diction
IPA: dˈɪkʃʌn
noun
- Choice and use of words, especially with regard to effective communication.
- The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and expression.
- (theater) Enunciation, pronunciation.
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Examples of "diction" in Sentences
- Is this about intellect or insane skills in diction?
- Shit, now my diction is all off b/c I in no way intend to equate you or anyone with blogtards.
- All forms of English are more or less mutually intelligible, with some important variations in diction and vocabulary.
- Maybe he's too cute, maybe his diction is too good, maybe he doesn't have enough tough-sounding consonants in his name.
- Poetic language and elevated diction is an obstacle to understanding for "ordinary" people, Wordsworth seems to be saying.
- The diction is simple and crisp, the details are acute, as metaphors slowly assemble, cloud-like, creating a melancholic atmosphere.
- I think it's the sort of piece where if the diction is really energetically articulated, it carries a lot of the musical line with it, and the mezzo's diction was particularly clear.
- Hence, although emotion is the overriding topic, paradoxically it is not immediacy but diffuseness in diction, syntax, and argument that has manifested itself as the overriding style.
- The classically trained singers that I've heard inevitably sound less than spontaneous, to be charitable, and their diction is invariably too "correct" and too lots of other things that I don't want to hear.
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