Style Analysis Sheet: Angela's Ashes
Nathan Kosinski
AP English Summer Work
Style Analysis Sheet: Angela’s Ashes
General Purpose
• What is your overall impression of the work? Overall, I felt that Angela’s Ashes was written in an especially noticeable personal manner. I felt this was so due to Frank McCourt’s lack of proper grammar. This gave the entire memoir a personal feel, which made the contents of the story feel as if they were being voiced, not written. • What is the most striking part of the work?
I felt the most striking part of the work was when McCourt gets his first job in the post office. Frank really expressed within his memoir how getting a job was a very important step toward becoming a man for him. Now Frank could support his family with …show more content…
An example of a compound sentence is “He opens his eyes to catch the boys who are giggling, but he can’t say anything because he still has god on his tongue and it’s a holy moment” (pg 121). Many of the compound sentences in this book lacked a comma for whatever reason. McCourt also used a variety of simple sentences that are of great length. An example of a simple sentence is “Well, if Brenda hangs on and I get me week off ye can come to the wake and have ham and cheese and cake and sherry and lemonade and everything and yes can listen to the songs and stories all night” (pg 171). Surprisingly, I didn’t seem to find many complex sentences throughout Angela’s Ashes at all. Even though this is the case, the formatting of the dialogue in this book makes it seem like there’s plenty of complex sentences, due to McCourt’s lack of quotation marks. There were not many verbal phrases noticeable throughout the work. Since people naturally use prepositional phrases while telling a story, there were a decent amount of prepositional phrases written throughout the memoir. An example of a prepositional phrase is “When you have your father to yourself by the fire in the morning you don’t need Cuchulain or the Angel on the Seventh Step or anything” (pg
AP English Summer Work
Style Analysis Sheet: Angela’s Ashes
General Purpose
• What is your overall impression of the work? Overall, I felt that Angela’s Ashes was written in an especially noticeable personal manner. I felt this was so due to Frank McCourt’s lack of proper grammar. This gave the entire memoir a personal feel, which made the contents of the story feel as if they were being voiced, not written. • What is the most striking part of the work?
I felt the most striking part of the work was when McCourt gets his first job in the post office. Frank really expressed within his memoir how getting a job was a very important step toward becoming a man for him. Now Frank could support his family with …show more content…
An example of a compound sentence is “He opens his eyes to catch the boys who are giggling, but he can’t say anything because he still has god on his tongue and it’s a holy moment” (pg 121). Many of the compound sentences in this book lacked a comma for whatever reason. McCourt also used a variety of simple sentences that are of great length. An example of a simple sentence is “Well, if Brenda hangs on and I get me week off ye can come to the wake and have ham and cheese and cake and sherry and lemonade and everything and yes can listen to the songs and stories all night” (pg 171). Surprisingly, I didn’t seem to find many complex sentences throughout Angela’s Ashes at all. Even though this is the case, the formatting of the dialogue in this book makes it seem like there’s plenty of complex sentences, due to McCourt’s lack of quotation marks. There were not many verbal phrases noticeable throughout the work. Since people naturally use prepositional phrases while telling a story, there were a decent amount of prepositional phrases written throughout the memoir. An example of a prepositional phrase is “When you have your father to yourself by the fire in the morning you don’t need Cuchulain or the Angel on the Seventh Step or anything” (pg