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After starting vocab unit 15, we spent some quality time with my immortal beloved, John Keats, and his "Ode on a Grecian Urn." As noted in class, diction shifts throughout the poem commencing with the beauty and wonder of music, joy, love, first impressions & transitioning to the decay, the loss, the sacrifice, the suffering of life. The class thesis statement featured these elements and exhibited a formula that you may use when composing diction analysis: Author + mature verb + specific type (s) of diction + purpose. For example, JK illustrates passionate, bittersweet diction to create an analogy of life's complexities. For homework, close read the first letter of your packet for tomorrow's class. You are welcome to read the entire packet if you would like to further prepare for group diction analysis.
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After continuing with vocab unit 15, we finished our last group quote presentation, and then moved into diction analysis of two seemingly unrelated poems by Thomas Gary and Percy Shelley. As noted in our vibrant discussion, each text selection featured its own brand of diction, yet a common theme became apparent as we moved from "The Death of a Favourite Cat" to "Ozymandias." Hence, our formula for diction thesis statements (author + mature verb + specific type(s) of diction + purpose) created this masterpiece: TG's decadent, omniscient diction and PS's moralistic, ironic diction warn that greed and self-involvement lead to ruin. Woohoo! Keats tomorrow!
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After completing the vocab quiz for unit 14, we worked on writing thesis statements for more diction quotes and then transitioned into groups analyzing paragraphs for varying types of diction. In all circumstance, the diction formula (author + mature verb + specific type(s) of diction + purpose) creates a dynamic structure ready for evidence and analysis. Tomorrow we transfer to texts with a little more length and depth to test out this new formula.
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