Monday, November 25, 2013

Tone and Diction

Tone
 
The narrator’s tone is light and casual, he encourages his readers not to take his story too seriously by making  jokes. The narrator’s tone becomes darker when great danger is faced , but for the most part, the story is brightly and warmly narrated.
Ex: 
"Lumme, if i knows! What are yer?"
"Bilbo Baggins, a bur-a hobbit," said poor Bilbo, shaking all over, and wondering how to make owl-noises before they throttled him.
"A burrahobbit?" said they a bit startled. Trolls are slows in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them. 
"Whats a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket anyways?" said William.  (The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolkien, pg 36)


Diction
The narrator's diction is casual and slightly advanced, he uses words that keep his readers attention but not careful not to use too much advanced diction that would confuse the reader.
Ex: 
"Why, O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole!" said poor Mr Baggins bumping up and down on Bombur's back.  "Why, O why did I ever bring a wretched little hobbit on a treasure hunt!" said poor Bombur, who was fat, and staggered along with sweat dripping down his nose in his heat and terror." (The Hobbit, J.R.R Tolklein, pg 66)

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