Use Of Diction In Netherland

Joseph O’Neill’s, “Netherland,” teaches us about the character of the competitive sport, cricket, and how people specifically behave at the games. O’Neill uses an exciting tone to arouse his audience to be as mentally involved with the sort as the spectators were at the time. The audience of this excerpt is sports fans; O’Neill uses the diction he does to reach out to these audience members and, in turn, they are the ones that are the most intrigued by the excerpt. This also shows that O’Neill’s purpose in writing this excerpt is to excite the audience of sports fans with the game Cricket. Because of the exciting tone of the sports event he is describing, one can infer that his purpose in writing it was to excite the fans of these sports. …show more content…
For example, he is writing about progressions and events that took place in the Cricket game, while using phrases such as, “fell prey to the suspicion” or, “a conspiracy to rob them of victory,” as the excerpt progresses to heighten the tension of the reader as well. O’Neill uses his diction to create excitement at the beginning, but he makes a drastic difference of the amount of excitement from the beginning to the end of the excerpt. This not only shows that he is reaching out to show the reader about the cricket game, but he also is grabbing the reader’s emotions to make them feel just as a part of the game as the narrator …show more content…
This gives the reader a sense of a personal environment because O’Neill is directly drawing them in with his home-type language. Also, his diction shows that he is attempting to use an exciting tone to call the readers in this way. He uses words and phrases such as, “hullabaloo,” “heckling,” and “wisecracks,” to excite the reader by presenting them with informal language used around the