Dinner Dandruff Diction

When writing, diction, syntax and imagery all show the author’s style. In the text “Dinner Dandruff”, Robert Fulghum does an excellent job of showing all three of these. The words he chooses to use, the way he uses them in sentences, and the visual effect he creates through his writing shows the reader he is a humorous author. Robert Fulghum uses multiple examples of diction in the text to show his humor. Diction are the words chosen to make a statement. For example, the sentence “A rational, intelligent, objective person would say that this is simply a mixture of food particles too big to go down the drain, composed of bits of protein”, makes his choice of words sound intelligent, but the subject of the sentence makes it humorous. In