Diction
Choice of words for the expression of ideas; the construction, disposition, and application of words in discourse, with regard to clearness, accuracy, variety, etc.; mode of expression; language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems.
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Diction Quotations
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
Donna Tartt
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
Peter De Vries
You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
Paul Robeson
An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.
Alec Guinness
Diction Translations
diction in French is diction
diction in German is Diktion
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