Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Poetry

  • Setting-geographical/ temporal
  • Subject/ theme/ thesis
  • Genre( lyric/ sonnets/ ballad/ ode/ epic)
  • Voice/ personna
  • Distance from poem( historical/ cultural)
  • Diction/ use of words/ irony /imagery/ pun ("form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humourous or rhetorical effect")/figures of speech (simile, metaphor, alliteration, assonance, consonance, personification, hyperbole)/ symbolism
  • Structure/ rhyme

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