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... statement , from Keats's " The Eve of St. Agnes , " sur- prises the reader with the manner of speech and suggests more than the two preceding statements . No doubt the sound FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 155 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias.
... statement , from Keats's " The Eve of St. Agnes , " sur- prises the reader with the manner of speech and suggests more than the two preceding statements . No doubt the sound FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 155 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias.
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... statement . To achieve irony , one simply adds to an assertion the intention of having it mean its opposite . Words mean what people want them to mean , and clear com- munication depends upon some mutual agreement about defini- tions ...
... statement . To achieve irony , one simply adds to an assertion the intention of having it mean its opposite . Words mean what people want them to mean , and clear com- munication depends upon some mutual agreement about defini- tions ...
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... statement reflect any emotional involvement ? Should it ? Does his vocabulary contain any surprises ? Should it ? 6. Apply these questions to Hardy's poem , and try to decide whether one statement is more poetically successful than the ...
... statement reflect any emotional involvement ? Should it ? Does his vocabulary contain any surprises ? Should it ? 6. Apply these questions to Hardy's poem , and try to decide whether one statement is more poetically successful than the ...
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PURPOSE AND FORM | 15 |
Ben Jonson 323 | 27 |
Lyrical and Narrative | 28 |
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allusion arrangement attitude beauty become begins called character comes connotation create dark death describe effect emotional English example experience Explain expression eyes face fact fall feel figurative give given hand head heart human idea imagery images impression involved ironic irony kind language leaves less light literal live look meaning meter mind move nature never night notice objects once passed pattern person picture play poem poet poet's poetry QUESTIONS reader reading repetition response rhyme rhythm Robert seems sense sleep song sound speak speaker speech stand stanza statement story stressed suggest syllables symbols tell thee things thou thought tone tree true trying turned understand verse voice words writer