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and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by tone the world leader

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in misunderstandings we've been there take a look at the following passage and [Woman throws clothes out of window]

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it's right there we're just gonna skim skim skim and we're skimming alright

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what would be the best way to characterize the author's diction in

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this passage and here are potential answers all right diction does the

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author use outspoken and forthright diction you could maybe argue that the [Woman laying on a bed]

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author is outspoken we know he has no shame about his love of poetry but

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outspoken and forthright implies a more direct and straightforward style this [Woman on balcony and man waiting below]

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author's language is a little too flowery for this to be our answers Oh

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cross out B all right C can we describe the author's diction is familiar in

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colloquial well it's important to consider that what was considered [Author ordering food to waiter]

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informal language a long time ago might be considered verbose today that being

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said even in the context of the 1800s this author is using formal language [Man shrugs shoulders at language]

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think of it this way if you are trying to casually explain something to a

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friend you would probably not say how did you break representations which

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conduct to certain general results or reason is to imagination as the [Woman discussing maths results to boy]

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instrument to the agent yeah you wouldn't say that though it's not C

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either how about D is the author's diction

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ardent and impassioned well it's clear that he strongly believes what he is

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writing but the words ardent and impassioned imply a great deal of [Author proposing to woman on a beach]

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emotion the writer isn't really appealing to our emotions to make this

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argument if you're trying to incite emotion you might go with something more

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personal than or he not only B holds intensely the president's it is and [Author turns on flashlight]

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discovers those laws according to which present well you get the idea [Person highlighting sentence with yellow marker]

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D is out is the author's writing analytical and precise well we don't see

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any numbers in the text and the author doesn't provide any data or real-life

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example his arguments are more philosophical than analytical which [Man presenting data in conference room]

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works when you're discussing poetry but maybe not in the business world so it's

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not e so the writers work is formal and expository again this can be hard to

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decide when we're dealing with text from a long time ago but even for the time [Man inspecting egyptian symbols]

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period this piece is especially formal if we go back to the quote reason is to

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imagination as the instrument to the agent we can see the philosophical

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seriousness in this approach the language is also expository meaning it

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is intended explain describe and inform he's telling

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us about poetry as he understands it so a it is hopefully that cleared things up [Woman throwing clothes out of window]

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well maybe his next girlfriend will be more forgiving

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