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Page 86
... figures of 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 emphasis , departs from the usual denotations of his words . Certainly , when Hamlet ...
... figures of 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 emphasis , departs from the usual denotations of his words . Certainly , when Hamlet ...
Page 87
... Figures of speech , then , are much more than ways of stating what is demonstrably untrue . They do , indeed , state a truth that more literal language cannot . Nor is a figure of speech to be regarded as a kind of wordplay or fantasy ...
... Figures of speech , then , are much more than ways of stating what is demonstrably untrue . They do , indeed , state a truth that more literal language cannot . Nor is a figure of speech to be regarded as a kind of wordplay or fantasy ...
Page 96
... figure from the Latin figura : form , shape ) represent things in definite form and give perceptible shapes to them . Like metaphor and simile , the figures of speech we will consider here may also be of use to writers of prose . When ...
... figure from the Latin figura : form , shape ) represent things in definite form and give perceptible shapes to them . Like metaphor and simile , the figures of speech we will consider here may also be of use to writers of prose . When ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats