LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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The Elizabethan Age
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The Neo-Classical Age
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The Romantic Age
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The Victorian Age
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first writer to discuss poetic diction in the Western tradition was Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC). In his Poetics, he stated that the perfect style for writing poetry was one that was clear without meanness. He went on to define meanness of style as the deliberate avoidance of unusual words.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poetic diction refers to the operating language of poetry, language employed in a manner that sets poetry apart from other kinds of speech or writing. It involves the vocabulary, the phrasing, and the grammar considered appropriate and inappropriate to poetry at different times.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth maintains that the language of poetry is selection of the real language of men. Coleridge argues that everyone’s language varies according to the extent of his knowledge, the activities of his faculties and the depth and quickness of his feelings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Diction is simply the words the writer chooses to convey a particular meaning. When analyzing diction, look for specific words or short phrases that seem stronger than the others (ex. Bragg’s use of slingshot instead of travel). Diction is NEVER the entire sentence!