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76Top Tips for Everyday Writing - Linguistic Devices
A great way to perk up your everyday writing and improve the impact of your words is to use linguistic devices. There is a whole range to explore and you can use as many or as few as you like in each piece depending on what you feel is appropriate. ...
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73Poetry Poem - The old tree and the river - personification
A piece I wrote at University in response to a challenge. This piece has been given to my niece who gets married second weekend of September 2011. It will be read at her wedding. Much love to Claire and Gi.
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72Finding A Voice: Avoiding Generalized Poetry
One very common mistake poets make is a tendency to generalize. Finding the voice in your poetry is a difficult and sometimes daunting task. It's also as necessary as the imagery a good poem is riddled with. The voice of a poem does not need to...
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85Dramatic Monologue - what is it and how do you write it? Writing Dramatic Monologue
Shakespeare was the most prolific writer of dramatic monologues. This guide will hopefully explain what Dramatic Monologues are and how to write a dramatic Monologue - where to start.
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67Figurative Languages including Hyperbole and Personification: The ABC of creative writing
Figurative language makes us view the world differently, it enhances our senses. They can be added to fiction to add colour and depth to a character, author uses it to help the reader visualize what is happening in a poem or story, speaker make the indescribable describable when explaining an event. It compares two things in such a way that you find the comparison interesting or even a bit surprising. In order words, it could be a foundation towards creative writing
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87An approach to analysing poetry - Devices used in poetry - Tutorial 3
In my experience as a High School teacher I have found that while students are usually happy to write poems of their own and while indeed, they enjoy experimenting with different types of poetry, they often find the study of poetry a challenge. I have therefore developed an approach to analyzing poetry which, I hope, will be of use to Literature students at High School level.
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72Literary Devices: Meanings and Examples
The English language comprises many literary devices that add richness and life to phrases and expressions. In our daily lives we encounter literary devices in poems, stories, newspapers, plays, songs, movies and even in our very own conversations....
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68You can’t catch wisdom in a butterfly net.
You can’t catch wisdom in a butterfly net. Hello, I know you, But you do not know me, All your effort has led you here. All your puzzles are solved, Inside me, The creation, is me, I am...
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64Personification
There are so many fun things that can be done with poetry. Studying different styles can help strengthen your writing skills and expose writing forms you are more successful at.
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81100 Word Examples of Onomatopoeia
In the Bat Man movies and TV series, when Robin and Bat Man would fight their enemies, onomatopoeia words would be used to express their actions. Words like: KABOOM, BANG, POW, WHACK, WHAM, BOINK, POP... would be shown on the screen. ...
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