Literary Voice

We listened to four distinct pop culture voices today: Homer Simpson, Darth Vader, Jessica Rabbit, & Bunsen Honeydew. After listening to them we wrote down the characteristics that made their voices unique.

From those characteristics, we generalized a definition for voice. We came up with this impressive definition! Make sure you have this in your notes.

VOICE is . . .

• pitch (high/medium/low)
• speed (fast/slow)
• accent
• volume (loud/soft)
• tone/mood/attitude
• word choice/phrases
• sentences (long/short; simple/complex)

Voice is one way that writers use characterization in literature. (Make sure you have the characterization notes from the poster in the room. Too complicated to put here!)

Today's Vocab:
scrupulous (adj.)
The nuns at my Catholic school were scrupulous, because they always did the right and moral thing. They also made sure we acted scrupulously and morally too!