Diction
Diction is simply
your choice of words.
There is no single, correct diction in the
English language; rather, different words or phrases are used in
different contexts, as in the following example:
Writing Styles…
To
an employer (or in academic writing)
an oversight
To the police
an accident
To a child
a mistake
To a friend
a screw-up
All of these words mean the same thing—that is, they have the
same denotation—but
you would not use them interchangeably: a police officer or employer would
interpret screw-up as an insult, while your friends at the bar after
a hockey game would think oversight is pretentious.
The Details
Do
you want to REVIEW your knowledge of DICTION? Click HERE.
Want to learn more? Visit the learning site directly by click one of the page links below. These links will lead you out of this site and to the Public Works and Government Services for language acquisition.
Previous Page Next Page
© Department of English, Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa, 2019
No comments:
Post a Comment