Triads

Ninth Rule of Rhetoric: Choose Your Words Carefully
On Diction

1. Read "Diction" (p. 186 - 193).
2. Come up with at least 10 sets of Positive (euphemistic) / Neutral / Negative (disphemistic) words. Each word in each set should have the same denotation and differ only in connotation: they are NOT opposites. One way to test for this is to create a simple sentence where the meaning remains basically the same but the feeling changes as you swap the neutral for the positive for the negative word.
   1. That person is ambitious
   2. That person is competitive
   3. That person is domineering
   1. That person is fit
   2. That person is thin
   3. That person is scrawny
   1. re-imagine
   2. renovate
   3. fix
   This assignment is much harder than it may look. You need to use a dictionary and a thesaurus.

Rubric: Graded out of 100. Worth 10% of final grade. To get 100%, you need to have 10 flawless examples. For each error in any set of Positive/ Neutral / Negative adjectives, - 5%. Thus the most you can loose for any set of three is 10%.