Begin by reading a passage of dialogue taken from Half Brother by Kenneth Oppel in which Ben is talking with his mom and dad about the learning chair.
Next, Listen to two conversations from Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince:
Discuss with a partner what you learned about dialogue and write a reflection of what you noticed and post in the comments below. Include responses to the following questions in your response. Final paragraph should be approximately 10-15 lines in length and contain the names of both partners.
1. What did you learn about the way people speak?
2. How can we learn about a character by the way they engage in conversation?
3. What are the main similarities and differences between conversations that occur in writing and conversations that occur orally?
4. What techniques or strategies do you notice writers use to try and capture the 'real sound' of a conversation?
6 comments:
In the video they spoke very fluently. They didn't add random thoughts in between their sentences. If they use a "ahhh" or a "huummmmm," they probably don't remember things very well. In the book passage, they didn't use words/sounds like ahh or huummmmm but you could tell by the sence of tone if they were either sad, mad or happy. In an oral conversation, they use more sounds in their sentences...like ahh. But when you read it , they seem to leave out sounds and just write the sentences probably because it is easier to read. To capture the real sound of the conversation, they use puncutation like a ! or a ? Sometimes they will use multiple amounts of puncutation.
Zack & Matt
When people speak orally, they tend to use hand gestures. They also have the natural reaction to respond to questions. You can also easily understand their character by the tone, and way they speak. If they have a uplifted voice, chances are they are a happy, spontaneous person. If they speak lazily they probably aren't too nice, and don't care about the conversation as much. As for in books, you have to interpret the tone of their voice for yourself. You basically take the character into your own hands, and play it off the use of words and punctuation (question marks, semi colons, and exclamation points).
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The people speak with good grammar. Also, they speak very fluently with lots of expression and hand gestures.
We can learn there personality. This is because if you learn to how they speak you can see if they are angry, happy, nice etc...
The main similarities is the grammar, and expression. The main differences are face expression, and hand gestures.
Some techniques writers use are exclamation marks, bolding, all caps, question marks, and how they end a conversation, for example, he whispered.
The speak very fluently and have a very good pronunciation while staying in character. The tone of a persons voice can determine their emotion. You can tell by the emotion and the chose of words, for example: if you say, nice shot or wow that was an amazing shot. They use diffrent words to explain how the character is speaking, for example: i miss my dad Richerd cried.
When they talk to each other they talk with extremely good grammar and lots of expression.
We can learn what kind of personality someone had by the way they talk and use expression. Some similarities between conversation and writing are using gestures and helping you know when they are whispering. The techniques writers use to make it sound like a conversation are using question marks and using italics bolding and exclamation marks.
I now know that every one speaks differently. When people speak if they forget what they were going to say ahh or humm to try to remember what they wanted to say. Also people in the USA think Canadians say eh at the end of our sentences.
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