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TYPES OF DICTION
AP Language
Used when addressing
a highly educated
audience. This includes
sermons, scholarly
journals, etc.
FORMAL
used when addressing a
familiar or specific audience.
This includes personal letters,
emails, and documents with
conversational or entertaining
purposes. This level also includes
"slang" language, which may be
used to create a specific "flavor"
as in sports casting or novels.
INFORMAL
1. Characteristic of or
appropriate to the
spoken language or to
writing that seeks the
effect of speech;
informal.
2. Relating to
conversation;
conversational.
COLLOQUIAL
SLANG
1. A kind of language occurring
chiefly in casual and playful
speech, made up typically of short-
lived coinages and figures of
speech that are deliberately used
in place of standard terms for
added raciness, humor,
irreverence, or other effect.
2. Language peculiar to a group;
argot or jargon: thieves' slang.