language: word choice and order

Question 1

significance of word choice

Answer 1

word choice is more significant in poetry than fiction and drama → everything comes down to the particular meanings and implications as well as sound, shape and location of individual words

Question 2

word choice in stories/plays

Answer 2

more focused on character and plot (although words determine how we imagine those characters)

Question 3

word choice in poems

Answer 3

often short, much depends on every word in them, only essential words, not simple→ rich in meaning and complex in effects

Question 4

diction

Answer 4

word of choice

Question 5

denotation

Answer 5

dictionary meaning

Question 6

connotation

Answer 6

what is suggested by using a word

Question 7

How do poems create an effect?

Answer 7

by playing/examining one word, situational irony, unusual/changing syntax, title; individual words qualify and amplify one another

Question 8

how does literature use word choice?

Answer 8

Literature often relies on ambiguity, subtle shades of
meaning, and even contradiction = no single “answer”