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Working from the Text
7. An author’s diction — choice of words — often has an effect on the reader. Words may carry a denotation and connotation, as well as figurative meanings. Use the graphic organizer to compare and contrast the diction in the two poems.
“The Road Not Taken”
“Choices”
Examples of denotation and connotation:
Examples of denotation and connotation:
Words and phrases with figurative meanings:
Words and phrases with figurative meanings:
8. Theme: What is the message about life implied in each poem?
Check Your Understanding
WRITING to SOURCES Expository Writing Prompt: Think about the poems and your analysis of their speakers, word choices, and themes. Then write a paragraph in which you explain the two narrators’ reflections about choices. Be sure to:
• Start your paragraph with a topic sentence.
• Include quotations of words and lines from the poems that support your ideas about choices.
Choices and Consequences
Many choices have consequences. Go back to your “My Choices” web in your Reader/Writer Notebook and add the consequences for the choices you labeled. Some choices may have several consequences. Add just the most important ones that resulted from your choice.
Word CoNNeCTIoNs
Cognates
A cognate is a word that has the same root meaning as a word in the same or another language. The English word consequences comes from
the Latin verb consequi, which means “following closely.” It has the same meaning as a similar word in Spanish. Both consecuencia and consequence mean “a result or an effect of an action.”
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aCadeMIC voCabULary
Effect and effective are words you will encounter often in academic courses. Effect is the way one thing influences or acts upon another. The adjective effective describes something that is successful in producing a desired or intended result.
Literary Terms
A word’s denotation is
its exact, literal meaning. Connotation is the suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word, beyond its literal definition.
Figurative language
is language used in
an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true. It is used
for effect, such as with personification, simile, metaphor, and hyperbole.
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