1. "This lower diction gives the reader the idea that the author is trying to reach out to the everyday person."
From Chillin In The Nyle. He uses "the reader" and breaks rule number four.
2. "Comparing the black handrails, "like the radians of black luster," shows the way he is able to control his writing."
From Back of the Napkin blog. He uses the word "shows" and breaks rule number 6.
3. "Baker describes the escalators themselves that rise to his office, “They were the free-standing kind: a pair of integral sins swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight.”
From The Lost Message of Words He uses a long quotation and breaks rule number two.
4. "It also seems manipulating and compulsive like there is a hidden problem within the character that is expressed through sharp abrasive language."
From Apples to Apples He switches to past tense and breaks rule number seven.
Best Example
From InsideOut
The highly descriptive and scholarly diction, the almost philosophical and appreciative tone inserted into Nicholson Baker's connotation, and the harmonious flow ringing throughout the first page of his novel, instill dreamy, practically romantic admiration for the mezzanine Baker speaks of, as this first page is read. Define Mezzanine: [mez-uh-neen, mez-uh-neen] the lowest balcony or forward part of such a balcony in a theater, or in this case, an office building (perhaps, I have not read this book). Baker elaborates on the mezzanine, the centerpiece of his novel, with a subtle passion, as he begins his journey to his office. He observes a "needly area of shine . . . [fall] against their brushed-steel side-panels" and the "long gloss highlights" waver on the black rubber handrails-- and he is amazed. He adores these simple flecks of beauty that he comes across in his office building (?) and he watches them with fanciful amusement, absorbing each simple elegance with the a happy heart.
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