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Diction Defined
The choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language in a literary work; the manner or mode of verbal expression, particularly with regard to clarity and accuracy. The diction of a poem can range from colloquial to formal, from literal to figurative, or from concrete or abstract.
Sidelight: Poetic diction refers to words, phrasing, and figures not usually used in ordinary speech and often utilizes archaisms, neologisms, epithets, kennings, periphrases, connotations, and hyperbaton.
Sidelight: Poets often adapt diction to the form or genre of a poem, for example, elevated for odes, or folksy for ballads.
(Compare Content, Form, Motif, Persona, Style, Texture, Tone)
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- Metablog Journal de l'Hypertexte: Logique de l'hypertexte: une dialectique de type hégelienne unit les différentes zones composant la mise en page de l?espace lisible dans un livre-papier.
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- http://metabol e.typepad.com/ jean_philippe_ pastor/2009/06 /questce-quun- texte-pdf.html: Si l'on voulait nommer le paradigme de la page sur le réseau dont le discours tente de s'élever au statut du surplomb édictant la vérité sur l'objet dont il traite, on l'appeler ait "Texte-PD F".
- Diction Exercises - How to Speak Clearly
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- N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab: The NY Tmes has shared what words are most commonly looked-up on their site. Interestingly there is no overlap with the top 25 most looked-up words on dictionary.com
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- Wordnik: Dictionary plus! Displays definitions, etymologies, related images, twitter entries, everything under the sun to do with a particular word.
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