Friday, October 2, 2009

Poetry

Language:
- Denotation VS Connotation
- Concreteness VS Abstractness
- Figures of speech (simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance, consonance, hyberbole, oxymoron (ex: sounds of silence, cruel love), apostrophe = talking to someone)
- Level of language (slang, informal, formal).
- Imagery (seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling)
- Symbolism
- Irony
- Pun = fun use of words (ex: I should have been sad when my flash light died, but I was delighted. You can tune a guitar but you can't tune a fish. I couldn't remember how to throw a boomerang, but it eventually came back to me.)
- Euphony VS Cacophony
- Onomatopeia
- Rhyme pattern

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