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Which of the following best describes the diction of this excerpt?
"Much later, after soldiers and volunteers had arrived to rescue the living and try to access the magnitude of the cataclysm, it was calculated that beneath the mud lay more than 20,000 human beings and an indefinite number of animals putrefying in a viscous soup."
-precise and formal
-simple and casual
-vivid and figurative
-elevated and metaphorical (my answer)

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Medal and fan to those who help! Please check my answer!
Which of the following best describes the diction of this excerpt?
"Much later, after soldiers and volunteers had arrived to rescue the living and try to access the magnitude of the cataclysm, it was calculated that beneath the mud lay more than 20,000 human beings and an indefinite number of animals putrefying in a viscous soup."
-precise and formal
-simple and casual
-vivid and figurative
-elevated and metaphorical (my answer)