Wednesday, February 23, 2011

2.23 Diction Exercise

a) dark slate, treacherously, stocky, taciturn, hewn, sharply, amidst, lean

b) Elevation: intelligible, unequivocal
Connotation: literal, methodical
Sound: monotone, dryness
Concreteness: objective, definite

c) Neil Gaiman's diction in "Stardust" is intelligibly methodical with objective dryness conveying the seriousness of the informative passage.

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