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... sense that the writer is in fact saying something else , the writer is using an ironic point of view . No finer illustration exists in English than Jonathan Swift's essay " A Modest Proposal , " in which Swift creates a very earnest ...
... sense that the writer is in fact saying something else , the writer is using an ironic point of view . No finer illustration exists in English than Jonathan Swift's essay " A Modest Proposal , " in which Swift creates a very earnest ...
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... sense to the average man today . " 2 The society may be right , but it is hard not to think that the average seventeenth - century man had a more exact and colorful diction available to him . The same text , in the King James Version ...
... sense to the average man today . " 2 The society may be right , but it is hard not to think that the average seventeenth - century man had a more exact and colorful diction available to him . The same text , in the King James Version ...
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... sense of death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is under- stood through the senses . To speak of the abstract in concrete terms is what poets frequently do ; in this task , an image can be valuable . An image may occur in a ...
... sense of death is conveyed ; the abstraction " death " is under- stood through the senses . To speak of the abstract in concrete terms is what poets frequently do ; in this task , an image can be valuable . An image may occur in a ...
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