diction

the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation.

Not dick friction, dumbass.

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk Late. We strike
Straight. We

Sing gin. We

Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We

Die soon.

-by Gwendolyn Brooks. Check out her use of word choice, i.e. diction.

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