Dialect, Tone, and Mood
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Dialect, Tone, and Mood Ms. Beaulieu
Hall Dale High SchoolEnglish I
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Dialect, Tone, and Mood
Dialect: language specific to a specific region or social group
Tone: attitude or character of a piece of writing
Mood: a temporary state of mind or feeling
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Alliteration
Examples
Tommy toothache touched two thousand Twinkies to torment Tommy’s teeth.
Soap, Socks, Sent
Purple possums pick pineapples.
the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of an English phrase
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Assonance repetition of vowel sounds to create rhyming within a phrase or
sentence
Examples
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
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Onomatopoeiawords used to imitate natural sounds
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Formal & Informal Language
Formal Language: use with authorities (teachers, police, judges, leaders, etc.)
Informal Language: use with friends
ExamplesF: He is going to the dance tonight. I: He’s goin’ to tha dance tonight.
F: Do you want to go to the park?I: You want to go to the park?
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Domain Specific Language
Domain Specific Language = jargon
Example
When speaking about the Civil Rights Movement, you’d use words like: discrimination, racism, equality, segregation.
When talking about computers you’d use words like: software, modem, USB drive, hard drive.
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