writing+is+about+making+choices

The boy surveyed the class, congratulating himself for snatching the highest grade on the test.  5.  Once you identify an author's diction, you muse analyse it. This means that you write commentary about the word or phrase and the effect that the word or phrase had on you. Synonyms for commentary are analysis, interpretation, and explication.   You must discuss the connotation of the word or phrase to do a good job of **diction analysis**. You comment on the reaction you had to the word choice and what emotional response is brought out in you. Here is an example of diction analysis and commentary on the word __surveyed:__  [|**sentences**]. Understanding the sentence is the key to [|clear written language]. [|Style of writing] will depend partly on the writing and partly on the writer's taste. Rules of style are only advice, and advice that is relevant to writing a poem will not be relevant to writing an essay about a poem. []  ||
 * Two words are important here: __surveyed__ and __snatching.__ They are the words with the strongest connotations. 