Diction Activity for Ivins Reading

Step 1: Read the selection and clearly identify the author's purpose. (on assignment paper)

Step 2: Identify as many diction devices as possible (annotation)

Step 3: Generally characterize the different diction choices made by the author. -- in other words, group the examples according to the type of rhetorical strategy used, referring to line numbers and word choices (on assignment paper)

Step 4: Draw a conclusions about how Ivins uses TWO of these types of diciton (on assignment paper)