Close Reading Bingo.

"Nicholson Baker's dull, clear, and low diction creates a common and dull tone." by  Lori.
It violates the no redundancy rule. Not that there is one, but there should be.

 "The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker has a somewhat straightforward diction. The description is precise and has a somber bitterness to it. The rubber handrails "wavered slightly" and had a "black luster." by Running in Circles. Too general, violates rule numero tres. I feel like everyone is describing Nicholas Baker's piece as dull, but.... I thought it was rather sophisticated. Whatever.

"He presents words like "if you really want to know" and "if I have to" that explains his boring life as the average teenager. " by Amanda. She used a quote introduction, which is in direct violation of numero uno. Aw.

"Baker said the lobby was filled with "towering volumes of marble and glass.
Oops, Mariah forgot to put quotation marks at the end of her quote, making it violate rule numero ocho.

and THIS ONE WINS MY VOTE: mostly 'cause it's longer than, like, tres sentences, so props to you,
Mr. Viking Death Metal

J. D. Salinger is an author who uses very low and denotative words to write his stories. This is evident in his story “Catcher in the Rye”, which is written as if it were a personal account of the author's.  In “Catcher in the Rye”, his low, denotative words express a very blunt, down-to-earth nature of the narrator’s tone, while the fear of acting out against his parents’ wishes, not wanting them to have “two hemorrhages apiece” should he tell the reader “anything personal about them” surges through his mind. The narrators makes comments of his parents like “They’re nice and all-I’m not saying that-but they’re also touchy as hell” and says “I mean that’s all I told D.B. about, and he’s my brother” about his brother. These selections suggest a withdrawal from his family and possibly that he feels insecure about who he’s related to and that he does not wish to make his parents mad at him. The use of such words may reflect Salinger’s opinions on other writers at the time and their use of large, figurative language and words. Salinger’s works are not the most image-inducing, but while they don’t drip out of the reader’s mouth with luscious figurative language, they do have a certain tone and different sense to them then found in other author’s works.