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When you finish the quiz, please copy the following definitions into your notes:

When you finish the quiz, please copy the following definitions into your notes: Mood : the climate of feeling in a literary work. The choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific mood.

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When you finish the quiz, please copy the following definitions into your notes:

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  1. When you finish the quiz, please copy the following definitions into your notes: Mood: the climate of feeling in a literary work. The choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific mood. Diction: word choice that both gives and highlights the meaning or theme of a written work through words’ sound, look, rhythm, syllable, letters, and definition.

  2. “Connotations” are the impressions that a word gives off • If you were to describe a child, a phrase with a positive connotation may be “little one,” while the word “brat” gives a negative connotation. • Which of the following is positive? thrifty/cheap stench/aroma obsession/hobby

  3. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door – Only this, and nothing more.

  4. “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth The waves beside the daffodils danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought

  5. Please get a text book and answer these Qs in complete sentences on a separate piece of paper. • Identify a passage (about 5 lines) from the cantos we have ready and describe the mood. • What words (diction) helps you feel the mood of the canto? • Do the words have positive or negative connotations? Explain. • After you finish the Qs above, rewrite the passage using different words for a different mood.

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