Word Choice Tone and Meaning
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Objective
I can analyze how word choice creates tone and impacts meaning in a text.
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Warm-up video
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Key concepts
3 concepts
- 1
Liz changed "mom" to "mommy" and "need" to "could use" to soften her request for money.
- 2
Changing "did" to "tackled" and "practiced" to "perfected" demonstrates the power of word choice.
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The difference in rhetoric between Liz's texts to her mom and Bethany shows that words matter and authors choose words based on the results they want.
Part 3 of 4
Practice
3 questions
How does Liz's word choice in her text messages to her mom differ from her word choice in her text messages to Bethany? Provide specific examples from the video.
The video mentions Liz changing 'did my homework and practiced my dance' to 'tackled' and 'perfected'. What effect does this word choice have on the tone of her message?
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Exit ticket
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“Give an example of how Liz changed her word choice when texting her mom to influence the tone and meaning of her message, compared to texting her friend Bethany. Explain the effect of this change.”
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