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How Do You Read Your News?
Words carry baggage. Class members are asked to consider the weight of words in an exercise that contrasts the word choices in two versions of the same event. Consider following the exercise with an activity in which pairs craft positive...
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Sophia: Synecdoche
This video lesson focuses on the literary device synecdoche, using a part to represent the whole idea or object. It defines the term, compares it to metaphor and metonymy, and offers common and literary examples.
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Sophia: Connotation
This video lesson focuses on the word connotation. It defines the term and discusses the impact connotation can have on an audience. It looks at the dictionary definitions of three words: course, class, and field, and uses their synonyms...
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Sophia: Identifying Tone
This lesson focuses on how to identify the tone of a passage. It defines tone, explains how to identify positive, negative, and neutral tones, and demonstrates how to identify tone with both a literary and a non-fiction example. [5:14]
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Sophia: Metonymy
This lesson focuses on the literary device metonymy; it defines it, compares it to a metaphor, and provides everyday examples such as "man of the cloth" for priest, and literary examples such as "lend me your ears."
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Sophia: Connotation and Denotation
This video lesson focuses on the difference between the connotation and denotation of synonyms. The denotation is the dictionary definition, while the connotation adds feelings, images, or associations to the dictionary definition....
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Sophia: Tone: Lesson 2
A screencast [2 mins, 19 secs] defining, explaining, and providing examples of tone.