• “Typhoid Fever”
by Frank McCourt
• Literary Focus
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• Voice: The writer’s or
speaker’s distinctive use of
language in a text. It is created
by a writer’s tone and diction.
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• Voice: The writer’s or
speaker’s distinctive use of
language in a text. It is created
by a writer’s tone and diction.
• Diction: Writer’s or speaker’s
choice of words.
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• Voice: The writer’s or
speaker’s distinctive use of
language in a text. It is created
by a writer’s tone and diction.
• Diction: Writer’s or speaker’s
choice of words.
• Tone: The attitude a writer
takes toward a subject, a
character, or the reader.
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• Voice: The writer’s or speaker’s
distinctive use of language in a
text. It is created by a writer’s tone
and diction.
• Diction: Writer’s or speaker’s
choice of words.
• Tone: The attitude a writer takes
toward a subject, a character, or
the reader.
• Comic relief: A humorous scene
in a serious literary work that
provides relief.
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
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Voice: The writer’s or speaker’s
distinctive use of language in a text. It is
created by a writer’s tone and diction.
Diction: Writer’s or speaker’s choice of
words.
Tone: The attitude a writer takes toward
a subject, a character, or the reader.
Comic relief: A humorous scene in a
serious literary work that provides relief.
Characterization:
– Direct characterization: the writer tells us
directly what the character is like.
– Indirect characterization: the reader has to
put clues together to figure out what a
character is like.
• Literary Focus
• Voice:
__________?___________
• Literary Focus
• Voice: intelligent, sensitive
boy
• Literary Focus
• Voice: intelligent, sensitive
boy
• How does McCourt recreate
diction and viewpoint of voice?
• Literary Focus
• Voice: intelligent, sensitive boy
• How does McCourt recreate
diction and viewpoint of voice?
He does not use proper
grammar (no quotation
marks for dialogue) and he
uses simple phrases and
words.
• Literary Focus
• Voice: intelligent, sensitive
boy
• How does McCourt recreate
diction and viewpoint of voice?
He does not use proper
grammar (no quotation marks
for dialogue) and he uses
simple phrases and words.
• The voice in this memoir is
poetic, because
________?________
• Literary Focus
• Voice: intelligent, sensitive boy
• How does McCourt recreate
diction and viewpoint of voice? He
does not use proper grammar (no
quotation marks for dialogue) and
he uses simple phrases and words.
• The voice in this memoir is poetic,
because he enjoys Shakespeare
and “The Highwayman” poem.
He loves literature.
• Literary Focus
• Voice: intelligent, sensitive boy
• How does McCourt recreate
diction and viewpoint of voice? He
does not use proper grammar (no
quotation marks for dialogue) and
he uses simple phrases and words.
• The voice in this memoir is poetic,
because he enjoys Shakespeare
and “The Highwayman” poem. He
loves literature.
• Author selects voice to show
how his ___?____ shaped the
_____?______.
• Literary Focus
• Voice: intelligent, sensitive boy
• How does McCourt recreate
diction and viewpoint of voice? He
does not use proper grammar (no
quotation marks for dialogue) and
he uses simple phrases and words.
• The voice in this memoir is poetic,
because he enjoys Shakespeare
and “The Highwayman” poem. He
loves literature.
• The author selected this voice to
show how his past shaped the
present.
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• What do Seamus’ words say
about him?
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• What do Seamus’ words say
about him?
– They show his social class
and education level.
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• What do Seamus’ words say
about him?
– They show his social class and
education level
• Narrator’s tone toward fever
hospital?
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• What do Seamus’ words say
about him?
– They show his social class and
education level
• Narrator’s tone toward fever
hospital?
– Bittersweet (pleasant and
painful). Examples: Frankie
meets Patricia, but she dies;
Frankie gets his first exposure
to literature, which he loves,
but being quarantined is
unpleasant
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
• What do Seamus’ words say about
him?
– They show his social class and
education level
• Narrator’s tone toward fever
hospital?
– Bittersweet (pleasant and painful).
Examples: Frankie meets Patricia, but
she dies; Frankie gets his first
exposure to literature, which he loves,
but being quarantined is unpleasant
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Four sources of comic relief:
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
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What do Seamus’ words say about him?
– They show his social class and education
level
•
Narrator’s tone toward fever hospital?
– Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples:
Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies; Frankie
gets his first exposure to literature, which he
loves, but being quarantined is unpleasant
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Four sources of comic relief:
– Frankie worries about phantoms eating his
chocolate
– Seamus says Patricia and Frankie will
have enough to fight about when they get
married
– Patricia mimics the nurse
– Kerry nurse says Frankie will damage his
“internal apparatus” if he laughs
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
•
What do Seamus’ words say about him?
– They show his social class and education
level
•
Narrator’s tone toward fever hospital?
– Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples:
Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies; Frankie
gets his first exposure to literature, which he
loves, but being quarantined is unpleasant
•
Four sources of comic relief:
– Frankie worries about phantoms eating his
chocolate
– Seamus says Patricia and Frankie will have
enough to fight about when they get married
– Patricia mimics the nurse
– Kerry nurse says Frankie will damage his
“internal apparatus” if he laughs
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Characterization of Frankie’s parents?
• “Typhoid Fever” Literary Focus
•
What do Seamus’ words say about him?
– They show his social class and education level
•
Narrator’s tone toward fever hospital?
– Bittersweet (pleasant and painful). Examples:
Frankie meets Patricia, but she dies; Frankie gets
his first exposure to literature, which he loves, but
being quarantined is unpleasant
•
Four sources of comic relief:
– Frankie worries about phantoms eating his
chocolate
– Seamus says Patricia and Frankie will have
enough to fight about when they get married
– Patricia mimics the nurse
– Kerry nurse says Frankie will damage his “internal
apparatus” if he laughs
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Characterization of Frankie’s parents? indirect
– Frankie’s parents emerge as weak and distant
• Literary Focus
• How is the poem about the
highwayman similar to the
story of Patricia and Frankie?
Include at least two references
to specific details in the story.
• Literary Focus
• How is the poem about the
highwayman similar to the
story of Patricia and Frankie?
Include at least two references
to specific details in the story.
– Frankie wants to be with
Patricia, but the nuns keep
them apart like the redcoats
keep the highwayman and
landlord’s daughter apart.
• Literary Focus
• How is poem about
highwayman similar to story of
Patricia and Frankie? Include
at least two references to
specific details in the story.
– Frankie wants to be with
Patricia, but the nuns keep
them apart like the redcoats
keep the highwayman and
landlord’s daughter apart.
– Like Bess, Patricia also dies.
• Activity
• Think about a time from your
childhood that is important,
unusual, or funny? Find a
partner and discuss this early
memory…write down your
thoughts through the ‘eyes of a
child’. Write in present tense.
Begin your writing with: “I am
eight years old…” or “I’m on a
playground…”