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Literary and Rhetorical Devices
Quick questions on Tone, mood, and diction - Regents ELA literary devices
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What are vague feeling words?Show answer
"Bad," "good," "scary" are imprecise. Use exact adjectives (wry, foreboding, tender) that the diction supports.
What is q1?Show answer
What is the difference between tone, mood, and diction? [Recall]
What is q2?Show answer
In "the hinge that shrieked, and the path beyond had surrendered to weeds," which words build the mood, and what is it? [Short explanation]
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