Diction

Diction is word selection. It includes a look at the way the words were selected according to such as denotation, connotations, and sounds.

In analyzing diction:
 * Determine the level of diction (high, middle, low)
 * Characterize the diction (think traits from character analysis) with adjectives that describe its manner more accurately and concretely than "high," "middle," and "low."
 * Identify convincing examples of the level and the "characterization" or type.
 * Determine why the poet went with the level and type of diction he did? In short, how does it contribute to his purpose, his idea, his effect?