Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0304 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tone Lives in Diction
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The idea
Tone is built from the particular words chosen over their available synonyms. The glossary has no headword for diction; the standard sense is word choice. Find the loaded words, ask what attitude their selection implies, and you have located the evidence a tone answer needs.
In practice
Find the loaded words first.
Where people slip
Tone without cited words is a guess.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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