How do your narrator and your characters speak? What is their level of diction? In Thomas Pynchon's V., where ex-sailors hunt alligators in sewers (among other things), there is plenty of profanity, plus bawdy songs and naval slang. In the Evan Godolphin sections, the diction becomes quite elevated, befitting his background and education. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the monster learns to speak by reading a few classic texts, so it stands to (okay, rather far-fetched) reason that
Levels of Diction
Levels of Diction
Levels of Diction
How do your narrator and your characters speak? What is their level of diction? In Thomas Pynchon's V., where ex-sailors hunt alligators in sewers (among other things), there is plenty of profanity, plus bawdy songs and naval slang. In the Evan Godolphin sections, the diction becomes quite elevated, befitting his background and education. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the monster learns to speak by reading a few classic texts, so it stands to (okay, rather far-fetched) reason that