When a writer uses different speech patterns to distinguish characters in a story to make his fiction narrative more convincing, what literary device is he using?

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anonymous · Answer

allegory
metaphor
dialect
oxymoron

anonymous · Answer

C?

conqueror · Answer

D is out

anonymous · Answer

I think it's C

anonymous · Answer

Linguistics. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.

conqueror · Answer

Linguistics is not a choice. @kels200105

anonymous · Answer

It's the def of dialect.

conqueror · Answer

I think you are correct. @CaseyCarns