Once again the author, Kenneth Oppel, has selected certain words to help the reader get a feel for the mood of the chapter. Consider the following passage from the text:
Complete darkness did not greet us this time, but pale light, revealing a chamber even bigger than the last. Dark, silhouetted shapes hunched everywhere, as if ready to stand or spring. Our torch beams danced about nervously. Against the far wall was a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows, all iced over. Looming darkly in the corner was an enormous machine, bent like a gargantuan crone, peering out the window. It looked to me like a telescope. (p. 202)
- What images do the words in bold create in your mind?
- What is the mood these word choices help to create (If this were a scene in a movie, then how would you feel watching it?). You may need to use a dictionary to help you understand some of the words.
The shapes
ReplyDeleteThe bold face makes me picture, opening a door, coming to a gray half light room, hunched people in the shadows, bright light dancing on the shapes. A big, huge thing, like a type of telescope in the corner peering out of a wall made of windows. It makes me feel scared yet curios, I want to go on /read more, be in that very room.
Sara
The bold face writing makes me feel like I’m in the book on the Hyperion. The bold face make it more exciting and interesting. The mood I feel is like I’m getting scared.
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The shapes
ReplyDeleteThe bold face makes me picture, opening a door, coming to a gray half light room, hunched people in the shadows, bright light dancing on the shapes. A big, huge thing, like a type of telescope in the corner peering out of a wall made of windows. It makes me feel scared yet curios, I want to go on /read more, be in that very room.
Rowen
I think that when they go back on the ship that they will find a nother dark room and that the roof will be hunched over so they need to crouch in that room. There torch beams dance around nervously around the room. A looming dark corner crossed mats line of sight and thought it was a machine.
ReplyDeletenila
The words in bold face create a picture in my mind of a dim light shining on the old air ship with dark shades hunched everywhere in the room. As the torch beams went from side to side it felt like there was something there in my mind. The looming darkness with the giant machine made my mind create a giant dark shape in the corner.
ReplyDeleteThe mood these words help to create is mysteries and scary. If this were a movie scene I would feel scared and curios of what would happen next.
Emma
I feel that the BOLD words are important and they get me exited about the book. They also make me want to read more!
ReplyDeleteConnor
The Bolded words create images that give me ideas and thoughts that tell me the mood about the people and part of the story. It gives me extra information about the book. These Bolded help me create and if it was in a movie, I could imagine how they would feel in that scene.
ReplyDeleteAnoop
They create in my mind dark creepy characters, like in a haunted mansion. Movies like that make me all tense. It makes me feel all scared, like someone is creeping up behind them, and about to attack. It also makes me feel like someone is behind me!
ReplyDeleteAyden
The bold words create images in by putting creepy haunted characters or people coming alive.
ReplyDeletekirit
I think that it looks like this there is a telescope with a big a machine under and it is looking out of the window and scanning the sky’s for the jelly fish things. The bolds word mean to me that the author was trying to get a good picture in your mind and it is a word that is going to make a lot a detail to your picture in your mind. I kind of think that there should be a movie I don’t want there to be a movie because all of the chatters would not look like what I think they look like. Why I want there to be a movie because it would be neat to see what other people think what all of the chatter look like and what people visualize in their minds.
ReplyDeleteThomas
In my mind complete darkness means a fully dark room. Dark silhouetted shapes hunched everywhere would make me think they were going to jump out at me. Danced about nervously would mean to me shadows in the dark trying to scare me. Looming darkly means someone would be following me to see what I would do next, and gargantuan crone to me sounds like a giant big scary monster. To me gargantuan crone means in my mind big scary creatures coming at me and trying to haunt me. If this was a movie I would think it would be kind of interesting and scary but I think it would be a very cool movie I would want to watch it if this was a movie.
ReplyDeleteAbby
I liked what Abby did because she put in a lot of detail and she put a lot of work in to it her paragraph. I liked the descriptive words she used in her sentences like committed. Abby did a good job with her paragraph because she took her time, was really creative and put as much detail as she could.
DeleteEmma
I think it would be a graphic interesting move that is realistic and thrilling. Just listening to it makes me feel like I want to hear more. It even paints an exiting picture in my mind!
ReplyDeleteBy: Connor
The images in my head that the boldface words create are Matt, Kate, Naderia, and Hail, are entering a dimed room with machines everywhere. There torch lights scattering the room looking for gold or maybe riches but what they found was not gold but a wired machine that looked like a telescope. Matt thought would be of god use Hail was not interested! The mood word choices help me create a scare felling but a little exited and nerves. If it were a movie I would love to watch it!
ReplyDelete-Declin :D
The bold word creates images in my mind so I can pictures what matt is seeing when he is walking into the room and sees all of the machines.
ReplyDeleteNicholas
1. The words in bold created spooky pictures of all of the machines and taxidermy that have not been used or alive in decades. As I read the passage I felt as if I was in the same room, feeling the same emotions as the main characters in the story.
ReplyDelete2.As I was reading the passage the words that were in bold helped create scary, dark and ghostly moods in my mind.
Emily
The word complete darkness crates in my mind nothing to see it is just plain black. The word dark silhouetted shapes hunched everywhere in my mind shows little scary creatures. The word danced about nervously crates in my mind someone who dose not want to do something. Looming darkly crates in my mind someone who is fallowing people without telling. Gargantuan crone crates in my mind is a figure that is hunched over.
ReplyDeleteI would love to watch this movie because I like adventure and a bit of scaryness.
The bold words create images in my mind for me to understand that it is an important word for me to pay attention. It also creates dramatic thoughts in my mind.
ReplyDeletechloe
These words create scared moods in my mind but I would watch this movie.
ReplyDeletekirit
The word complete darkness crates in my mind nothing to see it is just plain black. The word dark silhouetted shapes hunched everywhere in my mind shows little scary creatures. The word danced about nervously crates in my mind someone who dose not want to do something. Looming darkly crates in my mind someone who is fallowing people without telling. Gargantuan crone crates in my mind is a figure that is hunched over.
ReplyDeleteI would love to watch this movie because I like adventure and a bit of scaryness.
Campbell
The bold in the picture that I see is really big and it really stands out so that when you read it you can understand it
ReplyDeleteThe mood in then picture creates my mind that the book really stands out to the person.
Callista
The words in BOLD create in my are interested and excited. It makes a picture in side of my head the picture is a dark room with a little bit of light from the 4 torches and the Arizonan flying around the room thinking any moment it could kill!
ReplyDeleteRyan
The words in BOLD create are interested and excited. It makes a picture in side of my head the picture is a dark room with a little bit of light from the 4 torches and the Arizonan flying around the room thinking any moment it could kill!
ReplyDeleteRyan
1) These are the images that came into my mind when I read the blurb of writing was a room with some light shining through the windows silhouetted people looking shapes down low by the floor torch beams were dancing back and forth because our hands were shaking looking very dark in a corner was a gargantuan telescope looking out the window.
ReplyDelete2) If it was a movie I would feel good about watching the movie because the moods that came to me were exciting surprised and nervous
Trevor
Hyperion
ReplyDeleteThe words create a black whole that sucks me in and I want to read more. I like to read sky breaker because of these words.
logan
1.)The images in my mind are, the pale white light coming into the room, the silhouetted shapes everywhere, their torch beams dancing, and the enormous machine sitting in the corner.
ReplyDelete2.)If this book was a movie I would love to watch it! My moods would be excited, happy and nervous.
Stephanie
When he said complete darkness I imagined a room that you could not see a toll. When he said that the dark shapes where everywhere I imagined dark scary shapes. When he said the torches danced about nervously I imagined there hand shaking. When he said the where things looming I imagined thing behind me. When he said gargantuan crone I imagined I massif thing
ReplyDeletecallum
The word complete darkness feels like something that’s going to creep up behind me and make me jump out of my skin. Dark, silhouetted shapes hunched everywhere feels like the shape of the figures or going to jump right at me. The word danced around nervously feels like our light is going to burn out. Looming darkly feels like something staring behind me. Gargantuan crone feels like an old witch.
ReplyDeleteKaitlyn
The words in bold face make me feel lonely, scared and anxious. The images also create the feeling that I’m in a small space. The words “gargantuan crone” make me think that there is a huge creature looming over me.
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