle on D-day], we lost much more than necessary, as the American citizens continued their lives while men lost theirs, or at least everything in it. Pyle focuses on the small things because it creates a bigger emotional [impact] on the reader by helping them relate [to the dead men as fellow human beings]. We paid a price for entrance into Europe. ---Lottie Knippen
6. Compose a thesis for the analysis of this essay. How does she use stylistic elements and rhetorical devices to achieve her purpose?
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