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Use Of Diction In Corrie Ten Boom's The Hiding Place

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The Life of a Jew A girl, born in Holland, had a life changing experience when Hitler sent troops to attack her hometown. A nonfiction book, otherwise known as The Hiding Place, a story describing Corrie Ten Boom’s perspective of her journey that she took during World War II. The author uses diction, syntax, imagery, and tone to elaborate and describe what is going on in the book, as well as it gives personal thoughts to have a closer relationship with the reader. Diction can make a big difference in the book. The different types diction that the author uses gives the book personality and can really determine how the reader interprets the book. In the book, The Hiding Place, the author uses diction very precisely throughout the whole book. The author writes “Dear Jesus, I whispered as the door slammed and her footsteps died away, how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”(Ten Boom 145). The author uses the word “slammed” to elaborate on how badly the door was shut, and in doing so the reader can conclude that the person that closed the door was angry at the people that the door was being closed upon. This example of diction shows definitively how the author brings emotion and feeling into the book. Syntax is what makes the reader think about why the author wrote something the way …show more content…

The author uses tone to express her emotion that she had when the bombs started to come down on her home town in Holland. The tone abruptly shifts from one of “defeat” and that there “was no possibility at all” for the town, to one of terror as “a brilliant flash followed a second later by an explosion” (62). When the author uses words like “defeat” it gives the reader a sense that it's all over; but the author changes the tone of the book by using words like “later by an explosion”. Which catches the reader off guard, because it’s not over and bombs still going

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