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Analyzing Literary Choices in "The Count of Monte Cristo"

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In "The Count of Monte Cristo," writers make deliberate choices about what to include or exclude, impacting the reader’s interpretation of the text. Each detail serves as a clue to the deeper meaning. As a careful reader, your task is to analyze the author’s selections of literary terms or devices. Consider what these choices reveal about characters, conflicts, or the overarching messages. By questioning the text and exploring imagery, language, and comparisons, you gain insights into the author’s intentions and thematic depth.

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Analyzing Literary Choices in "The Count of Monte Cristo"

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  1. Literary Language Dictionary The Count of Monte Cristo

  2. Writers make DELIBERATE choices about what they put in and leave out of their work. The details they include are CLUES to the (deeper) meaning of their work.

  3. Your job as a careful reader • ANALYZE and INTERPRET WHY the author chooses a particularliterary term or device in order tocreate a deeper meaning within thetext & to give you a clue as to thatmeaning.

  4. QUESTION the text! • 1) WHY this particular image, color, smell, comparison, adjective? • 2) What is he/she trying to help me better understand or reveal about • a. character? or • b. conflict? or • c. the larger message of the text?

  5. Dictionary Entries will look like this:

  6. Underline to show understanding • Underneath the book quote (on left), you must have • an explanation of WHAT the device/term HELPS THE READER • BETTER UNDERSTAND. Be sure to EXPLAIN yourself. • 1) Begin sentence with author and title • 2) Underline the term • 3) Underline helps the reader better understand • 4) Underline because

  7. An example

  8. Let’s try another one

  9. Your turn: add the 4th statement

  10. My answer • In The Pearl, Steinbeck uses the metaphor of poison sac to refer to the sentiments of the townspeople towards Kino to help the reader understandhow much the finding of the pearl has disrupted the status quo because eventually the poison or ill-will boils over and hurts Kino and his family.

  11. You try one all on your own: • The priest came in…Children, he considered these people, and he treated them like children. (pg. 27)

  12. Did you get this part?

  13. A possible answer

  14. Try another one: • And the beauty of the pearl, winking and glimmering in the light of the little candle cozened his brain with its beauty. ..It closed a door on hunger. (pg. 39)

  15. One way to answer:

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