Tone Of The Landlady By Roald Dahl

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In “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl, the author uses specific diction(words to create a negative tone. Using evidence from the text, explain how the author uses specific diction to take the tone from positive to negative throughout the story. Include three to four pieces of text evidence and be sure to explain how the evidence is an effective response to the task. You should have three to four paragraphs for a good response to literature.

The short story, “The Landlady” By Roald Dahl, uses specific diction cleverly which significantly affects the suspenseful tone throughout the story. Roald Dahl writes with a positive flow, but incorporates suspenseful and negative twists to keep that tone.The story flows with an emphasis to details of a negative tone and foreshadows clues which forboded a tragic ending . …show more content…

Then, Roald Dahl writes,” But the air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.”Roald Dahl starts off by describing the setting of the story but towards the end of the setting description he writes something which doesn't flow with the other sentences. This keeps the suspenseful tone intact and keeps the reader wondering what will happen next. In addition to that, when the boy was reading the bed and breakfast sign he had felt “Each word was like a large black eye staring at him . . . , holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was. . . .” (line 77-79) Roald Dahl really added an alarming and suspenseful twist because the author was talking about how bed and breakfast was a magnificent place for him to stay ,but he gets this eerie feeling all of a sudden, that the bed and breakfast sign on the house is beckoning him to

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