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             The most striking characteristic of Sylvia Plath's journals is the colourful and varied range of vocabulary she applies and the detail to which she describes things. The author was by trade a wordsmith, so naturally the journals are written with descriptive and poetic language. Scattered throughout them are words such as "lemon-acid" and "piss-mouthed pale queer". These words, to the author, were obviously the most fitting way to describe what she wrote about, but would someone else in her position have used the same words? Also, do they signify the same thing to the reader that they signified to the author? This is where the inconsistencies in the definition of 'non-fiction' lay. Perception has a great deal to do with recounting
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