Class notes (10/11-10/22)

Tone
-speaker/narrator's attitude toward the present subject/moment/events
-can and often changes often
-described in terms of emotion
-an effect created by the author's choices in techniques

Voice
-speaker/narrator's personality toward life/the world in general
-can change if the character is dynamic, but doesn't change often
-described in terms of character
-created by techniques

 

Style
-author's "written personality"
-made up artificial persona's stance (choice, a part of them)
-stable throughout all of a writers work, but can change with time
-described in terms of character
-created by techniques

 

Rhythm & Meter
-Rhythm: refers to any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound

• Accented or stressed syllables pronounce rhythm
• end-stopped line: the end of the line corresponds to a natural speech pause
• run-on line: the line has the sense of moving without pause to the next line
• caesuras: pauses that occur between lines, can be grammatical or rhetorical

-Meter: the identifying characteristic of rhythmic language

• ex: the thing you tap you feet to
• accents of language seem to appear at regular intervals
• foot: consists of normally one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables 

Sound & Meaning
-Onomatopoeia: words that supposedly sound like what they mean, hiss, snap, bang, etc
-Phonetic intensives: sound word connects to its meaning

• fl- = flame, flicker, flash
• gl- = glare, gleam, glint, glow

-euphonious: smooth or pleasant sounding
-cacophonous: rough or rough sounding