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Kinds of Diction:
Kinds of
diction available to poetry:
i) Vulgage
(speech not much affected by schooling).
Handbooks of grammar sometimes distinguish various levels of diction.
A short of ladder is imagined, on whose rungs words,
phrases and sentences maybe ranked in an ascending order of formality, from the
curses of an illiterate thug to the commencement day address of a doctor of divinity.
These levels range from one vulgate through colloquial.
ii)
Colloquial:
The casual conversation or informal writing of
literate people.
iii) General English:
Most literate speech and writing, more studied than
colloquial but not pretentious, up to formal English.
iv) Formal English:
The
impersonal language of education /educated persons, usually only written,
possibly spoken on dignified occasions.
