1. “Internment” Diction

2. Diction • Writers choice of words • Denotation • Literal meanings found in a dictionary • Connotation • The associations and emotions that come to be attached to a word / can not be found in dictionary Diction

3. Read poem on pg. 437, and answer the following: • What events are happening in the first stanza? • What is happening in the second stanza? • Explain the word connotations in line 1 and in line 21. • What comparison do the word connotations in the above questions make overall? What other figure of speech is used to help make that comparison between these two lines? • Explain the diction in line 7. Mention both the denotation and the connotation of the word branding. • Explain the diction in line 22. Mention the connotation of the impaled. • What might the dewdrops symbolize? Why? “Internment”