Monday, March 28, 2011

Figures of Speech in Poetry

Figures of Speech are used to relate one term or concept using ideas or emotions which wouldn't naturally be used for the original term.


Figures of Speech 
Poetry depends on turns-of-phrase

Metaphor versus Simile: Being is stronger than Like Being

Personification: Casting Creatures and Things as Family

Paradox: It's True Because It Isn't



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