DICTION

WHAT IS DICTION?

• the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.

HOW IS THE DICTION USED?

• Powerful
• Formal
• Uses diction to transition between different audiences.
• Connotative
• Double speak

WHY IS THE WRITING POWERFUL?

• Powerful because it has strong words like;
• Abuse
• General collapse
• Concreteness
• He uses powerful language to make his important points stand out

WHY IS THE WRITING FORMAL?

• He doesn't write as he would speak using words and phrases such as:
• "Here are five specimens of the English language as it's now habitually written."
• "Analyze"
• "The political dialects..."
• He does this so that this essay has a broader range of audience with a scholarly interpretation on the subject

DICTION THAT HELPS TRANSITION BETWEEN AUDIENCES

• In the beginning he uses words like we or us.
• Slowly he starts to use he, they, or the reader.
• Until he completely takes himself out of the audience .
• He does this so he doesn't directly insult the reader in the first paragraph so they continue to read on

HOW IS THE WRITING CONNATIVE

• The author uses words like:
• "Half conscious"
• "Americanism"
• "To make pretentious unfashionable."
• " politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia."

DOUBLE SPEAK

• Some examples of double speak are:
• "Orthodoxy, of whatever color, seems to demand a lifeless, imitative style."
• "Sordid process of international politics ."
• " larynx"
• Disguise the true meaning of the sentence and to seem better than the reader.