Week 2 Day 1: Diction ACECES Question What does the authors choice of the word tattered communicate An aged man is but a paltry thing about the speakers A tattered coat upon a stick attitude toward the aged man? --W.B. Yeats Questions to consider: Sailing to Byzantium What picture is created by the use of the word tattered? By understanding the connotations of the word tattered, what do we understand about the speakers attitude toward an aged man? Day 2: Detail ACECES Question: An old man, Don Tomasito, the baker, How do the details in played the tuba. When this passage express he blew into the huge the speakers mouthpiece, his face attitude toward would turn purple and Tomasito and his his thousand wrinkles music? would disappear as Questions to Consider: his skin filled out. The first sentence is a general --Alberto Alvaro Rios statement. What details in the second sentence enrich The Iguana Killer and intensify the first? What attitude toward Tomasito and his playing is conveyed by these details? How is that attitude Day 3: Imagery ACECES Question: It was a mine town, Compare and contrast uranium most the two images of recently. Dust devils ground and earth. whirled sand off the What emotions and mountains. Even after ideas do these images the heaviest of rains, evoke? the water seeped Guiding Thoughts: back into the ground, There are two images between stones, and associated with land (ground and earth) in the earth was parched the third sentence. What is again. depicted in each image?
--Linda Hogan, Making What emotions do these
images evoke? Do Which words are most important in creating these Day 4: Tone What a thrill ACECES Question: My thumb instead of an What is the poets onion. attitude toward the The top quite gone cut? Based on that Except for a sort of a hinge attitude, infer Plaths attitude toward life in Of skin, general. A flap like a hat, Dead white. Questions to Consider: Then a red plush. What words, images and details create this tone? --Sylvia Plath How does the use of colors Cut: For Susan ONeill Roe intensify the tone? (Dead white; red plush) Day 5: Syntax ACECES Question: When I am too sad and How does the sentence too skinny to keep structure affect or keeping, when I am a tiny thing against so reflect the on the many bricks, then it is ideas and meaning I look at trees. of this passage? --Sandra Cisneros Question to Consider: The House on Mango What grammatical structure is Street repeated in this sentence? This is a sentence that delays the subject and verb to the end. What idea is emphasized by the end- focus in this sentence?