Unpacking the Writer's Effect

This worksheet helps grade 9 students analyze and understand the techniques writers use to create specific effects on their readers, focusing on literary devices and stylistic choices.

Grade 9 ELA WritingWriting ProcessWriter's Effect

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.9-10.5

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Unpacking the Writer's Effect

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Read each question carefully and provide thoughtful answers. Pay close attention to how writers use language to achieve specific effects.

Reading Passage: Excerpt from 'The Great Gatsby'

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since. 'Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,' he told me, 'just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.' He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. It was a habit of mind then, and he had been a man of few words, and he had always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that. In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has afforded me many curious natures and also preserved me from an inordinate amount of grief.

1. What is the primary effect of the narrator's father's advice in the opening paragraph?

It makes the narrator feel superior to others.

It encourages the narrator to be more judgmental.

It establishes the narrator's non-judgmental perspective.

It creates a sense of tension between the narrator and his father.

2. Identify one literary device used in the passage and explain its effect on the reader.

3. The phrase 'unusually communicative in a reserved way' is an example of , which creates a sense of about the father's character.

4. The narrator's father's advice directly leads to the narrator becoming more critical of others.

True

False

5. Analyze how Fitzgerald's word choice and sentence structure in the provided excerpt contribute to the overall tone and the reader's perception of the narrator.