Tone, Speaker & Attitude
Diction, tone, mood, speaker vs poet, shifts, and irony types
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Study diction (connotation vs denotation, register), tone (the author's attitude), mood (the reader's emotional response), the distinction between speaker and poet, tonal shifts (volta), and types of irony (verbal, situational, dramatic).
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