DIDLS Review Game

Imagery appeals to understanding through the

• Senses

• Paint a Picture

• Reader

• Author

Ways of using language appropriate to informal or conversational speech and writing

• Denotation

• Jargon

• Colloquial

• Dialect

Connotation is

• an idea or feeling that a word invokes

• the dictionary definition of a word

information and facts that are included or left out of the text

• Language

• Details

• Diction

• Imagery

the way sentences are constructed; the sentence structures.

• Syntax

• Language

• Diction

• Details

characteristics of the body of words used in the entire text

• Imagery

• Diction

• Details

• Language

What is Diction?

• Formal Language

• Author's word choice

• Figurative Language

• Author's Tone

Denotation is

• an idea or feeling that a word invokes

• the dictionary definition of a word

words and expressions used or connected to a certain trade, profession, or pursuit

• Colloquialism

• Jargon

• Dialect

• Connotation

language of everyday use; relaxed and conversational; with common and simple words, idioms, and slang.

• Formal Diction

• Informal Diction

• Neutral Diction

• Colloquialism