... most extensive and richest vocabulary. He draws from all areas of language and from all registers."" (Michel Delville) Shakespeare writes with a diction written to be preformed by an actor to an audience, he uses this to his advantage to show insight into character without direct ... fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors."" Hamlet is shown, through Shakespeare's diction, as an intelligent and well educated prince. He uses words like disposition and promontory, words not recited by the less educated men of the ... descri...

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• Grade Level: High School

... an Annexe. The idea that he is dull and generally unnoticeable is further reinforced when he stands behind "M" in a queue and she fails to even notice his presence. The narrator's diction is simple and slightly clumsy, for example " used to look down over the road over the frosting- which suggests that maybe he is not well educated and may be from ... a lower social class than the object of his desire. When referring to M's hair his diction becomes notably more poetic and is in stark contrast to the rest of his diction, which is in the main very factual and dull. The fact that such a la...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . Robert Frost writes about these anxious thoughts everyone thinks about before making a decision in his poem. The speaker in the poem "The Road Not Taken" uses metaphor, vivid diction, and symbolism to illustrate the process humans go through when making decisions. In the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, the speaker uses metaphors to illustrate ... the reader that after making that decision one succeeds or learns from one's mistakes. In the poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, the speaker uses vivid diction to illustrate the process we go through when making decisions. F...

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• Grade Level: High School