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... speech . In its broadest definition , a figure of speech may be said to occur whenever a speaker or writer , for the sake of freshness or empha- sis , departs from the usual denotations of ... SPEECH Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY?
... speech . In its broadest definition , a figure of speech may be said to occur whenever a speaker or writer , for the sake of freshness or empha- sis , departs from the usual denotations of ... SPEECH Figures of Speech WHY SPEAK FIGURATIVELY?
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... speech does the poem contain ? EXERCISE : What Is Similar ? 5 Each of these quotations contains a simile or a metaphor . In each of these figures of speech , what two things is the poet comparing ? Try to state exactly what you ...
... speech does the poem contain ? EXERCISE : What Is Similar ? 5 Each of these quotations contains a simile or a metaphor . In each of these figures of speech , what two things is the poet comparing ? Try to state exactly what you ...
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... speech , and when music is combined with poetry the result can be more memorable still . The differences between speech , poetry , and song may appear if we consider , first of all , this fragment of an imaginary conversation between ...
... speech , and when music is combined with poetry the result can be more memorable still . The differences between speech , poetry , and song may appear if we consider , first of all , this fragment of an imaginary conversation between ...
Contents
Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
Copyright | |
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A. E. Housman alliteration aloud ballad beauty bird born called COMPARE connotations Copyright critic dark dead death dream E. E. Cummings Elegy Emily Dickinson English essay eyes Ezra Pound feel figures of speech flower Gerard Manley Hopkins haiku hand hear heart John Keats language light listen live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton mind move myth never night open form paper pauses phrase play poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS Randall Jarrell reader Reprinted by permission rhythm Richard Wilbur Robert Frost sense Shakespeare sing song sonnet soul sound spider stanza story suggestions sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought translation tree University verse W. H. Auden Whitman William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind words wrote York