In a poem, diction is the way the poet utilizes words, sentences, and phrasing to emphasize his writing style and overall message. The diction can tell a lot about the author and about the individual details within the poem. Another way to look at it is just by realizing that dicion is the about the same as language; whether figurative or not. It is shown through other techniques and aspects of the poem like imagery, denotation, and connotation.
The speaker shows his sarcasm by using the word ridiculous to describe May Apex :)
Diction Apex ;)
The antonym for diction is indistinctness or incoherence.
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.
The prefix for "diction" is "dict-".
The different elements of poetry include prosody (meter, rhythm, and intonation), poetic form, and poetic diction.
He has good diction.
formal diction is speaking or releasing words with certain enunciation.
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton., A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.
Diction is to word as melody is to
Poetic Diction was created in 1928.
Everybody though his speech was excellent as his diction was immaculate. his diction was excellent though out his speech