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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His diction is generally poor and his words often inaudible.
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In matters of diction , the author has a taste for folksy slang.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A Song To St Helena was sung with clarity of diction and musical conviction.
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Above all, Plomer merely touches on the Elizabethan cadence and diction .
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If one can speak of a vocal Achilles heel, then Miss Roocroft's is still her cloudy diction .
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In so far as he contended for a reformation of poetic diction , he undertook a useful task.
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It produces incongruity of style where the thoughts and diction differ from the poet's own.
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Johnson's notion of poetic diction distinguishes it clearly from prose.
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There was a lot of concentration on the voice and good diction .
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They were sentimental as could be, and the rhymes were strained, and the diction archaic.