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examples of pretentious and awkward diction?
I have to find an article in a newspaper, a memo from an organization, or a speech that contains examples of pretentious and awkward diction. I need help! I have to also explain their effect and suggest ways to revise it to make it clearer as well as explain if the writer is doing so intentionally or not. Please and thank you!
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- danieltlee1Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
Ottawa Citizen, Dan Leeth described the landscape of the Grand Canyon as vast emptiness
Randall Denley, speaks of the unions and their “kangaroo courts”, a metaphor that is commonly used without any knowledge of it’s meaning.
Jamie Portman contained words like “deft direction” and “performers cavort”.
“The route to the rim slices through an open valley that intrigues with starkness, yielding no hint that a chasm bisects the land beyond. Dust devils dart and twist, and parched grasses huddle in isolated clumps.”
You will find the author in the link uses them as she writes about them (unintentionally)
Source(s): www.term-papers.us/ts/da/evj96.shtml
