Emotive language

Task 1 Analyze whether the following sentences used emotive language. Write Yes
if you think the sentence uses emotive language.
1. Another person in the bar was injured by the man's glass.
2. The whole village was brutally massacred.
3. The police arrived at the crime scene.
4. The poor people of the tribe were easily captured by the ruthless Whites.
5. People must wake up from the doomed reality that the earth is dying.
- Oftentimes, news headlines use emotive language to hook the audience.
Here is an example:
– The strike of public transport is disturbing and distressing.
Here the words distressing and disturbing are able to evoke emotional aspect.

Task 2: Read and analyze the sentences. Identify the words that make the statement
emotive.
• An innocent passenger was brutally murdered in a train robbery.
• A monster of a man violated an underage child’s decency.
• The sleeping victims were attacked in the cover of night.

Task 3: Collect all the emotive words used in the context.

1. I think that the amount of plastic that is placed and found in the ocean is a
disgrace.
2. To think that people could be so cruel to our environment and our animals is
truly awful.
3. I think that life would be really great if we all used to eco-friendly bags you
can choose to buy at the shopping center.
4. It is absolutely terrible to think that innocent marine life is dying due to
humans throwing various plastic bits and pieces into their habitats.
5. If it were those poor marine animals, would we enjoy having humans ruin our
lives just by their silly actions?
 Irony
There are many forms of irony featured in literature. The effectiveness of irony as a
literary device depends on the reader’s expectations and understanding of the
disparity between what “should” happen and what “actually” happens in a literary
work.
• Situational irony happens when the opposite of the intended or expected results
occurs, often with timing that increases the irony of the situation.
For instance:
• A man buys a gun to protect himself, but that same gun is used to shoot
him.
• A sailor dying of thirst is stranded on a lifeboat in the middle of the
ocean, but he can't drink the water.
Fill-in the Irony
1. Insurance, accident, office, _____
2. Dog, owner, park, _____
3. Lottery, ticket, lost, _____
4. Bank, robbery, police, _____
5. Vacation, plan, airport, _____
For example, using the first set of words you could write:
• On her way to the insurance office to make her first car insurance payment, Jane
got into a car accident.