Life of Pi Rhetorical Devices Prompt

Yann Martel wrote a riveting novel about a young religious boy, Piscine Patel, who survives being lost in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. Throughout the novel, Martel uses vivid imagery and heartbreaking diction. The passage from chapter 56 highlights Pi’s fear as he struggles to survive the treacherous Pacific Ocean with his only living companion, Richard Parker, a 450 pound Bengal Tiger. Re-read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-developed paragraph, analyze the rhetorical strategies that Martel uses to establish the mood or tone in the novel, as well as its overall meaning.

Content Tips:

  • Choose 2 devices that you identified in the passage to discuss.
  • Connect the author’s use of those devices to the meaning/purpose/tone/mood of the text.

Claim skeleton:

The author’s use of ______and ______helps to establish ______in the novel, Life of Pi.

Writing check list:

  1. _____Hook/Introduce topic
  2. _____Claim (use skeleton above)
  3. _____Lead ins to all quotes
  4. _____Textual evidence incorporated for support
  5. _____Transitions between sentences and ideas
  6. _____Original ideas, well-developed
  7. _____No personal pronouns (I, me, my)
  8. _____No contractions, abbreviations, informal language
  9. _____Avoid repetitious wording (especially at the beginnings of sentences), repetitious short, simple sentence
  10. _____Make sure article titles (if used) are in “quotation marks”
  11. _____Make sure that book title (if used) is underlined

Life of Pi Rhetorical Devices Prompt

Yann Martel wrote a riveting novel about a young religious boy, Piscine Patel, who survives being lost in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days. Throughout the novel, Martel uses vivid imagery and heartbreaking diction. The passage from chapter 56 highlights Pi’s fear as he struggles to survive the treacherous Pacific Ocean with his only living companion, Richard Parker, a 450 pound Bengal Tiger. Re-read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-developed paragraph, analyze the rhetorical strategies that Martel uses to establish the mood or tone in the novel, as well as its overall meaning.

Content Tips:

  • Choose 2 devices that you identified in the passage to discuss.
  • Connect the author’s use of those devices to the meaning/purpose/tone/mood of the text.

Claim skeleton:

The author’s use of ______and ______helps to establish ______in the novel, Life of Pi.

Writing check list:

  1. _____Hook/Introduce topic
  2. _____Claim (use skeleton above)
  3. _____Lead ins to all quotes
  4. _____Textual evidence incorporated for support
  5. _____Transitions between sentences and ideas
  6. _____Original ideas, well-developed
  7. _____No personal pronouns (I, me, my)
  8. _____No contractions, abbreviations, informal language
  9. _____Avoid repetitious wording (especially at the beginnings of sentences), repetitious short, simple sentence
  10. _____Make sure article titles (if used) are in “quotation marks”
  11. _____Make sure that book title (if used) is underlined