Dialect is an authors use of speech patterns way of speaking characterizing a characters background andor geographical area or certain group of people Dialect helps to make a character and setting appear realistic ID: 604022
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Dialect
Dialect
is
an author’s use of speech patterns (way of speaking) characterizing a characters background and/or geographical area or certain group of people. Dialect helps to make a character and setting appear realistic.
A dialect becomes accepted in a culture and is adapted and used in speaking and writing. Dialect differs in its details of vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and expression. It gives hints about a character’s regional, educational, social, economic, and historical background.
Howdy, partner.
Hey, sugar. How y’all doin’?
Hi, you guys. What’s up?Slide2
Dialect
A British speaker of English uses different words: He or she speaks in a British dialect.
Everyone speaks a
dialect
of some kind. For example, in the American dialect of English, a car has a hood in front and a trunk
in back, and it runs on gas.
hood
gas tank
hood
trunk
gas tank
bonnet
boot
petrol tank
trunk
bonnet
boot
petrol tankSlide3
Dialect
Writers may use
dialect
to bring a character to life.My character is thirsty. Would she ask for . . .a soda?
a tonic?some pop?Slide4
Examples from Literature
The first line of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn illustrates the speech patterns of lower-class Mississippi Valley residents in the late nineteenth century: You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matterSlide5
Examples from Literature
William Shakespeare’s characters speak in Old English as in this line spoken by Leonato from Much Ado About Nothing:
How now, brother, where is my cousin, your son?Hath he provided this music?Slide6
Examples from Literature
Sir Thomas Malory’s work contains the Medieval dialect of Romanticism:“And thus it past on from Candylams untyl
after Ester that the moneth of May was com, . . .”Slide7
Examples from Literature
Many of Bret Harte’s characters speak in the dialect of the Old West, as demonstrated by this line from Captain Jim’s Friend:“Well, the hull thing’ll
be settled now, boys; Lacy Bassett is coming down yer to look round . . .”Slide8
Identifying DialectMatch the following words and phrases with their region, time period, or social group.
Feller a. modern teenagers
Chillin’ b. eighteenth-century QuakersSire c. the Old West
Thee d. Medieval timesPeace e. The sixtiesSlide9
Unscrambling DialectName these two familiar songs that have been written in unfamiliar dialects.
1. At the summit of a platter full of pasta enveloped in parmesan, I misplaced my distressed sphere of beef when an individual responded to an allergic trigger with a nasal scream.
2. Flash, flash, miniature sky rock. Where are you, man? Out of this world. Like a sky diamond. Flash, flash, miniature sky rock.
Where are you, man?Slide10
Turn in your Textbook to page 33
“Flowers for Algernon” by Daniel KeyesLet’s read pages 33-35Slide11
Once you have been given your number. You and your group will revise, edit, and rewrite a passage from the first 3 entries of the story.
Passages are available from the teacher.Flower’s for Algernon