2-28 Diction Exercise

"The Summer I was Sixteen"
By: Geraldine Connolly

Part A: turquoise, screaming, sunbathed, dreamsicles, drowned, gobbled, kisses, shadowed

Part B:
1.formality-Middle: plain, simple, detached, featureless, dry
2.connotation-Literal: actual, real, genuine

Part C: The featureless, genuine tone on Geraldine Connolly's The Summer I was Sixteen alludes to the pleasure and liveliness of being young