This choice of words serves to...a. suggest that naiveté with which McCandless viewed the dangers presented by the Alaskan wilderness.
What is Diction?
This refers to the choice of words that a person uses to narrate a story in order to have a desired effect on the readers and story.
Hence, we can see that from the given excerpt, there is an interaction between Krakauer and McCandless, and McCandless is naive about the dangers of the Alaskan wilderness and this is shown in the diction used to refer to him.
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