Diction (Latin: dictionem (nom. dictio), "a saying, expression, word"), in its original meaning, is a writer's or speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices...

A diction coach or diction instructor is a professional specialized in teaching proper pronunciation and articulation of spoken language and sung lyrics...

Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry. In the Western tradition...

literature. After finishing his B.Litt., which became his third book Poetic Diction, he was a dedicated poet and author for over ten years. After 1934 his...

of ambiguity, symbolism, irony, and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations. Similarly, figures...

Accent reduction, also known as accent modification or accent neutralization, is a systematic approach for learning or adopting a new speech accent. It...

Macaronic language is any expression using a mixture of languages, particularly bilingual puns or situations in which the languages are otherwise used...

often wrote on the technique of poetry, both in books such as Purity of Diction in English Verse, and in smaller articles such as "Some Notes on Rhythm...

Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic...

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blues. Christgau characterizes rock lyrics as a "cool medium" with simple diction and repeated refrains, and asserts that rock's primary "function" "pertains...

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writers of Anatolian Turkish poetry. Ottoman Divan poetry used "refined diction" and complex vocabulary. It included Sufi mysticism, romanticism, and formal...

slightly in the syntax". Examples of medieval archaisms (in morphology and diction) include: Infinitive in -en: vewen 1. 201, 'to view'; Prefix y- retained...

ability to convey emotions to her audience and her accurate diction, earning her the nickname "Diction Fairy", and is being called by insiders as one of the...

rules of Old English alliterative verse, while maintaining modern English diction and syntax, as can be seen from lines 562-67 of The Nameless Isle: The...

Pirzada Qasim said: Jaun was very particular about language. While his diction is rooted in the classical tradition, he touches on new subjects. He remained...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

Aristotle defines the six qualitative elements of tragedy as "plot, character, diction, reasoning, spectacle and song" (1450a10); the three objects are plot (mythos)...

infer from it that it is the feud that has trapped him. Note also the diction used within the imagery: words like "forked" and "fallen" imply a kind...

by India Today. She was noted for her "mellifluous voice and flawless diction". Uma worked as a video jockey since she was eleven years old. In 1994...

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drama: plot (μύθος mythos), character (ἔθος ethos), thought (dianoia), diction (lexis), music (melodia), and spectacle (opsis). Since the myths on which...

In ancient Greek, ὀρθοέπεια orthoepeia had the wider sense of "correct diction" (cf. LSJ ad loc., or the etymology in the OED), referencing correct pronunciation...

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The tests usually involve retention, memory, repetition, enunciation, diction, and using every letter in the alphabet a variety of times. Announcer's...

That supporting character speaks with De Wolfe's precise but exaggerated diction: "Mess-y, mess-y, mess-y! Sill-y, sill-y, sill-y! Bus-y, bus-y, bus-y!"...

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