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What main difference in the authors' diction is illustrated by these quotations from "The Immigrant Contribution" and "A Quilt of a Country"?The ideal of the "melting pot" symbolized the process of blending many strains into a single nationality, and we have come to realize in modern times that the "melting pot" need not mean the end of particular ethnic identities or traditions.—John F. Kennedy, "The Immigrant Contribution"[America] . . . was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts that have been one of its great folk-art forms, velvet and calico and checks and brocades. Out of many, one. That is the ideal.—Anna Quindlen, "A Quilt of a Country"a. Quindlen uses more formal, or serious, diction than Kennedy uses.b. Quindlen uses less poetic, or imagistic, language than Kennedy uses.c. Quindlen uses more concrete, or specific, language than Kennedy uses.d. Quindlen uses less old-fashioned, or archaic, language than Kennedy uses.

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