Tuesday, March 6, 2012

DIDLS

  • Diction
  1. The author's choice of words
  2. check for double meaning
  3. honorific or pejorative?
  4. level of education of the author or speaker
  5. Denotation or Connotation
  6. Number of syllables
  • Imagery
  1. the verbal expression of a sensory experience
     -Emotive
     -auditory
     -touch
     -smell
     -"taste" - less frequent

  • Details
  1. information about what the author includes about the story
  • Language
  1. unlike diction, describes a larger body of text
     -informal or formal
     -esoteric (official style), or plain (plain style)
     -exact or inexact
     -what is this saying about the author/speaker?
  1. Rhetorical devices
     -repetition
     -irony
     -platitude
     -tautology
  • Syntax
  1. How a sentence is put together gramatically
     -look for sentence length
     -unusual punctuation
     -conjunctions
     -voice (active, passive)
     -parentheticals - these often function as aside-like structures
     -where are the details? before or after the subject? at the end?

     
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3 comments:

  1. JessiMarch 10, 2012 at 1:37 PM

    You provided a great review of the essentials of DIDL's. Something you could do better though, is draw the connection between DIDL's and how this helps in AP Lit.

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  2. Kelly PhillipsMarch 13, 2012 at 8:01 PM

    Great work with describing DIDLS. One thing I would say is that you should talk about how they are used in writing to support your thesis and ideas. Maybe add a little paragraph at the bottom about their uses in writing.

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  3. Ms. HolmesApril 5, 2012 at 7:29 PM

    Excellent.

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