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Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: Language Network Your writing style Slide 2: Writing Style Writing style is a combination of the words and images you choose, and the types of sentences you write. Developing Style Slide 3: Developing Style Specific Words Denotations and Connotations Practice and Apply Slide 4: In addition to using a particular level of language, a writer may choose to use concrete words or abstract words, specific words or general words. The writer’s selection of words makes up his or her diction. Specific Words Slide 5: GENERAL: The man saw a car. SPECIFIC: The patrol officer saw a blue sedan. Specific Words Slide 6: Precise nouns and verbs also can be used to replace a string of words and modifiers. Specific Words Slide 7: The car shifted from lane to lane through traffic. The car zigzagged through traffic. Specific Words Slide 8: Words have two kinds of meanings, called denotations and connotations. The denotation of a word is its dictionary definition. The connotation of a word is the set of associations and feelings the word evokes. Denotations and Connotations Slide 9: Cheap, inexpensive, and economical all mean about the same thing, but their connotative meanings are very different. That car is really economical. That car is really inexpensive. That car is really cheap. POSITIVE CONNOTATION NEUTRAL CONNOTATION NEGATIVE CONNOTATION Denotations and Connotations Slide 10: In many dictionaries you can find explanations of connotations in the lists of synonyms that follow words’ definitions. Denotations and Connotations Slide 11: Rewrite the sentence by replacing the underlined words with more specific ones. Practice and Apply Slide 12: Rewrite the sentence by replacing the underlined words with more specific ones. Practice and Apply Slide 13: Explain how these two sentences differ in meaning. Practice and Apply Slide 14: Explain how these two sentences differ in meaning. Practice and Apply Slide 15: Developing Style Imagery Figures of Speech Practice and Apply Slide 16: Imagery Imagery conveys sensory impressions. It helps the reader see, hear, feel, taste, and smell what is being described. Imagery Slide 17: The crisp winter day with its dazzling light and scent of new snow was a perfect setting for the women’s halfpipe competition. The densely packed crowd huddled together for warmth and tried to avoid sliding on the slippery, steep slope. The competitors whizzed by, shredding the slopes, inches from the spectators. What an exciting day! This description appeals to several senses. Imagery Slide 18: Figures of Speech Figures of speech, or figurative language, communicate ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meaning of words. Figures of Speech Slide 19: Simile, metaphor, and personification are three examples of figures of speech. You can use them to create strong, memorable images for the reader. Figures of Speech Slide 20: A simile is a comparison that contains the word like or as. Fresh similes compare things that a person might not normally think of comparing. Figures of Speech Slide 21: . . . Then, like a bursting Roman candle, the gum tree ahead of us was shattered by a bolt of lightning. . . .[the rain] fell straight down in parallel paths like ropes hanging from the sky. —James Hurst, “The Scarlet Ibis” Similes make the scene from James Hurst’s story more vivid. Figures of Speech Slide 22: In a metaphor something is treated as though it were something else. The comparison is made without the use of like or as. Figures of Speech Slide 23: . . . without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerous slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the bells and the screams that filled the air. —Richard Wright, Black Boy Richard Wright uses the metaphor of a runaway train to describe the path his life was taking. Figures of Speech Slide 24: Personification is a figure of speech in which a writer gives human characteristics to an animal, a thing, or an idea. Figures of Speech Slide 25: Susan Doro uses personification to present a poem as a main character. But tonight the poem saw that she was having a good time, joking with her “buddies.” It was an hour and a half later when the poem looked in again. —Susan Doro, “The Cultural Worker” Figures of Speech Slide 26: Use imagery to complete the sentence. Practice and Apply Slide 27: Use a simile to complete the sentence. Practice and Apply Slide 28: Use a metaphor to complete the sentence. Practice and Apply Slide 29: Write a paragraph that uses personification to describe how one of these objects acts. Practice and Apply You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Your writing style bsndev Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: (To copy code, click on the text box) Embed: URL: Thumbnail: WordPress Embed Customize Embed The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 1448 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (1) Dislike it (0) Added: August 04, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... By: Cordie (13 month(s) ago) this is just what I ws looking for to introduce style. Saving..... Post Reply Close Saving..... Edit Comment Close Premium member Presentation Transcript Slide 1: Language Network Your writing style Slide 2: Writing Style Writing style is a combination of the words and images you choose, and the types of sentences you write. Developing Style Slide 3: Developing Style Specific Words Denotations and Connotations Practice and Apply Slide 4: In addition to using a particular level of language, a writer may choose to use concrete words or abstract words, specific words or general words. The writer’s selection of words makes up his or her diction. Specific Words Slide 5: GENERAL: The man saw a car. SPECIFIC: The patrol officer saw a blue sedan. Specific Words Slide 6: Precise nouns and verbs also can be used to replace a string of words and modifiers. Specific Words Slide 7: The car shifted from lane to lane through traffic. The car zigzagged through traffic. Specific Words Slide 8: Words have two kinds of meanings, called denotations and connotations. The denotation of a word is its dictionary definition. The connotation of a word is the set of associations and feelings the word evokes. Denotations and Connotations Slide 9: Cheap, inexpensive, and economical all mean about the same thing, but their connotative meanings are very different. That car is really economical. That car is really inexpensive. That car is really cheap. POSITIVE CONNOTATION NEUTRAL CONNOTATION NEGATIVE CONNOTATION Denotations and Connotations Slide 10: In many dictionaries you can find explanations of connotations in the lists of synonyms that follow words’ definitions. Denotations and Connotations Slide 11: Rewrite the sentence by replacing the underlined words with more specific ones. Practice and Apply Slide 12: Rewrite the sentence by replacing the underlined words with more specific ones. Practice and Apply Slide 13: Explain how these two sentences differ in meaning. Practice and Apply Slide 14: Explain how these two sentences differ in meaning. Practice and Apply Slide 15: Developing Style Imagery Figures of Speech Practice and Apply Slide 16: Imagery Imagery conveys sensory impressions. It helps the reader see, hear, feel, taste, and smell what is being described. Imagery Slide 17: The crisp winter day with its dazzling light and scent of new snow was a perfect setting for the women’s halfpipe competition. The densely packed crowd huddled together for warmth and tried to avoid sliding on the slippery, steep slope. The competitors whizzed by, shredding the slopes, inches from the spectators. What an exciting day! This description appeals to several senses. Imagery Slide 18: Figures of Speech Figures of speech, or figurative language, communicate ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meaning of words. Figures of Speech Slide 19: Simile, metaphor, and personification are three examples of figures of speech. You can use them to create strong, memorable images for the reader. Figures of Speech Slide 20: A simile is a comparison that contains the word like or as. Fresh similes compare things that a person might not normally think of comparing. Figures of Speech Slide 21: . . . Then, like a bursting Roman candle, the gum tree ahead of us was shattered by a bolt of lightning. . . .[the rain] fell straight down in parallel paths like ropes hanging from the sky. —James Hurst, “The Scarlet Ibis” Similes make the scene from James Hurst’s story more vivid. Figures of Speech Slide 22: In a metaphor something is treated as though it were something else. The comparison is made without the use of like or as. Figures of Speech Slide 23: . . . without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerous slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the bells and the screams that filled the air. —Richard Wright, Black Boy Richard Wright uses the metaphor of a runaway train to describe the path his life was taking. Figures of Speech Slide 24: Personification is a figure of speech in which a writer gives human characteristics to an animal, a thing, or an idea. Figures of Speech Slide 25: Susan Doro uses personification to present a poem as a main character. But tonight the poem saw that she was having a good time, joking with her “buddies.” It was an hour and a half later when the poem looked in again. —Susan Doro, “The Cultural Worker” Figures of Speech Slide 26: Use imagery to complete the sentence. Practice and Apply Slide 27: Use a simile to complete the sentence. Practice and Apply Slide 28: Use a metaphor to complete the sentence. Practice and Apply Slide 29: Write a paragraph that uses personification to describe how one of these objects acts. Practice and Apply