Dr. Ramirez
Rider Haggard. Montezuma's Daughter

DICTION
"The choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language in a literary work, the manner or mode of verbal expression, particularly with regard to clarity and accuracy. Sidelight: Poetic diction refers to words, phrasing, and figures not usually used in ordinary speech and often utilizes archaisms, neologisms, epithets, kennings, periphrases, connotations, and hyperbaton. "
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Speeches in the novel can be found:
182 Chapter 22 Otomie's declaration of love and her price: imagery, emphasis, ironic, she is more informal, more personal, tone of warning

189 Chapter 23 Cuitlahua's speech about Thomas's fate
Otomie's speech on Thomas's behalf: forceful, threatening, strategic, rhetorical question, expresses humility and maintains her stature.

193 Chapter 23 Thomas's advice to the Aztecs
Persuasive, use of rhetorical question, use of reason. Formal tone: Most noble Cuitlahua. Directive--use of short sentences. If/Then. Repetition

196 Chapter 24 Otomie's vow to avenge her father's death
Vowing, Evocation, like a prayer. Use of commas--pause for thought--they also allow for clauses, repetition of father

203 Chapter 25 Guatemoc's advice to Thomas

211 Chapter 25 Otomie's speech to the Otomie
Formal in greeting, exhortation (warning). . . builds up to her critique; Haggard uses images to convey her argument, metaphor, analogy

216 Chapter 26 Guatemoc's speech to the Council