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...

[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...

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.

Evaluate the diction in a text and discover the author's tone.

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.

Words carry baggage. In addition to their literal, denotative meaning, words also carry the weight of the associations and connotations attached to the word—the connotations of words writers use to create the tone of a piece. An...

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to explain the function of symbolism and allegory in a text.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Evaluate connections between forms of narration (unreliable narrator, omniscient, etc.) and tone in works of fiction.

You will learn how to annotate or mark a text as you read and re-read to gain a deeper understanding of the text.

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on ways of searching through the context for clues to illuminate unknown words. Unknown words interrupt the flow of your reading, and, like a bump in the...