The correct matches associated with the language component of historical criticism are:
Diction: Puritan text. "The Lord preserved me in safety" versus the modern text "the Lord protected me."
Idiom: Colonial text. "Fall upon" versus the modern text" go after" (both mean to attack.)
Symptom: "Explore text very often indeed they would give us a song" versus the modern text "first they would after sing to us."
The syntax is the arrangement of words. Diction is the meaning of the words we use in the syntax. When writing a text, you have to provide the proper words to create your style. For that, you use syntax and diction. The idiom is an expression, a phrase or a word, that have common meanings for a group of people. With this explanation, we better understand the chosen matches.
