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... metaphor . It may be defined as the application of language which is used in one field of thought to something in another field . The examples given in connection with sleep were all metaphors . The simile ( sim ' i lē ) differs from ...
... metaphor . It may be defined as the application of language which is used in one field of thought to something in another field . The examples given in connection with sleep were all metaphors . The simile ( sim ' i lē ) differs from ...
Page 166
... metaphor and simile . Only three of them will be mentioned here , and it will be found that all of them are of comparatively slight occurrence , and may usually be classed as " kinds of metaphors " when they do occur . Personification ...
... metaphor and simile . Only three of them will be mentioned here , and it will be found that all of them are of comparatively slight occurrence , and may usually be classed as " kinds of metaphors " when they do occur . Personification ...
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... metaphor of true feeling and the false and artificial metaphor may be connected with the difference as explained in a preceding chapter between enrich- ment and ornament . A poet's conception of a thing will be enriched by the ...
... metaphor of true feeling and the false and artificial metaphor may be connected with the difference as explained in a preceding chapter between enrich- ment and ornament . A poet's conception of a thing will be enriched by the ...
Contents
ENRICHMENT | 16 |
POETRY AND PROSE | 33 |
THE MECHANICS OF POETRY | 49 |
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accented alliteration anapestic Antony assonance beauty beginning blank verse breath cadence CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called cesura chapter Charmian choices Cleopatra cloud consonants couplet dark dead death delight discussion doth dreams earth effect Elegy elements emotion enrichment epic EXERCISE expression eyes feeling flowers free verse give harmony hath heart heaven heroic couplet iambic pentameter idea Iliad John Brown's Body language light lines long day wanes look lyric means metaphor meter metrical mind mood moon nature never night o'er onomatopoetic Paradise Lost passage phrase poem poet poet's poetic poetry prose reader rhyme rhythm rhythmic seems selection sense sestet Shakespeare sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speech spondees stanzas stars stressed sweet syllables symbolic thee thine things thou thought tion tone trochaic verse voice vowel wind words