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Unit 1: Reviewing Parts of Speech and How Diction Creates Meaning

Unit 1: Reviewing Parts of Speech and How Diction Creates Meaning . How can grammar control a reader’s understanding and create a distinguished style?. Learning Targets. I can define and identify parts of speech in a text.

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Unit 1: Reviewing Parts of Speech and How Diction Creates Meaning

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  1. Unit 1: Reviewing Parts of Speech and How Diction Creates Meaning How can grammar control a reader’s understanding and create a distinguished style?

  2. Learning Targets • I can define and identify parts of speech in a text. • I can collaborate effectively with my peers by staying focused on a task and contributing my own ideas. As a group we can create new ideas, present information and discuss our opinions. • I can present my understanding of a topic to peers in an audible, organized, coherent manner. • I can analyze impact of specific diction and its impact on a text’s meaning, style, or tone.

  3. Diction • The choice and use of words within a piece of writing

  4. Parts of Speech • Noun: a word used to identify people, places, things, or ideas

  5. Parts of Speech • Pronoun: a word that replaces a noun. Since it REPLACES a noun, a noun must be used FIRST.

  6. Parts of Speech • Adjective: a word that describes a noun; tells how many, what kind and which one

  7. Parts of Speech • Verb: a word that describes an action, state of being, or helps create tense

  8. Parts of Speech • Adverb: a word that describes a verb or adjective; tells when, where, how, why; normally ends in -ly

  9. Parts of Speech • Preposition: a word (usually appearing before a noun) that shows position, location, or relationships between words

  10. Parts of Speech • Conjunction: a word that links ideas together (FANBOYS)

  11. Learning Targets • I can define and identify parts of speech in a text. • I can collaborate effectively with my peers by staying focused on a task and contributing my own ideas. As a group we can create new ideas, present information and discuss our opinions. • I can present my understanding of a topic to peers in an audible, organized, coherent manner. • I can analyze impact of specific diction and its impact on a text’s meaning, style, or tone.

  12. Effects of Diction Mood Tone • The feeling or emotion a piece of writing conveys • The author’s or speaker’s attitude about a topic But his tone is threatening His mood is upset

  13. Two Views of Diction Denotation Connotation • This is the literal definition of a word • This is the emotional feeling or CONNECTION people make with a word Examine the following words – all used to describe someone who looks attractive – and rank them from most to least appropriate for a father to say to his daughter. hot good-looking beautiful sexy attractive

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