Describe your favorite food. Can you picture it? Smell it? Taste it? Your ability to do this depends on the writer’s use of IMAGERY

IMAGERY IMAGERY – is descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. ** This use of sensory detail helps create a emotional response within a reader. Because people rely on sight more than other senses, most imagery is visual, but imagery can also help readers hear sounds, smell aromas, and taste foods. **

Tone vs. Mood: Similar, yet Different MOOD – is the overall feeling, dominant impression, or emotional climate of a literary work, often developed, at least in part through the description of setting. TONE – is the author’s attitude toward his or her subject (event, work, characters, or reader) in a literary work.

Tone vs. Mood: Bottomline MOOD – is the feeling you get from the reading TONE – is the feeling the author is trying to project towards a subject in the reading ** An author will use various words & phrases to create a TONE or MOOD. In order to create a certain MOOD or TONE, an author must focus in on his/her DICTION. **

What is DICTION? DICTION – is word choice. Diction can be formal or informal, abstract or concrete. ** Tone and Mood are influenced by diction. In a literary work, the words an author selects gives off a certain feeling or impression. Word choice is essential in creating that impression. **

DICTION: Connotation & Denotation Diction controls the tone or mood being conveyed by a writer. Knowing that, a writer must choose his/her words carefully because CONNOTATION & DENOTATION. DENOTATION – refers to the literal or “dictionary” definition of a word. CONNOTATION – refers to the unspoken or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its literal definition.

CONNOTATION vs. DENOTATION Examples: Both “Janitor” and “Custodian” denote a person who cleans a building, yet “Custodian” has a more dignified connotation. “Odor” and fragrance” both denote “smell”, yet “odor” has a negative connotation, and “fragrance” has a more appealing connotation.

CONNOTATION vs. DENOTATION The senator introduced his mommy to the guests. The Baroness delicately slurped her soup. Paul flung down his napkin and pranced out. The United Nations assembly recessed for chow. The gale winds hurt several houses in the area.

Favorite Food Rewrite your description of your favorite food using imagery.

CREATING ORIGINALS Object Poem Emotion Poem Found Poem (Samplings)