The words the writers chooses to convert a particular meaning.

Contains language that creates an elevated tone.

Standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words and may include contractions.

Recently coined words often used in informal situations. Slang words often come and go quickly, pushing in and out of usage within months or years.

Colloquial expressions

nonstandard, often regional, ways of using language appropriate to informal or conversational speech and writing.

words and expressions characteristic of a particular trade, profession, or pursuit.

nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features. Writers often use regional dialects or dialects that reveal a person's economic or social class.

specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions.

language that denotes ideas, emotions, conditions, or concepts that are intangible.

the exact, literal definition of a word independent of any emotional association or secondary meaning.

implicit rather than explicit meaning of a word and consists of the suggestions, associations, and emotional overtones attached to a word.

the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.

Dealing with the touch, warmth/cold, texture of feeling

Dealing with taste, ingestion, eating, drinking

Dealing with hearing, sounds, noises, listening

Dealing with smelling, our nose

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Lang Quiz

Question	Answer
Diction	The words the writers chooses to convert a particular meaning.
High/formal diction	Contains language that creates an elevated tone.
Neutral diction	Standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words and may include contractions.
Informal or low diction	The language of everyday use.
Slang	Recently coined words often used in informal situations. Slang words often come and go quickly, pushing in and out of usage within months or years.
Colloquial expressions	nonstandard, often regional, ways of using language appropriate to informal or conversational speech and writing.
Jargon	words and expressions characteristic of a particular trade, profession, or pursuit.
Dialect	nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features. Writers often use regional dialects or dialects that reveal a person's economic or social class.
Concrete diction	specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions.
Abstract diction	language that denotes ideas, emotions, conditions, or concepts that are intangible.
Denotation	the exact, literal definition of a word independent of any emotional association or secondary meaning.
Connotation	implicit rather than explicit meaning of a word and consists of the suggestions, associations, and emotional overtones attached to a word.
Imagery	the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.
Visual Imagery	Dealing with sight, seeing
Tactile Imagery	Dealing with the touch, warmth/cold, texture of feeling
Gustatory Imagery	Dealing with taste, ingestion, eating, drinking
Auditory Imagery	Dealing with hearing, sounds, noises, listening
Olfactory Imagery	Dealing with smelling, our nose

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