Diction, Allusion, and figurative Language

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Diction, Allusion, and figurative Language

• How to utilize and find tone and theme

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Diction refers to

• Denotation
• Connotations
• Word choice concrete which refers to the
  particular specific thing OR abstract offering
  something more general
• Concrete Hollow of cheek as though it drank
  the wind/And took a mess of shadows for its meat
  (Yeats)
• Abstract she has a thin wasted look on her face

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Some tools when dealing with diction (5)

• Controlling image you should know this
• Alliteration you should know this
• Onomatopoeia you should know thiswhir, buzz,
  grrrr, argggh
• Style formal, conversational, wordy, poetic,
  lyricaldialectic
• Synesthesia describing one sense in relation to
  another i.e. the cold smell of a potato

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Allusion references where myth and symbol help

• An indirect reference to any person place or
  thingwhich has an assumed understanding
• Enrich meaning
• If not glossed in text you must look up
• Glossing a medieval tool

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Figurative Language 5 types

• Simile like or as
• Metaphor not like or as (extended version)
• Personification making the non-human human
• Hyperbole exaggeration
• Apostrophe Personification addressed

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Note about writing

• Word choice dictates imagery
• Imagery dictates tone
• In a paper you can write Through the word
  choice the poet conveys a tone
• Butyou can not say the reversebe carefulthink
  which element came first to create the other.
• For instanceThrough the use of synesthesia, the
  poet captures a powerful controlling image of the
  cellar..
• Tone in turn helps contribute to the overall
  theme