04.03A ENGLISH 303

04.03A Elements of Style Analysis ● Choose a passage of at least 300 words from any text in the fiction, nonfiction, essays, short stories, or speeches sections of the website. ● Use the Style Analysis organizer to make notes and observations about the passage. ● Use specific examples from the text to support your points. Part 1: Copy and paste your selected passage, including title and author, in the space below. Use the organizer to make notes and observations about the elements of the author’s style. Guiding questions are included to help you develop an in-depth analysis, but every question does not have to be answered in order to have an insightful analysis. A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies. Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine clothes to wear, and plenty of good things to eat and drink, and a coach to ride out in every day: but though they had been married many years they had no children, and this grieved them very much indeed. But one day as the queen was walking by the side of the river, at the bottom of the garden, she saw a poor little fish, that had thrown itself out of the water, and lay gasping and nearly dead on the bank. Then the queen took pity on the little fish, and threw it back again into the river; and before it swam away it lifted its head out of the water and sa