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Choice of words, listed as one of the poetic techniques used in powerful speech.
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diction
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
Key Notes
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New uses of words that expand what a civilization can imagine and say.
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Diction, syntax, imagery, and metaphor are treated as poetic techniques used by Odysseus and Achilles, especially Odysseus, to construct persuasive narratives.
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Jiang glosses the 'enchanted cord' as a person's connection to the divine, which beautiful diction or metaphor can touch.
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Jiang rejects a purely intentionalist account of Homeric technique: Homer is not consciously analyzing Odysseus' reality-making, imagery, or diction; he is inspired and channeling God.
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Shakespeare established English cultural identity and historical memory by innovating in imagery, grammar, vocabulary, and new uses of words.
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Shakespeare's diction makes ordinary words into tools of perception: changing how a word is used can change how the mind imagines reality.
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"...reorders the way you see reality. All right? You also have diction, choice of words, syntax. Okay? And these are things that both Odysseus..."
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"...a scene or a passion will touch the enchanted cord, okay? Diction or metaphor. Enchanted cord. Enchanted cord is just your connection to the..."
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"They'll just drown in their own misery. It is impossible to read the compositions nor celebrate writers of the present day while being startled..."
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"...trying to create a reality and he's using imagery, he's using diction. No, no, he doesn't understand anything. He's just blah, blah, blah, blah,..."
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"rewires the brain to make the civilization see the world in a new way, which causes people to behave differently, OK? So we discussed..."
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"...between 1,700 to 3,500 new uses of words, what we call diction, OK? I'll show you what diction is later on. To put this..."
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"...he does so through new uses of words, what we call diction, OK? So this makes sense, guys, OK? So let's examine how he..."
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"he finds new ways of using it in his plays that forces us to reimagine the world in a different way, all right? That's..."
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"...literary analysis. We can't study the words. We can't study the diction, the syntax. And so it limits our true understanding of what Dante..."
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"...reading at Yale. So, we basically read texts and look at diction and syntax in order to figure out the psychology of the writer...."
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"...does that's different is he reimagines the characters, he uses new diction into the plays to make it beautiful. So this is the Globe,..."
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"...with close reading you want to analyze the word specifically the diction but I I can't do that because it depends on the translation..."
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