Blog Post #4 Analysis Chart

	Definition	Quote Example from Summer Reading	Effect of Literary Device	Effect of this literary device in my summer Reading Passage
Tone and Mood	The feeling that is made for the audience through the work of literature. Mood is the speakers attitude toward the literature	“They can touch if they like, but don’t because they know things will never be the same,” (Morrison 324).	Tone and mood help cultivate a relationship between the author and the reader therefore enhancing the power of the text.	The author establishes the dark tone through this one line, it mainly establishes the context that once someone dwells into the darkness it will be hard to untangle from it.
Diction	The choice and use of words and phrases in speech and writing; the style of enunciation in speaking or singing	“Occasionally, however, the rustle of a skirt hushes when they wake, and the knuckles brushing a cheek in sleep seem to belong to the sleeper,” (Morrison 324)	Diction can be used to evoke certain emotions due to word choice; associated with MOOD and TONE. The choice of the word hushes in the quotation creates a mood.	The diction such as “hushes” helps to create the intended effect of labeling the darkness still present in minute traces within the household.
Figurative Language	Language within literature that invokes a strong sense of mood. References to metaphorical language	“They forgot her like a bad dream,” (Morrison 323).	Allows for the reader to connect with the text at a more personal level by connecting an idea in the text with the real world applications	The figurative language when referring to a “bad dream,: A bad dream is an endless concept that is still applied centuries later therefore the line allows for the post-civil war set piece to connect with the modern audience.
Imagery	A description of how something feels, tastes, smells, looks, or hears	“It took longer for those who had spoken to her, lived with her, fallen in love with her, to forget until they realized they couldn’t remember or repeat a simple thing she said, and began to believe that,” (Morrison 324)	Imagery can be used to form a tone and mood through the description of the five senses and allows for a sense of lightness or darkness to be created.	The object of “her” refers to Beloved who is mainly appearing to the audience through vision and sound.
Syntax	The arrangement of words, clauses or phrases in order to evoke emotion. Different sentence lengths help to connect sentences.	“In the place where long grass opens, the girl who waited to be loved and cry shame erupts into her separate parts, to make it easy for the chewing laughter to swallow her all away. It was not a story to pass on,” (Morrison 323).	Syntax helps to keep a consistent pace for a reader to follow. Therefore, allowing the reader to interpret information through a much more emotional pathway.	The transition between two sections heavily uses syntax to depict the mood. The transition of intense medium lines transfer into one short line creating a sense of intense subtleness.