From Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman,” what words here illustrate the speaker is using colloquial diction? “I think that ‘twi
xt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about?” A. “the south and the women at the north” B. “this here” C. “all talking about rights” D. “white men”
Colloquial diction is characterized as the use of slang or informal expressions to communicate a thought in writing or speech. Such a diction is primarily employed to offer a conversational tone and give it a casual effect. In the given quotation, the use of <u>the words 'this here' display that the speaker employs colloquial diction as the formal language follows a specific syntactical structure that is being ignored here to give a conversational touch</u>. Thus, <u>option B</u> is the correct answer.
