Feature Menu Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara Introducing the Story Literary Skills Focus: Style—Di alect Literary Skills Focus: Style— Allusions Reading Skills Focus: Analyzing Style—Literary Devices Writing Skills Focus: Think as a Reader/Writer Tech Focus
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Feature Menu Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara Introducing the Story Literary Skills Focus: Style—Dialect Literary Skills Focus: Style—Allusions Reading.
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Squeaky got her nickname because she’s small, with skinny arms and a squeaky voice.
For the first time, she faces a talented opponent. Will she keep her first-place status?
Squeaky may be small, but she has won every track meet she ever entered.
Raymond’s Run Literary Skills Focus: Dialect
Dialect is a way of speaking characteristic of a certain geographical area or certain group of people.
A dialect becomes accepted in a culture and is adapted and used in speaking and writing.
Howdy, partner.
Hey, sugar.
How y’all doin’?
Hi, you guys.
What’s up?
Raymond’s Run Literary Skills Focus: Dialect
A British speaker of English uses different words: He or she speaks in a British dialect.
Everyone speaks a dialect of some kind. For example, in the American dialect of English, a car has a hood in front and a trunk in back, and it runs on gas.
hoodgas tank
hoodtrunk
gas tank
bonnetboot
petrol tank
trunk
bonnet
boot
petrol tank
Raymond’s Run Literary Skills Focus: Dialect
Writers may use dialect to bring a character to life.
My character is
thirsty. Would she ask for . . .
a soda?
a tonic?
some pop?
Raymond’s Run Literary Skills Focus: Dialect
In “Raymond’s Run,” the main character speaks in a dialect used in New York City’s Harlem in the 1970s.
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An allusion is a reference drawn from literature, popular culture, or current events.
For example, a writer might say, “He lied so much he had a nose like Pinocchio” or “She was as sweet as Snow White.”
In both cases, the writer is making an allusion to a familiar literary character.
Raymond’s Run Literary Skills Focus: Allusions
Writers use allusions to create comparisons that make characters come to life.
The writer assumes that the reader is familiar with an allusion through general knowledge.
Even though his name was Joe, his friends
called him Honest Abe.
Raymond’s Run Literary Skills Focus: Allusions
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This story’s main character, Squeaky, speaks in dialect and uses allusions.
These and other details help create Squeaky’s voice.
Raymond’s Run Reading Skills Focus: Literary Devices
Into Action: Use a chart to record and analyze details from the text. Identify the types of literary devices (irony, figurative language, slang, dialect).
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Story Details Literary Device
“And a lot of smart mouths got lots to say about that too . . . . But now, if anybody has anything to say to Raymond, . . . they have to come to me.”