Question

What diction and connotation does John Muir use in each paragraph in the essay "The Calypso Borealis"

Answer 1

can you provide a copy of the essay?

Answer 2

http://learn.flvs.net/webdav/educator_eng1_v12/global/docs/reading_calypso.htm

Answer 3

the connotation is generally one of amazement. connotation is essentially how the author's word choice makes the paragraph or story feel. diction is the author's specific word choice

Answer 4

i can basicially understand when he uses diction, but can you give me an example of him using connotation in paragraph 2?

Answer 5

"Entering one of these great tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt." the connotation here is forlorn. he's dismayed by the fact that he'd have to sleep in a tree, cold and hungry

Answer 6

aahhhh ok i think i got it now thanx