The words the writer chooses to convert a particular meaning.

Categories of Diction

These are good qualifying adjectives

High or formal diction, Neutral diction, Informal or low diction

High or formal diction

Usually contains language that creates a elevated tone. High or formal diction is free of slang, idioms, colloquialisms, and contractions. Often contains polysyllabic words, sophisticated syntax, and elegant word choice

Uses standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words and may include contractions.

Informal or low diction

The language of everyday use. It is relaxed and conversational. It often includes common and simple words, idioms, slang, jargon, and contractions

Slang, Colloquial, Jargon, Dialect, Concrete diction, Abstract diction, Denotation, Connotation

Refers to 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.

Expressions that are nonstandard (unusual), often regional, ways of using language appropriate to informal or conversational speech and writing.

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

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

Consists of specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions

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

Is the exact literal definition of a word independent of any emotion association or secondary meaning.

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

An effective line of reasoning builds a deliberate, cohesive progression that seamlessly connects a thesis to its supporting evidence and final insight, keeping the overall argument interesting and unified

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

Dealing with touch, warmth/cold, texture of feeling

Dealing with taste, ingestion, eating, drinking

Dealing with hearing, sounds, noises, listening

Dealing with smelling, our nose

Other imagery cateogories

Natural, mechanical, decayed/rotten, nautical, morbid, domestic

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AP Lang Diction

Term	Definition
Diction	The words the writer chooses to convert a particular meaning.
Categories of Diction	These are good qualifying adjectives
Levels of Diction	High or formal diction, Neutral diction, Informal or low diction
High or formal diction	Usually contains language that creates a elevated tone. High or formal diction is free of slang, idioms, colloquialisms, and contractions. Often contains polysyllabic words, sophisticated syntax, and elegant word choice
Neutral diction	Uses standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words and may include contractions.
Informal or low diction	The language of everyday use. It is relaxed and conversational. It often includes common and simple words, idioms, slang, jargon, and contractions
Types of Diction	Slang, Colloquial, Jargon, Dialect, Concrete diction, Abstract diction, Denotation, Connotation
Slang	Refers to 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 that are nonstandard (unusual), often regional, ways of using language appropriate to informal or conversational speech and writing.
Jargon	Consist of words and expressions characteristics of a particular trade, profession, or pursuit.
Dialect	A nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features. Writes often use regional dialects or dialects that reveal a person's economic or social class.
Concrete diction	Consists of specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions
Abstract diction	Refers to language that denotes ideas, emotions, conditions, or concepts that are intangible.
Denotation	Is the exact literal definition of a word independent of any emotion association or secondary meaning.
Connotation	Is the implicit rather than explicit meaning of a word and consists of suggestions, associations, and emotional overtones attached to a word.
Line of Reasoning	An effective line of reasoning builds a deliberate, cohesive progression that seamlessly connects a thesis to its supporting evidence and final insight, keeping the overall argument interesting and unified
Imagery	The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience
Visual	Dealing with sight, seeing
Tactile	Dealing with touch, warmth/cold, texture of feeling
Gustatory	Dealing with taste, ingestion, eating, drinking
Auditory	Dealing with hearing, sounds, noises, listening
Olfactory	Dealing with smelling, our nose
Other imagery cateogories	Natural, mechanical, decayed/rotten, nautical, morbid, domestic

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