English

Words that specifically name or describe things or persons

Words that express general ideas or concepts

Any language deemed suitable for verse

A brief, sometimes indirect, reference in a text to a person, place or thing

The lowest level of diction, it is the language of the common people

The casual or informal but correct language of ordinary native speakers

The ordinary speech of educated native speakers

The heightened, impersonal language of educated persons, usually only written

A particular variety of language spoken by an identifiable regional group or social class of persons

The literal, dictionary meaning of a word

An association or additional meaning that a word, image, or phase may carry, apart from its literal dictionary definition

A word or series of words that refers to any sensory experience

The collective set of images in a poem or other literary work

A japanese verse form that has three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables