DICTION

Authors utilize diction to portray different environments or meanings to their writing. One way of using diction is to use a word or words that have multiple meanings. That way when analyzing the text, the reader must consider all possible meanings OR how they relate to other aspects of the text. Diction can also effect the tone of a poem such as how Sylvia Plath does in her poem Daddy. She starts off the poem with a sad tone but the poem progresses, she beings to use diction with harsh sounds that portray a more angry tone. Words such as.. Ich, Auschwitz, Taroc, and swastika. Diction allows an author to portray a second meaning below the surface of what is written and to change the tone of the text without actually saying so.