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Authors use diction to help them convey meaning and achieve desired effects in their works. The word diction means
Read the excerpt from the poem "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" by John Keats.Such dim-conceived glories of the brainBring round the heart an indescribable feud;So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rudeWasting of old Time—with a billowy main—A sun—a shadow of a magnitude.
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