Word Choice Tone and Meaning
12th Grade · ELA · 30 min
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Learning Objective
I can analyze how word choice creates tone and impacts meaning in a text.
- 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.
- 3
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.
