Wednesday, February 23, 2011

2.23 Diction Exercise

(a)
effortlessly
uselessly
momentary
debilitating
cynicism
pessimism
strenuous
involuntarily
familiar

(b)
elevation: intelligent diction (kind of a medium-ish high)
connotation: cynically straight-forward
sound: bleak monotone
concreteness: substantial concreteness

(c)
Alain de Botton's cynically straight-forward diction in On Love depicts his pessimistic view on love and loss.

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