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Diction Mini-Lesson

Diction Mini-Lesson. APE Lit August 18, 2011. Diction. What is diction? Diction is word choice. Word choice is the foundation of voice. Effective voice is shaped by words that are clear, concrete and exact. Appropriateness. Formal Scholarly writing, serious prose, poetry Informal

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Diction Mini-Lesson

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  1. Diction Mini-Lesson APE Lit August 18, 2011

  2. Diction • What is diction? • Diction is word choice. • Word choice is the foundation of voice. • Effective voice is shaped by words that are clear, concrete and exact.

  3. Appropriateness • Formal • Scholarly writing, serious prose, poetry • Informal • Expository essays, newspaper editorials, works of fiction • Colloquial (Slang/Informal Speech) • Create a mood, capture a historic or regional dialect

  4. Denotation/Connotation • Denotation • Connotation

  5. What if you don’t know the word? At this level, skipping words you don’t know is tantamount to wearing earplugs at a symphony. Don’t do it. Look those words up! If you read on a Nook or a Kindle you benefit from a built-in dictionary. Use it.

  6. Diction Exercise #1 (Together) • “Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.” • Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson • By using the word antidote, what does the author imply about the inability to feel for another? • If we changed the word antidote to gift, what effect would it have on the meaning of the sentence?

  7. Diction Exercise #2 (On Your Own) • Once I am sure there’s nothing going onI step inside, letting the door thud shut. Philip Larkin, “Church Going” • What feelings are evoked by the word thud? • How would the meaning change if the speaker let the door slam shut? • Identify five verbs expressing the closing of a door. Record the feelings each of these verbs evoke.

  8. Homework • **Summer reading journals due Friday** • For Friday 8/19 - Perrine’s • Read poems and explanatory text on pp. 757-763 • Answer the following questions in your journals. • p. 758: Q1&2 • p. 760: Q1-4 • p. 763: Q1-4 • For Monday 8/22 – Perrine’s • Read poems on pp. 766 -768 • Complete questions for all four poems (pp. 766-769)

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