Teachers at school often teach students to say "positive diction" or "negative diction", but this is still too vague and imprecise. When I teach my students and daughter, I always remind them to use specific adjectives to qualify the kind of positivity or negativity that they feel with the author's choice of diction. Is it jubilant diction or glorifying diction? Is it violent diction or pejorative diction? There are intrinsic differences among these word choices and the more

The hood made me realize that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing that government doesn't do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programmes and part-time jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn't discriminate."