Which of the following best describes the diction of this excerpt from "The Youngest Doll"? "In those days, the family was nearly ruined; they lived surrounded by a past that was breaking
up around them with the same impassive musicality with which the dining room chandelier
crumbled on the frayed linen cloth of the dining room table."
-lofty and archaic
-direct and dialectal
-vivid and figurative
-casual and informal

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In the poem "we wear the mask," paul laurence dunbar voices his repressed anger and frustration toward american society. he repeats the title phrase three times in the poem, using the words mask and we to show that the first use of the phrase is matter-of-fact. in the second stanza, the statement is followed by a period, which shows resignation. however, at the end of the poem, dunbar almost shouts the phrase defiantly. the mask seems to become something he wears proudly. through this gradual emphasis on the phrase, dunbar could be implying that