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  2. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...

  3. Eye dialect - Wikipedia

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    While mostly used in dialogue, eye dialect may appear in the narrative depiction of altered spelling made by a character (such as in a letter or diary entry), generally used to more overtly depict characters who are poorly educated or semi-literate. [6] The term eye dialect was first used by George Philip Krapp in 1925. "The convention violated ...

  4. Language poets - Wikipedia

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    Language poetry is an example of poetic postmodernism. Its immediate postmodern precursors were the New American poets , a term including the New York School , the Objectivist poets , the Black Mountain School , the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance .

  5. American literary regionalism - Wikipedia

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    In this style of writing, which includes both poetry and prose, the setting is particularly important and writers often emphasize specific features, such as dialect, customs, history and landscape, of a particular region, often one that is "rural and/or provincial". [1]

  6. Cumbrian dialect - Wikipedia

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    Dialogues, Poems, Songs, and Ballads, by various Writers, in the Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects, now first collected: with a copious Glossary of Words peculiar to those Counties. London, 1839: Google ; The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland, to which are added Dialect and other Poems; with biographical Sketches, Notes, and Glossary.

  7. Aeolic verse - Wikipedia

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    Theocritus provides an example of the Hellenistic adaptation of Aeolic poetry in his Idylls 28 – 31, which also imitate the Archaic Aeolic dialect. Idyll 29, a pederastic love poem, "which is presumably an imitation of Alcaeus and opens with a quotation from him," [11] is in the same meter as Book II of Sappho. The other three poems are ...

  8. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Dialects can be defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible." [1] English speakers from different countries and regions use a variety of different accents (systems of pronunciation) as well as various localized words and grammatical constructions. Many different dialects can be identified based on these ...

  9. West Country English - Wikipedia

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    The Late West Saxon dialect was the standard literary language of later Anglo-Saxon England, and consequently the majority of Anglo-Saxon literature, including the epic poem Beowulf and the poetic Biblical paraphrase Judith, is preserved in West Saxon dialect, though not all of it was originally written in West Saxon.