Charlie

Title: If You Come Softly
Author: Jaqueline Wodson
Pages: 181
Genre: Romance
Motif: A recurrent image, symbol, theme, character type, subject, or narrative detail that becomes a unifying element. The fact that Jeremiah was Black and Ellie was white gave the story a different point of view. Sometimes it included other people questioning their relationship or just sharing. The type of characters also were a motif. Miah and Ellie bolth were kind people and that no matter howdifferent they were from each other, they always were nice to each other and always showed love for eac other.
Dialogue: The words spoken by characters in a fictional work or participants in a nonfiction film. The words in this story that are spoken by the characters are emotions such as showing their love for each other and their feelings. Most of their conversations are when they are holding hands. A good part of the book with alot of dialogue is when they bolth cut class and take a walk together. There is alot of dialogue until Jeremiah quotes "so are you gonna let me kiss you" then everythingis all descriptions.
Diction: The writer’s choice of words. A stylistic element that helps conveys voice and tone. The writer chose to write this book slow. The scenes where Jeremiah and Ellie are together, every movement is mentioned with thoughts and feelings about every movement. For example, before Jeremiah and Ellie firt kiss, they describe thoughts and picture after every inch closer they move to each others lips. Then when they kiss the writer describes how his lips feel and how warm they are.
Syntax: The arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence. The way in which words are put together to make meaningful elements such as phrases, clauses, and sentences. The arrangement of words in this story are quotes and thoughts mixed into little paragraphs. Every thought is noted in this book, every movement when Ellie and Miah are together is noted.