DIDLS
Diction:
Connotative Words: children, diving, tunnel, goggles, frowning, blue, mother, water, bay, beach.
Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic (60 - 40).
Casual.
Concrete and Abstract.
Colloquial Diction: "darling" and "mummy."
Monosyllabic and Polysyllabic (60 - 40).
Casual.
Concrete and Abstract.
Colloquial Diction: "darling" and "mummy."
Imagery:
Simile: "He can swim like a fish."
Symbolism: underwater tunnel and Jerry's mother's arm.
Personification: "... and dived into the blue pool among the fanged and angry borders."
Overstatement: "... the air was full of falling bodies."
Paradox:
Irony: Jerry was the only one who worried about the biggest boy.
Allusion: "Bonjour! Merci! Au revoir! Monsieur, monsieur!"
Metaphor: "There she was a speck of yellow under an umbrella..."
Symbolism: underwater tunnel and Jerry's mother's arm.
Personification: "... and dived into the blue pool among the fanged and angry borders."
Overstatement: "... the air was full of falling bodies."
Paradox:
Irony: Jerry was the only one who worried about the biggest boy.
Allusion: "Bonjour! Merci! Au revoir! Monsieur, monsieur!"
Metaphor: "There she was a speck of yellow under an umbrella..."
Details:
Significance of Title: Jerry's transition from being a boy to a man.
Omissions: where they are or where the beach is.
Other Details: the color of their skin and the language the other boys spoke in.
Omissions: where they are or where the beach is.
Other Details: the color of their skin and the language the other boys spoke in.
Language:
Emotional
Conversational
English/British Colloquial
Conversational
English/British Colloquial
Sentence Structure:
The sentence length does fit the subject matter.
The sentence length is effective because it shows a lot of detail.
Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences are present.
The beginnings of the sentences do not have a variety or pattern.
There is no arrangement of ideas in the sentences.
Each new paragraph starts with a new thought, which is the pattern of the arrangement of ideas in the paragraphs.
Ellipses: "He counted one, two, three..."
Dash: "Fish again - myriads of minute fish..."
Semicolon: "He was trembling with fear that he would not go; and he was trembling with horror at that long, long tunnel under the rock, under the
sea."
Exclamation Point: "Look at me! Look!"
The sentence length is effective because it shows a lot of detail.
Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences are present.
The beginnings of the sentences do not have a variety or pattern.
There is no arrangement of ideas in the sentences.
Each new paragraph starts with a new thought, which is the pattern of the arrangement of ideas in the paragraphs.
Ellipses: "He counted one, two, three..."
Dash: "Fish again - myriads of minute fish..."
Semicolon: "He was trembling with fear that he would not go; and he was trembling with horror at that long, long tunnel under the rock, under the
sea."
Exclamation Point: "Look at me! Look!"