DICTION
What type of diction is “Of all the creatures that breathe and move upon Earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man”? (Homer, The Odyssey)
What is poetic diction?
How is tone different than diction?
Diction refers to the word choices the author makes, but the tone is the...
What is tone is the attitude or feelings the author’s words express?
In this example what are the abstract nouns? “One of Abraham’s goals as president was to end slavery and declare freedom from forced servitude? Hint there are 3!
What is slavery, freedom, and servitude?
What type of diction is “pass the buck”?
Hint: It originated in the 19th century during card games.
What is colloquial diction?
Name four adjectives that have a negative tone?
What is dark, gloomy, pompous, tense, pedantic, foreboding, etc?
Which of these are abstract?
Courage, equipment, friendship, exploration
What is courage, friendship, and exploration?
What type of diction is “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)?
What is pedantic diction?
Name 6 adjectives that convey a positive tone?
What is energetic, enthusiastic, humorous, optimistic, respectful, whimsical, nostalgic, etc?
What is a concrete noun?
A. Any noun that describes a type of building material.
B. Any noun that describes something harder than concrete.
C. Any noun that describes a person,place, thing, or idea.
D. Any noun that can be recognized through any of the five senses
What is D? Any noun that can be recognized through any of the five senses
What type of diction appears in short stories?
What is informal diction?
What type of tone is this?
"But I feel peaceful. Your success in the ring this morning was, to a small degree, my success. Your future is assured. You will live, secure and safe, Wilbur. Nothing can harm you now. These autumn days will shorten and grow cold. The leaves will shake loose from the trees and fall. Christmas will come, and the snows of winter. You will live to enjoy the beauty of the frozen world, for you mean a great deal to Zuckerman and he will not harm you, ever. Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing, the frogs will awake, the warm wind will blow again. All these sights and sounds and smells will be yours to enjoy, Wilbur-this lovely world, these precious days …"
What is a peaceful tone?
What is the concrete noun in the sentence?: The dog quickly ran to his owner.
What is dog?
If I wanted to draw up some legal papers for my friend’s divorce what type of diction should I implement in the writing?
What is formal diction?
What type of tone is this?
Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasonable fears. Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair. Phrases crept into the language expressing man’s revulsion or ignorance—“Bat’s in the Belfry,” “Batty,” “Blind as a Bat.”
What is informational tone?
She has great taste in clothes. Identify the abstract nouns in the above sentence?
What is taste? (it is taste because it refers to someone’s specific preference which you cannot characterize)