New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 4
Why is it important to use precise language? Participants explore this question in the fourth activity in a series of 15 on effective instruction. Perfect for all content areas, the activity promotes appropriate language choice through...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Iii Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to find the tone in a passage using a close reading strategy. They will also look at diction and discover that examining a writer's...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Ii Reading)
This lesson will help students identify diction and tone in their reading and will help them answer these questions: What does the author mean? What is the author's attitude about what he or she is writing? How will my understanding of a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Diction
This lesson uses text and an accompanying audio to discuss diction including its definition, what it includes, and an explanation and an example of how word choice, word order, and phrasing can change the tone of writing.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Text: Diction and Tone
This lesson deals primarily with diction and tone and how to recognize them in your reading. Tone is largely determined by diction or the word choices a writer makes. The process of choosing the right word involves denotation and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English I Reading)
In this lesson, you'll see how a writer's tone, diction, denotation, and connotation work together to create meaning for you as a reader.
Other
Diction for Singers
The complete vocal diction resource site. Commentary that is to the point. Supplemental visuals and lots of related resources and links.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English I Reading)
Evaluate the diction in a text and discover the author's tone.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Diction and Tone (English Ii Reading)
Evaluate the role of diction and tone in literary nonfiction such as speeches, essays, and other forms.
Ted Nellen
Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Diction
This is a glossary entry for the term "Diction" including a definition, an example, and a link to more examples.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Diction
This lesson introduces diction. This tutorial shares a short audio lesson [5:11] and supplemental notes with the lesson's content.
City University of New York
Vp: The Singer's Dilemma, Tone Versus Diction
Shirley Emmons is a noted teacher of singing. Her website has a number of essays devoted to singing technique. This article is an in depth discussion of the age old problem of balancing beautiful tone with the need to sing words that can...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:diction and Tone (English I Reading)
In this learning module, the user will learn and apply the concepts of tone and diction. Tone is the author's attitude toward the writing. Tone is largely determined by diction or the words that an author chooses.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5
Mark examples of figurative language and the diction that indicate tone.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Analyzing Poetry [Pdf]
This resource explains how to analyze a poem for its subject, narrator, tone, diction, and more. "Open" and "closed" poems are defined. Explanation are provided for "metrical feet" and "rhyme scheme" in poetry. William Shakespeare's "My...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Identifying Rhetorical Devices in Arguments to Aid Understanding
This lesson focuses on the expression of ideas, the stylistic choices writers make. Because the range of choices is so broad, the activities in the lesson will focus on DDIST: (Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, Tone) to help you remember...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Tone, Style, and Figurative Language: Practice 5
Mark examples of figurative language and the diction that indicate tone.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning
This lesson focuses on understanding an article or essay by looking past mere words on a page to the choice and arrangement of those words in order to analyze the way writers express themselves. The choice and arrangement of words make...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 2 (English Ii Reading)
In this lesson, students practice reading closely so that you can identify the choices that help create tone, diction, and irony.
University of Wisconsin
Univ. Of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Guide to Close Reading for Literary Analysis
This guide discusses how to approach analysis of a literary text, with the main focus being on the poem "Design" by Robert Frost. It explains how to examine the subject, the form, word choice or diction, and the theme. In each section,...
Other
Prezi: Tone, Diction, and Analysis of Word Choice
Slideshow explores the connection between word choice and the author's tone.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 5 Weak Words to Avoid & What to Use Instead (Infographic)
An infographic is provided to help students replace ineffective word choices. Students will find a list of words to replace vague words and overused phrases.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Close Reading of Prose: Practice 1 (English I Reading)
Read carefully in order to identify diction, tone, and irony and evaluate their impact on the meaning of a text.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Style Chart [Pdf]
A brief organizer in which students can analyze a given selection's writing style. Includes sections on diction, figures of speech, images, and sentence structure.
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