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Example sentences for: diction
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Within the past five or six years, however, I have observed that elegance has come to be a matter of phase rather than diction.
Elaborate taxonomies and obscure explanations such as mispronunciation due to ignorance, malapropisms based on both ignorance and misunderstanding, and, for the dictated word, the technological dyslexia of typographical errors and poor grasp of the diction of the dictators of medical histories may be suggested.
Cars stalled, the light gone hazy under leafless sycamores-- nature's diction, as casual as you asking for a last glass of water, whispers in my ear words cotton-mouthed and sere as sloughing bark littering the roadway, rush hour traffic halting, faltering like my hand the day I signed away your flesh to the crematory fire ...
The over-deliberate diction lets you know that he knows the line is a cliché but that he thinks it's entertaining anyway.
The inventiveness of such word-users may also be uncontrolled, a feature of which little account has been taken in analyzing Caribbean language use, the display of diction practised by elderly men on such festive occasions as christenings and weddings, especially the latter.
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