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Cornell Notes: Diction, Meaning, and Tone

Title of Text: _____________________________

Author’s Craft/PAT: Take Notes: Diction, Meaning, & Tone
Author’s Craft: Make a Diction: word choice; the author’s careful selection of words
“Pay Attention To” list. (connotation-implicit meaning, denotation-explicit meaning)

Explicit Meaning: Diction: (word choice)

Denotation:

Implicit Meaning:

Connotation:
Tone:(The author’s attitude about the
subject.)

Explicit Meaning: Diction: (word choice)

Denotation:

Implicit Meaning:

Connotation:
Tone:(The author’s attitude about the
subject.)

Explicit Meaning: Diction: (word choice)

Denotation:

Implicit Meaning:

Connotation:
Tone:(The author’s attitude about the
subject.)

Claim: (Be specific about why the author Analysis/Claim:

used these features, the effects they have
A good analysis will make a claim about the text and support this by explaining the
on the reader, and the ideas they draw our
effects of the selected language.
attention to.)

The author uses diction

to (imply/explain)

in order to draw our attention to