Explain and give an example of diction in The Catcher in the Rye.

In The Catcher in the Rye, J. D.
Salinger, through Holden Caufield, uses the following elements of
diction:

• Tone:
  Holden’s voice is implicitly male voice


• American
  voice


• Folksy
  voice


• Youthful, teenage voice with adult voice behind
  it


• verbal irony (sarcasm, overstatement, understatement):
  "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your
  life."


• conversational style:
  


• simple, direct language: "All morons hate it when you
  call them a moron."


• colloquial (slang): calls homosexuals
  "flits"


• lots of repetition:
  "phonies"


• cussing: "Goddam money.  It always ends up
  making you blue as hell."


• many digressions: "It's no fun
  to be yellow.  Maybe I'm not all yellow.  I don't know.  I think
  maybe I'm just partly yellow and partly the type that doesn't give much of a damn if
  they lose their
  gloves."


• Narration: Holden
  is unreliable narrator


• conditional opening: “If you
  really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I
  was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all
  before they had
  me


• non-autobioghical


• anti-Freudian
  (don’t psycho-analyze Holden’s lousy childhood)


• episodic
  plot (like The Odyssey, Huck
  Finn)


• Anti-European: “…and all that David
  Copperfield kind of crap” (Dickens); most European characters define themselves in
  context of family; Holden is saying that he doesn’t define himself with others or the
  past (birth of the American rebel)


• Use of
  Language


• Anaphora:
  (repetition at beginning of sentence) : “It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained
  on the grass on his stomch.”


• Metaphor: “Or you’d just
  passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in
  them”


• Alliteration: “crazy cannon”; “we can smoke till
  they start screaming at us”


• Irony: It’s really ironical,
  because I’m six foot two and a half and I have gray
  hair.”


• Hyperbole: “The one side of my head—the right
  side—is full of millions of gray hairs.”


• Dramatic Irony:
  (dominant figure of speech in the novel)—although Holden acknowledges that he has faults
  and weaknesses, he fails to realize how immature and maladjusted he really
  it