what is a literary device of high diction and low diction?
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Not sure if this is what you mean, but there is a literary device called 'bathos', from the Greek for 'deep'.\nThis is used when someone speaking in a very formal register suddenly drops into a very coarse, informal register- usually slang. This is most commonly used for comic effect (arguably ...;-)). For example:\n\n"I resepectfully submit, Your Honour, that this reprobate be incarcerated for as long as the law will allow, as he is a complete dickwit"\n\nA very poor example and, yes, not funny; but you get the gist...
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LMAO: Laughing My A** Off\n\nKK: Okay\n\nThese shorthand are often used in chat rooms and online games for quick and brief words.
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hahahahahaha!\nta \nit's an oldie but a goodie!\n\n& some funnies 4 u.\nENGLISH DEFINITIONS FOR THE DYSLEXIC \n\nAntelope (v): to run off with your mother's sister.\nAssassination (n): an arrangement to meet a donkey.\nBasket (n): a short nap in the sun.\nCircumstantial (n): circumcision on a really big baby.\nCollonade (n): fizzy enema.\nDefence (n): something to sit on for people who can't make up their minds.\nHatchet (n): small, bird droppings that fall from the sky.\nHeadband (n): top of the bill at a rock concert.\nHormone (n): the sound a prostitute makes when she's not been paid.\nLaminate (v): to artificially inseminate a sheep. \nInduction (n): induced labour in a duck.\nMultilingual (n): engaging in cunnilingus with multiple partners.\nNegligent (n): cross-dresser.\nMisfit (n): an attractive young woman.\nMenopause (n): break in conversation to allow men to get a word in edgeways.\nPortent (n): The Millennium Dome.\nPropaganda (n): a wooden support for one-legged male geese.\nVagrant: (n): confused insect.\nWilly-nilly (n): male who continually catches their penis in their zipper.
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Chambers' book of Idioms is a very good option\n\nOnline, this is a very good site you can check:\n\nhttp://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/\n\n\nGood luck!
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Poetry or writing\n(I know it sounds lame)
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No longer than the publication's limit for such editorials.\n\nKeep it pithy, short & sweet.\n\nBrevity is the soul of wit.  Being long winded makes you a half wit. Being very brief makes you an uber wit.
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Repeating a word or phrase for emphasis is a literary device called anaphora.  \n\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=anaphora&db=*\nhttp://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html#4
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I agree with the suggestion "quaere sapientiam" = seek wisdom\n\n"literate" is a variant spelling of "litterate" which can mean "elegantly", "literally", "cleverly" .\n "humaniores" is referring to those who are "more human", "more refined"\nso the phrase probably means "elegantly more refined"\n\nHowever you may have misquoted "Literae Humaniores" which refers to the study of Classics (also known as the Humanities), and may be translated as "more refined scholarship."
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euphemism for drunken hallucination
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try the dictionary you lazy bum
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I'll help you with type of characterization first\nthis means what the character is like ie static dynamic round, static and flat. In a short story there is rarely room for more than one dynamic character\nfigure of speech has a few forms similies, metaphors and exageration\nmetaphors compare one thing without using like\nsimilies are sentences that use like\nexageration.......well you know exagerating stuff I'm so hungry I can eat a horse\nelements of literature are the following\nsetting\nplot \ncharacterization\nmethods of characterization\npoint of view\nconflict\ntheme\n tone\nsorry I don't know the symbol thing though!!\nhope I helped you\nif you need more help you can e mail me
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just try googling the words "literary terminology"
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dawdling?  delaying?  foot-dragging?  languid?  torpid?\n\nlaissez-faire?
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http://www.dictionery.com/
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Satire is a literary technique which pokes fun at a subject by pointing out its inconsistencies or mess ups. Typically, it's used to provoke or prevent something changing. The targets can be an individual organization or a state. \nex. The Onion\n\nProse is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its closer resemblance to the patterns of everyday speech.
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col·lo·qui·al   \n\n   1. Characteristic of or appropriate to the spoken language or to writing that seeks the effect of speech; informal.\n   2. Relating to conversation; conversational.\n\nIt means "conversational", or relating to a conversation.
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'FISH'\nGeorge Bernard Shaw's old joke on English peculiarities:\n'GH'->'F' as in ROUGH\n'O' ->'I' as in WOMEN\n'TI'->'SH' as in NATION