ENG 110 Lecture 1: In-Class Writing Assignment #1_ Textbook Notes
27 Jan 2019
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Poetry - language in which every component/element is significant; significant in that every element points toward or stands for further relationships among and beyond themselves. Meter - pattern of stressed + unstressed syllables. Pastoral poetry - romanticizing life in the countryside. Tone - mood; voice the poet is speaking in. Speaker - the person speaking the poem (not necessarily the poet) Subject - what a poem is about. Allusion - reference to something outside the poem. Diction - the art of selecting words; individual word choice. Reasons to choose a word: meaning, context, sound. Irony - disparity btw different levels or terms within a text. High diction - grand, lofty language; elegant; @ court; grand important subject. Low diction - casual, slang; common people + common things/subjects. Classical irony involves a disparity btw degrees of knowledge. Romantic irony involves a disparity btw levels of consciousness.
