Language that creates an elevated tone. Free of informal diction

Standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words

Language of everyday use. Relaxed and conversational

Recently coined words often used in informal situations

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

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

A nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features.

Consists of specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions.

Language that denotes ideas, emotions, condition, or concepts that are intangible.

The exact, literal definition of a word.

The implicit meaning of 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 or texture of feeling

dealing with taste, ingestion, eating, drinking

dealing with hearing, sounds, noises, listening

dealing with smelling, our nose

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Diction & Imagery

Question	Answer
High/Formal Diction	Language that creates an elevated tone. Free of informal diction
Neutral Diction	Standard language and vocabulary without elaborate words
Low/Informal Diction	Language of everyday use. Relaxed and conversational
Slang	Recently coined words often used in informal situations
Colloquial	Nonstandard, often regional, ways of using language appropriate to informal or conversational speech and writing.
Jargon	Consists of words and expressions characteristic of a particular trade, profession, or pursuit.
Dialect	A nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features.
Concrete Diction	Consists of specific words that describe physical qualities or conditions.
Abstract Diction	Language that denotes ideas, emotions, condition, or concepts that are intangible.
Denotation	The exact, literal definition of a word.
Connotation	The implicit meaning of 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	dealing with sight, seeing
Tactile	dealing with the touch or texture of feeling
Gustatory	dealing with taste, ingestion, eating, drinking
Auditory	dealing with hearing, sounds, noises, listening
Olfactory	dealing with smelling, our nose

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