Bo Burnham Diction

Bo Burnham was born in August 21, 1990. He has a myriad of different careers, in which he is successful in, including: a comedian, who travels around the country doing shows and filming them into a movie. His writing career is another, in which he has published a book of poems back in October 1,2013. Bo is, as well, a musician writing his own song lyrics and has been touring since 2009, which he has been in a total of five tours. He is, furthermore, an actor that has starred in about five to six movies and a T.V. show. Bo has a side career as well, he is an Internet Sensation. He became a You Tuber and a vine. As a You Tuber he creates funny and entertaining videos to attract an audience, and as a vine he builds fleeting skits for about six …show more content…
Diction is a choice of words and how people use them. He chose the words that fit perfectly and used them correctly to provide a better description and image. For example, " NOW MAKE THIS PART LOUD! SCREAM IT IN YOUR MIND! DROWN EVERYTHING OUT!" This line uses Elementary level grammar due to the age groups that are eligible to read this poem, never the less, if he used diction in a higher level like blaring instead of loud, after that the children from a base level won't be able to comprehend what the poem might be about. Throughout the whole poem, extraordinary diction has been used, and because of this anyone of any age would be able to understand the meaning of the poem. Another literary device that was used in 'Magic' is tone. The tone is mostly switched throughout the entire poem. The author's attitude starts off as calm, next goes into loud, from there going to tranquil, then works itself to excite. Such as, " Awesome! Who was that? Whose voice was that? It sure wasn't yours! How did you do that? How?! Must be Magic." Here, in this line, the poet uses an excited tone. He is excited because of how true magic actually works and how anyone finally understood that not all magic includes spells, witches, and