Diction

__**Diction**__ It is the choice and use of words in speech and writing. Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: //good diction.// Example: "Dearest reader, I humbly entreat you to eschew the latest celebrity tittle-tattle and instead devote your attention to diction and tone." Does that request sound funny to you? Maybe this sounds a bit more commonplace: "Listen up! Drop the gossip magazine and get with the diction/tone program!" Why do these two comments sound different? Because the words come from two separate planets. The first comment resides in formal territory, and the second comment lives on the streets. Put the two side by side and you see contrasting **diction** — the vocabulary with which a writer expresses herself. A writer could call a rock formation by many words a stone, a boulder, an outcropping, a pile of rocks, a cairn, a mound, or even an "anomalous geological feature." (Kristen)

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