Creative Suggestions:
Rewriting "Little Red Riding Hood":  Grades 9-12
 

1.  Select an author you have been studying and list the stylistics
characteristics that identify the writer.  Use the
Glossary of Stylistic and Rhetorical Devices and the text you are reading
to answer the following questions about your author:

        A.  What type of words does the author use:
                abstract, ambiguous, concise, connotative, denotative,
                didactic, exaggerated or understated, full of imagery,
                metaphoric, oxymoronic, full of pathos or logos. . . .

                Explain and quote examples:
 
 
 
 

        B.  What words does the author repeat?
 

        C.  List some adjectives used typially by the author:
 

        D.  List some of the vivid verbs used typically by the author:
 

        C.  What type of sentence structure does the author use?
                anaphoric, anecdotal, balanced, chronological,
                conclusive, cumulative, periodic, short and simple,
                deductive or inductive, epigrammatic, inverted,
                paradoxical, humorous, critical, filled with parenthesis,
                dashes, or semicolons, strung-a-long. . . .
 
                Explain and quote examples:
 
 
 
 
 
 

2.  Click here to find an acceptable version of Little Red Riding Hood.
 

3. REWITE THE STORY USING THE VOICE OF YOUR OTHER AUTHOR.