Wednesday, February 23, 2011

2.23 Diction Exercise

This is over "On Love" by Alain de Botton.

a) momentary, cynicism, spectrum, debilitating, coup de foudre, pessimism, inclination, strenuous, indirectly, involuntarily

b) Connotation- poetic, elegant, formal
Sound- melodic, soft
Concreteness- abstract, beautiful, clever

c) Alain de Botton's elegant, melodic, poetic language expresses hopefulness for love, and a passion for finding love.

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