JoHoTo #3 The WOW!!! Opening, Part One
This part of the JoHoTo will be analytical. Your mission? Check out the WOW!!! opening lines below.
I'm not listing title or author of the work YET (although you probably know all of these) because I don't want your judgment to
be clouded by what you've heard about the book/author.
See if you can:
-Determine genre (you can't always, but try)
-Determine tone
-Understand what makes it WOW!!!
1. "I have been accused of being anal retentive, an overachiever, and a compulsive perfectionist, like those are bad things."
2. "Micah's breath scraped in and out of his lungs; his feet were clodded with road-mud."
3. "When my brother Fish turned thirteen, we moved to the deepest part of inland because of the hurricane and, of course, the fact that he'd caused it."
4. "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains."
5. "There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife."
6. "Piper decided to jump off the roof."
7. "She was born Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, and she did not open her eyes for three days."
8. "I'm a senior at Cesar Chavez High in San Francisco's sunny Mission district, and that makes me one of the most surveilled people in the world."
9. "I had a sister once. She was a beautiful baby, eyes silver as moonlight off the river at night."
10. "When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold."
Move on to JoHoTo #3, Part Two!
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