These are the only two categories of variables that are pre-defined by DICTION and consider the total diversity of the English language.
He had compared the book to dozens of writing samples, considering their diction, syntax, punctuation, source materials, "internal biographical evidence" and "points of anxiety".
Finally, the classes I teach (and this has evolved over time) are centered on close reading, on examining every word, every sentence, considering word choice, diction, tone, subtext, and so forth.
So, consider using diction warmups before you go on the air.
Biggers speaks in an even baritone, with clear, considered diction; his mouth is often set in the kind of slight upturn that seems on the verge of flowering into an open smile.
Nicloux, who at 50 resembles a steeple-fingered intellectual of the old school, from his precise, considered diction to his frowning, high-foreheaded mien, says that, while it was tough, it encouraged a kind of existential phlegmatism.
The "old diction" here are phrases and words from the "Three Collections": the Kokinshū, the Gosen Wakashū, and the Shūi Wakashū, but not much older than that (for instance, the diction of the Man'yōshū was considered too old).
The diction is not clear".
The diction of the singers varied markedly.
The diction was as unfortunate as the image.
She had, he complained, "the diction of a perfumed fart".
