Diction

措辞

The term diction signifies the types of words, phrases, and sentence structures, and sometimes also of figurative language, that constitute any work of literature. A writer’s diction can be analyzed under a great variety of categories, such as the degree to which the vocabulary and phrasing is abstract or concrete, Latin or Anglo-Saxon in origin, colloquial or formal, technical or common .

措辞是指构成任何一部文学作品的字词、短语、句子结构类型，有时还包括比喻用语。我们可以从许多不同的范畴来分析一个作家的措辞，比如词汇和组词是抽象还是具体，是拉丁词源还是盎格鲁—撒克逊词源，是俗语还是正式语，属于技术用语还是一般用语。