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Analyzing Word Choice and Style in Close Reading: A Guide

This guide focuses on enhancing your close reading skills by exploring word choice and the writer's style. It encourages you to identify and analyze various literary features, such as tone, imagery, and sentence structure. You'll learn to highlight effective word choices, examine their connotations, and understand how they convey the writer's point. By organizing your analysis into understanding, evaluation, and commentary on connotations, you'll deepen your appreciation of language and its impact. This process is essential for effective literary analysis.

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Analyzing Word Choice and Style in Close Reading: A Guide

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  1. Close Reading Skills Word Choice

  2. Analysis Questions • Ask you to identify and analyse features of the writer’s style. • This may be word choice, sentence structure, tone, imagery or more. • If your asked to comment on a writer’s use of language or style, this is what you are being asked to discuss.

  3. Word choice • Identify and highlight effective word choice • Quote the word(s) • Discuss their connotations • Explain how these connotations help convey the writer’s point.

  4. Question Categories • Understanding (In your own words) • Analysis • Evaluation

  5. Denotation • This is a word’s meaning. • This is not what you should comment on.

  6. Connotation • This is a word or phrase’s associations. • These are what you should focus on. • ‘Pre-natal mortality’ and ‘baby deaths’ have the same meaning or denotation. • However, the first has very medical, scientific connotations, suggesting categorisation and a lack of emotion. • The latter has more emotive connotations.

  7. Add to the table • Posse (p1) • Ambling (p1) • Looting (p2) • Trashed (p3) • Bray (p4) • Slaughter (p5) • Glee (p6)

  8. Exemplar • ‘Posse’ has negative connotations, suggesting an aggressive and perhaps unlawful group. This conveys the sense that the writer believes that the police have often acted in a manner more akin to criminals.

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