POETRY 3
I. The language of poetry:
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dibtión: selection of words in a poem; connotation vs denotation,
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imagery: the use of images that appeal to one or morę of our senses; images establish mood and arouse emotion in readers; types ofjm.ag.es: visual (sense of sight), olfactory (smell), tactile (touch), auditory (hearing), gustatory (taste),
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figurative language: the ilse of words that go beyond their literary meaning;
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figures of speech (words or phrases that depart from literał language)
• metaphor - implied comparison, two things compared are identified with each other; Greek “transfer”; genuine (found in good poetry, e.g.
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“The leaves fell sorrowfully”) vs trite/ deśd metaphors (standard
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phrases, e.g. “years fly”, “flood of tears"); conceit (complex metaphor which draws a parallel between two very distant concepts; Metaphysical
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• simile - stated comparison; the use of “like”, “as”; e.g. “He fell like a
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stone”; epic (Homeric) simile: descriptive comparison of greater length usually containing some digressive reflections,
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• metonymy - substituting a word for another word closely associated
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with it, e.g. “crown” for “royalty/ ruler”,
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• synecdoche - a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, e.g. “sail” means “ship”,
• personificatión (prosopopeia) - an inanimate or an abstract concept is described as if it had human qualities, e.g. death as a "slave to fate,
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- rhetorical devices: based on the specific use of syntax
• antithesis - emphasizes the contrast/ opposition of ideas, e.g. “Give
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• ellipsis - omission of a word or phrase from a sentence which can be
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• hyperbole - exaggeration used to heighten the rhetorical effect, e.g. “I
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