KD What does "diction" mean in these sentences?
D
José Carreras, the famous opera singer,
practices diction daily. "I work to say each
word exactly right," says Carreras.
sending music to
others
playing music for
others
the act of
pronouncing clearly
the act of doing
- something over
again

The act of pronouncing clearly

the answer is 4

thats really weird lol

beowulf is filled with alliterations, caesuras, and kennings intended both to give the epic a musical, rhythmic quality and to assist the bard performing the epic in remembering the lines. just as the lyrics to our favorite songs are easier to remember than a context-free list of names or census data, poetic devices like those listed above stick in the bard's mind.

it is not known if beowulf was chanted, sung, or recited more like a modern day poem, but the poetic devices evident in the epic almost certainly had their origin in memorization and oral recitation.