- diction: single words
- colloquial (ordinary language) v. elevated: shows level of education/sophistocation
- connotation (meanings that culture brings to the word) v. denotation (dictionary meaning)
- pejorative (negative) v. honorific (positive)
- vagueness: favorite with unreliable narrators
- imagery: language that appeals vividly to the senses
- sight, touch, taste, smell, sound
- 'gut'/visceral senses
- details: taken from text to support arguments
- language
- metaphor v. simile
- personification: object/animal given human characteristics
- analogy: explains something by comparing it to something simple
- hyperbole v. understatement
- paradox: statement that seems contradictory but reveals the truth
- verbal irony: speaker says something but means something else, noticeable incongruity
- syntax: sentence length/construction
- impacts pace, tone, emphasis
- dependent clause: depends on something else for meaning (requires subordinating conjunction)
- independent clause: can stand by itself (performs marriage between equal ideas)
- SVC (subject,verb,compliment) v. SVO (subject,verb,object)
- punctuation SPEAKS!
Monday, March 5, 2012
Synthesis I
DIDLS has acted as the backbone of our approach to analyzing literature this year. Here is a breakdown of the parts:
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Syntax is the most challenging technique in my opinion and the easiest is definitely imagery. I don't use language that much, because I usually can't distinguish different connotations derived from the same words, and I get language mixed up with diction. Which one do you use most often?
ReplyDeleteI definitely think that DIDLS is the most important thing we have learned this year and I can see why we started the year off with it before anything else. After learning the techniques I find myself paying more attention to the piece's diction, but looking for syntax is still difficult. What about yourself?
ReplyDeleteWonderful work on this assignment!
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