1. Reading Bellwork
Week 18: Diction

2. Library Day! Bring All Books!
Monday, January 23
Write the definitions for:
1. Diction: word choice intended to convey a certain effect.
2. Style: each writer’s distinctive use of language.
3. Details: specific, descriptive information or facts in a literary work
4. Figurative Language: words that describe one thing in terms of something else, not to be taken literally (ex. metaphor, understatement, imagery, hyperbole).
5. Imagery: text that creates a mental picture and appeals to the five senses.

3. Tuesday, January 24th
Write out the notes on tone and fill in the blanks in the sentence.
1. _________ determines if writing is formal or informal. “I am much obliged to you sir.” vs. “Thanks a bunch buddy!”
2. Diction can make a novel seem more authentic if slang or period appropriate _____________are used.
Dude, it’s reading time!
Complete one TCJ while you read.
Remember: Use quotation marks and the page number.
Correct Format: Author’s name (Last, First.) Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Source Type.
1. Diction 2. authentic

4. Wednesday, January 25th
1. Read the excerpt and identify an example of diction that creates a style. His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of chance he had for young love. Everybody else going through the terror and joy of their first crushes, their first dates, their first kisses while Oscar sat in the back of the class, behind his DM’s screen, and watched his adolescence stream by. Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years. – The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz
Informal language- invented word “nerdliness” and slang “sucks”

5. Thursday, January 26th Dude, it’s reading time!
Write out the sentences on style and fill in the blanks.
Style in writing varies by _________ and depends on syntax ( sentence structure), diction (___________), and tone.
It can also be described as the ______ that readers hear when they read the author’s work.
Dude, it’s reading time!
Complete one TCJ while you read.
Remember: Use quotation marks and the page number.
Correct Format: Author’s name (Last, First.) Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Source Type.
Author
Word choice
Voice

6. Friday, January 27th https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjAiUbdl14
What does figurative language offer a reader?
Dude, it’s reading time!
Complete one TCJ while you read.
Remember: Use quotation marks and the page number.
Correct Format: Author’s name (Last, First.) Title of Book. City of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Source Type.

7. Quiz Matching: 1. Diction A. author’s voice
2. Figurative language B. word choice
3. Imagery C. facts/narration
4. Details D. nonliteral description
5. Style E. five senses description

8. Quiz Matching: 6. Diction and figurative language contribute to this
7. Metaphor, understatement, and hyperbole are included as this
8. A description that “paints a picture” in your mind
A. imagery C. style
B. diction D. figurative language

9. Quiz Matching: 9. can be formal or informal
10. may include factual statements or imagery and figurative language.
A. style C. imagery
B. diction D. details