What are the 8 types of Diction and its examples?

1. GROUP
DICTIONS
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2. DICTION AND
ITS TYPES

3. What is
diction?
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4. Careful selection of words to
communicate a message or
establish a particular voice
or writing style.
Purpose of Diction:
1. Create a certain tone that supports
a purpose.
2. Support the setting.
3. Establish a narrative voice and
tone.
4. Bring characters to life.
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5. 1.Formal
2.Informal
3. Pedantic or Jargon
4.Colloquial
5.Slang
6.Abstract
7.Concrete
8.Poetic
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6. 1.
Formal diction
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7. The use of sophisticated language, without slang
or colloquialisms.
Formal diction sticks to grammatical rules and
uses complicated syntax
It's a writing that establishes a professional tone.
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× Hello, young man. It is a true pleasure to make your
acquaintance. How are you feeling today?
× Would you care to explain the reasoning behind
your decision to leave the gathering early?
× Her terrible temper won't endear her to many if she
refuses to control her outbursts.

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2.
inFormal diction

10. Informal diction is more conversational and often used in
narrative literature.
This casual vernacular is representative of how people
communicate in real life, which gives an author freedom to
depict more realistic characters. Most short stories and
novels use informal diction.
It's a conversational or friendly writing style
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11. Hey, kid. Nice to meet ya. What's up?
Why'd you leave the party so soon?
If she doesn't stop yelling, she'll lose all her friends
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3.
PEDANTIC OR JARGON

13. This is when a writer is highly detailed or academic in their writing.
Words are chosen specifically to convey only one meaning. It is
sometimes used in literature when characters speak in highly
educated manner, as in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Pedantic diction refers to elevated language used by a character
to display his or her importance
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Cache (computer jargon)- a place for short term memory
storage
Stat ( medical jargon)- immediately
Sweat equity ( business jargon)- getting a stake in the
business instead of pay
Code Eight (police jargon)- officer needs help immediately
“You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin that
your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.”
– “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

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4.
Colloquial diction

16. Is conversational in nature and can be seen
through the use of informal words that represent
a specific place or time, used to refer to things in a
unique way. It adds color and realism to writing.
Used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not
formal or literary.
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17. Ain’t pop (soft drink)
Y’all sweeper (vacuum)
Gonna runners (sneakers,
running shoes)
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5.
Slang diction

19. Slang is a kind of language that depend on context or
are restricted to a particular group of people, usually
popularized for its ease of use and how people use it
to express themselves.
Slang is made out of parts of other words, or phrases.
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Anak ng Kamote, meaning Son of a Bi-
Diba, which has the same use as “isn’t it”, used
for asking questions casually.
Charot, which is used like “just kidding” in english

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abstract diction

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Words that do not appeal imaginatively to
the reader's senses.
Abstract words create no "mental picture"
or any other imagined sensations for
readers.

23. A couple holding hands.
A child hugging her mother.
A child kissing his mother.
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7.
Concrete Diction

25. The use of words for their literal meanings and
often refer to the things that appeal to the
senses.
The meaning is not open to interpretation
because the writer is specific and detailed in their
phrasing.
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"He sat on the bottom step, eating an apple and
skimming the "Help Wanted" ads".
"She wore the purple dress with the amethyst
choker“
" A light green SUV rolled quietly up to driveway
and stopped"

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8.
poetic Diction

28. Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the
linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors
used in the writing of poetry. In the Western
tradition, all these elements were thought of as
properly different in poetry and prose up to the time
of the Romantic revolution.
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29. × Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing A
plant with most cutting grows, Most barren with best
using. Why so? More we enjoy it, more it dies; If not
enjoy’d it sighing cries- Heigh ho.
× My soul is enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping
swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet
singing; And thine doth like an angel sit Beside a helm
conducting it, Whilst all the winds with melody are
ringing...
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30. Thank
you!!
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