1. DIDLS DIDLS DICTION IMAGERY DETAILS LANGUAGE SYNTAX STYLE TONE THEME
WORD CHOICE
IMAGERY
APPEALS TO SENSES
DETAILS
SUPPORTS ATTITUDE AND TONE
LANGUAGE
FIGURES OF SPEECH
SOUND DEVICES LITERAY TECHNIQUES
SYNTAX
SENTENCE STRUCTURE
STYLE
WRITER’S MANNER OF EMPLOYING LANGUAGE
TONE
WRITER’S ATTITUDE TOWARD SUBJECT
THEME
GENERAL STATEMENT ABOUT LIFE OR HUMAN NATURE

2. DICTION Attitudes implied by the varying word choice. For example:
To laugh: to guffaw, to chuckle, to titter, to giggle, to cackle, to snicker, to roar
Self-confident: proud, conceited, egotistical, stuck up, haughty, smug, complacent, arrogant, condescending
House: home, hut, shack, mansion, cabin, chalet, abode, dwelling, shanty, domicile, residence
King: ruler, leader, tyrant, dictator, autocrat, rex
Old: mature, experienced, antique, relic, ancient, elderly, senior
Fat: obese, plump, corpulent, portly, roly-poly, stout, rotund, burly, full-figured  

3. Describe diction (choice of words)
Words can be monosyllabic (one syllable in length) or polysyllabic (more than one syllable in length). The higher the ratio of polysyllabic words, the more difficult the content.
Words can be mainly colloquial (slang),
informal (conversational), formal (literary), or old-fashioned.
Words can be mainly denotative (containing an exact meaning, e.g., dress), or connotative (containing a suggested meaning, e.g., gown).
Words can be concrete (specific) or abstract (general or conceptual).
Words can be euphonious (pleasant sounding, e.g., languid, murmur) or cacophonous (harsh sounding, e.g., raucous, croak).  

4. “Outside the door I am aware of the darkness and the wind as a deliverance. I breathe as a deep as I can, and feel the breeze in my face, warm and soft as never before. Thoughts of girls, of flowery meadows, of white clouds suddenly come into my head… The night crackles electrically, the front thunders like a concert of drums. My limbs move supplely, I feel my joints strong. I breathe the air deeply. The night lives, I live. I feel a hunger, greater than comes from the belly alone” (33).

5. Words:
Before shift: darkness, deep, warm, soft, flowery, white
After shift: crackles, thunders, supplely, drums, hunger
Tone: Author’s attitude created by words
Before shift: wistful
After shift: exhilirated
Entire passage: tormented, miserable

6. “The hedge is destroyed, the rails of the light railway are torn up and rise stiffly in the air in great arches. Someone lies in front of us. We stop; Kropp goes on alone with the wounded man.”

7. Words: destroyed, light, torn, stiffly, great, wounded
Tone: defeated, despairing, tormented

8. YOUR PASSAGE Find 3 isolated words to analyze --- DICTION
Find a TONE word to describe YOUR AUTHOR’S ATTITUDE