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What does diction mean?

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Noun
  1. The effectiveness and degree of clarity of word choice and expression.
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His elaborate diction and exquisite articulation have since become a positive work of art.
But Pinsky's more fully developed critique is of an emerging poetic diction susceptible to a too easy appropriation.
These are the author's italics, brackets, inverted commas, and the author's absurdly pretentious diction.
Even woeful diction can be excused, since, in the mad rush to expand radio, good announcers were not easy to come by.
Her diction, her art of prosody, the amorous passion that he brings into her troubling singing make up for her hard and rather metallic tone.
At the most literal level, a juxtapositional diction and syntax are primary to her poetics.

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