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Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Emotive Language
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Writers use emotive language in order to have a greater emotional impact on their audience. Words can evoke positive emotions, as in: 'Brave gran risks life to save emaciated orphan'. Or the goal can be more negative: 'Abandoned children found in filthy, flea-infested flat'. It's important both to be aware of the effect this language can have on you as a reader, and to be able to achieve the same effect in your own writing.

Grades 9 and 10 - English Language - High School - Emotive Language
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1. 'If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs / Bitter as the cud / Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues' - Which are the emotive words used by Wilfred Owen in these lines from 'Dulce et Decorum Est'?
2. 'Doctor escapes jail for botched surgery' - Which are the emotive words in this headline?
3. 'Make your closet sparkle with our desirable new winter collection!' - Which are the emotive words in this advert?
4. 'Weasels will live anywhere smelly / Inside a maggoty sheep carcase / Or a rotted tree-stump, / A crumbled wall crevice or a fish hole / In the riverbank. Their innocent babies / Nest tight at the back of the holes.' - Which are the emotive words used by John Tripp in these lines from his poem, 'Weasels'?
5. 'How else dispose of an immortal force / No longer needed? / Staunch it at its source / With cinder loads dumped down? / The brook was thrown / Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone / In fetid darkness still to live and run' - Which are the emotive words used by Robert Frost in these lines from his poem, 'A Brook in the City'?
6. 'Our obesity-conquering cookbook is bursting with easy, fun recipes to try!' - Which are the emotive words in this blurb?
7. 'Gorgeous-looking model in immaculate condition - test drive today!' - Which are the emotive words in this car advert?
8. 'Thugs taunt victim after brutal mugging' - Which are the emotive words in this headline?
9. 'Devious employee fleeces nursing home owner' - Which are the emotive words in this headline?
10. 'Can you really abandon these puppies to life in such filthy kennels?' - Which are the emotive words in this appeal?

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