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Prose & poetry : a comprehensive guide to understanding literature

Print Book, English, ©1998
J.W. Walch, Portland, Me., ©1998
iv, 118 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
9780825138027, 0825138027
45381278
BASIC TOOLS. Senses
Person
Mood
Plot
Conflict
Style
Theme
Point of view
Slant
Setting
Character
FIGURES OF SPEECH. Figures of speech
It figures
Antithesis
Apostrophe
Hyperbole
Irony
Literary illusion
Metaphor
Metonymy
Oxymoron
Personification
Simile
Synecdoche
Understatement (Litotes)
POETRY TOOLS. Melody (alliteration
assonance
rhyme)
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme scheme
Rhythm
Stanza patterns
Types of poetry (epic
narrative poetry
lyric poetry
acrostic
ballad
blank verse
didactic poetry
dramatic poetry
elegy
epigram
epitaph
free verse
haiku
light verse
limerick
ode
parady
pastoral
satire
sonnet
wordplay)
Explication of poetry
Sample questions for the explication
Sample explicatin elements
Contains reproducibles
"RTB 0-38027."