"Insist yourself. Never imitate."-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

2.23 Diction Exercise

A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway

a.)
Clear
Swiftly
Powdered
Dusty
Bare
White
Stirred
Cool

b.) Level of Formality-Medium (plain and simple)
Connotation- Literal (Limited, Casual, narrow, and scarce)
Sound-Smooth

c.) In the excerpt from : A Farewell to Arms the author does not use an abundant variety of words which implies that Hemingway does not use abstruse vocabulary and is rather forthright in the passage.

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