Diction

Diction is pivotal to the make up of a narrative. It is the choice of words an authors uses to express all that he wishes. Diction goes beyond what a word actually means. For instance, a word may have a meaning past simply the “denotation” of a word. Authors are able to express use which ever word they may, to equal what ever he or she want it to mean. That is the intricacy of diction. For instance, in Hamlet, The ghost says “But soft, behold! Lo, where it comes again? I’ll cross it, though it blast me. Stay, illusion!”. The ghosts presents a shift in tone here. The author is able to do this by utilizing his own personal kind of diction. By shakespeare doing this, he emmulated fear in his speech. He wants to incorporate this “fear” because shakespeare is presenting a ghost, and is trying to give it the ghost “ghostly” like attributes.