1. DIDLS
ENC 1101

2. Diction What words does the author choose?
What are the connotation of the word choice?

3. Imagery Images relate to the senses Are the images plain? Powerful?
Why did he select those images?

4. Details Details are facts; they do not relate to the senses.
What do the details imply?

5. Language
What is the overall impression given by the language?

6. Jargon Concrete Bombastic Pedantic Esoteric Trite Poetic Learned
This is a vocabulary that describes language.Different from tone, these words describe the forceor quality of the diction, images, and details.These words qualify how the work is written, notthe attitude or tone.
Jargon
Concrete
Bombastic
Pedantic
Esoteric
Trite
Poetic
Learned
Artificial
Vulgar
Cultured
Abstruse
Euphemistic
Connotative
Obscure
Moralistic
Symbolic
Detached
Scholarly
Picturesque
Grotesque
Pretentious
Plain
Slang
Simple
Emotional
Insipid
Homespun
Sensuous
Literal
Idiomatic
Figurative
Precise
Provincial
Exact
Colloquial

7. syntax Simple, compound, complex? Choppy? Flowing? Antithesis?
Chiasmus?
Parallel structure?

8. Antithesis and chiasmus defined:
Antithesis: contrasting ideas sharpened by the use of opposite meanings
Ex) "Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." Goethe
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
Many are called, but few are chosen.
Chiasmus: a reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses
He knowingly led and we followed blindly
Swift as an arrow flying, fleeing like a hare afraid
'Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.' Socrates (fifth century B.C.)

9. Parallel structure defined
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.—Psalm 37: 2
But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.—Psalm 73:2
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.—Psalm 73:6