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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