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Chapter 6 TONE AND STYLE

Chapter 6 TONE AND STYLE. Just for fun Grammar Rules Grammar Rules

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Tone  This refers to the methods by which writers and speakers reveal the attitudes and feelings toward the material, toward their readers and toward the general situation they are describing or analyzing.

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Chapter 6 TONE AND STYLE

Page 2: Chapter 6 TONE AND STYLE. Just for fun  Grammar Rules Grammar Rules

Just for fun

Grammar Rules

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Tone

This refers to the methods by which writers and speakers reveal the attitudes and feelings toward the material, toward their readers and toward the general situation they are describing or analyzing.

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Style

The ways in which writers assemble words to tell the story, to develop the argument, to dramatize the play, or to compose the poem. Style cannot be separated from the action or scene it self.

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Diction

The Writer’s selection of words. Words must be accurate and comprehensive, so that all the actions, scenes and ideas are perfectly understandable to readers.

The right words control the way the reader responds to the material

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Formal, Neutral and Informal Diction

Formal or High diction This would be diction that is a formal way of speaking. “It is I” No slang, No contractions

Neutral or Middle This would be more like every day language. “It’s me” Slang and contractions are acceptable. Any language that would be the

same as everyday language is acceptable. Informal or Low

This would be ungrammatical language “I don’t never…”

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Specific-General, Concrete-Abstract Language

Specific/General refer to categories Specific language is language that directly relates to subject “My dog

Teddy is barking” General statements can be applied to many things and are broad

statements. “All people like pets” Concrete/Abstract refers to qualities or conditions Concrete – Immediate perception “Ice cream is cold” Abstract – broader qualities “Ice cream is good”

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Specific-General Language

Very Specific

•PeachLess

Specific•Fruit

General•Desert

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Denotation and Connotation

Denotation A limiting term

Connotation An implying term (suggestive)

Cat/Kitten similar denotatively – Different connotations Kitten gives a playful connotation

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Tone, Irony and Style

Irony Verbal Irony – Contradictory statements Situational Irony – When the actions or events contradict what should be. Dramatic Irony – When the reader knows what the characters do not

Style Understatement – The expression does not fully describe the importance of the situation Hyperbole or Overstatement – the words are far in excess of the situation and the reader

understands it is actually much less than what is said Double Entendre – Verbal irony that has a double meaning.

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Tone, Humor and Style

Key to humor – Something to laugh at – a person, thing, situation, custom, habit of speech or dialect or arrangement of words.

We must also have disproportion or incongruity (Something that violates what we expect)