... American life. In a passage from Money and Class in America, Lewis Lapham expresses his views on how America has assimilated to the value of wealth. Through literary devices such as diction, rhetoric, and euphemisms, Lapham defines the ridiculous form of money that the American Society can't live without. He also describes how America has hit "the bottom line," and how money ... is America's dream. Lapham's diction persuades readers to believe in the corruption of money. He writes, "With the distinction of the aristocratic name or consolation of a flourishing garden," to emphasize the d...

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• Grade Level: High School

... that the maiden is figured as an aristocratic lady, especially, of course, in the eyes of the Jeweller, her diction also engages very precisely with the mercantile. Just as her register is not sustainedly aristocratic, neither is her use of figurative diction insistently courtly." This weakens the article because from start to finish the author tries to argue that the Jeweler represents ... ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the white men force the narrator to repeat "social responsibility" several times. Even though the narrator is the person giving the speech, the audience make him change his diction, they clearly expect the narrator to act in a certain way, as to not offend any white man. It is a portrayal of the blueprint the white society had applied towards the ... ...

• Word Count: 1232
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate