2.23 Diction Exercise

A Farewell to Arms

a) bed, swiftly, powdered, rich, flashes, channels, boulders, stirred, plain
b)

• Level of Diction: Down to earth, hoi polloi like language
• Concreteness: solid, image provoking
• Music: non musical, dry of melody
• Connotation: Contradiction between war and nature, mood for war, comparative
  

c) In Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway uses hoi polloi like language combined with image provoking sentence combinations to portray a comparison between harmonious acts of nature and destructive warfare.