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jlavorata — 2025-08-27 11:50:59 UTC

How to Complete This Activity

Add your initial post to the appropriate column (Diction, Imagery, or Tone) with an example from the passage
Read posts in ALL columns to see what your classmates have shared
Comment under peers’ posts to discuss connections between diction, imagery, and tone
Link examples from different columns in your comments to show how these elements work together
Focus on how these literary elements interconnect to shape the passage’s meaning

Sample Passages

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
1984 by George Orwell: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

This represents a true meaning of the word "dark and gloomy".

bmurray01_1 — 2025-08-27 14:33:22 UTC

The author did a good job making the atmosphere scary.

bmurray01_1 — 2025-08-27 14:33:56 UTC

And the tone reflects our feelings.

bmurray01_1 — 2025-08-27 14:34:33 UTC

the term diction describes the word choice and expressive manner that a writer or speaker employs when communicating.

2025-08-27 14:35:12 UTC

It can help create a precise mental image based off of what the author imagened.

2025-08-27 14:35:44 UTC

The Great Gatsby

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen

2025-08-27 14:37:36 UTC

It helps the reader to feel the atmosphere and understand the setting. This example creates the sense of loneliness and worriness.

"It was a bright cold day in April"

2025-08-27 14:38:07 UTC

Describes weather and creates a scene in the readers mind

" Climb inside of his skin "

2025-08-27 14:38:11 UTC

Its using a metaphor and it illustrates empathy .

2025-08-27 14:38:23 UTC

imagery- helps the reader visualize what's happening and feel like there actually their.

the tone reflects on are feeling and makes it scary in the story

2025-08-27 14:38:44 UTC

To kill A Mockingbird

2025-08-27 14:38:57 UTC

The tone is like a parental figure teaching his/her kids

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

2025-08-27 14:42:02 UTC

The example represents humanity's attempts to move forward. This image of ceaseless struggle highlights the theme of memory and nostalgia.

it was a bright cold day in April

2025-08-27 14:42:42 UTC

this makes you imagine a chilly early morning it gives you a image in your head of the place in the story and the feeling it gives its cold and bright.