Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

Diction is everything. The words we choose make our writing unique. Cliches can make our writing dull. Metaphors make our writing poetic. Big words can make our writing difficult or pompous. The language we choose forms the audiences opinion of the message.
    Language is the vessel for our message. If we use words that are difficult to understand, the message will be difficult to understand. Our language has to be conducive to the message that we tell and the audience we hope to reach.
If I want to tell you a positive message I will have to use positive words. The writer’s children’s books employ children’s language. Without the appropriate words the message simply will not reach the audience.
Sometimes our word choices affect our readers without our knowledge. How does it happen? People react to different words in different ways because of their personal experiences. Words mean different things in the context of their lives. This is unintentional on the part of the writer and reader.
The most important influence our words have is the power of unlocking our imagination. If writing is going to be able to have an effect on us it has to create an environment inside of our mind first.
Consider a novel. To share a message, a novel must first tell a story. Before that it must construct a world in our imagination where that story can enfold. The details given will shape the world. Without enough details the world will be confusing to the mind. A world without details is formless, shapeless and empty. With too many details the message becomes to hard to pinpoint because the mind has exhausted itself trying to comprehend and visualize all of the details. If you describe every object in every room that a character enters your reader will lose sight of the plot.
The most powerful way that words can effect an audience is through the use of figurative language. Metaphors and similes are the most memorable uses of language because they convey not just a literal meaning but an emotional one. Metaphors are much more resonant than literal descriptions. In Fahrenheit 451 ray Bradbury describes a scene in which the main character Guy Montag steals a book that he is supposed to destroy, he first describes the book and its effect on Montag; “A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon in his hands, wings fluttering. In the dim wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush fever, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel.’Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine’ He dropped the book.”(Bradbury 37). This use of metaphor, simile and personification creates a much more memorable image of a moment and helps the reader to understand the theme. We can affect our readers in the same way and make our message memorable.