Pushing Boundaries
Lesson 1
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How Does Word Choice Affect Tone?
One way that an author develops the tone of a text is through their word choice.

If you're looking for the perfect flower, consider the daylily. Daylilies have bright, beautiful blooms. They thrive in almost any location and are tough and tolerant. Even the most beginner gardeners can grow daylilies!

We can guess that the author's tone is excited or conversational.

The daylily, or Hemerocallis, is native to eastern Asia. Daylilies have the ability to thrive in many different climates. They are able to tolerate both frost and drought conditions, and are generally low maintenance.

The tone of this paragraph could be factual or formal.
While both paragraphs share information about daylilies, their word choice and tone are very different.

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