Tuesday, March 1, 2011

3.1 Diction Exercise

a) gristle, flesh, clavicle-snapped, aorta, synaptic, inexorable, hissing, esophagus, explosives, rifling

b) elevation: learned, precise
connotation: clever, artistic

c) Brian Turner's "Here, Bullet" contains diction that has an artistic and clever sense of precision as Turner forcefully confronts the "Bullet" in this mind-twisting war poem.

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