Anglistik (Fach) / AN 2.2 SS 12 Sitzung 3 (Lektion)
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imagery, figurative languages, figures of speech
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- imagery word pictures = imagerythe impression of the poem can affect: sight touch smell hearing taste
- figurative language intentional departure from the normal order, construction or meaning of words
- figures of speech (& the subcategories) figures of speech: various uses of language which depart from costumary construction, order or significance in order to affect a special effect or meaning tropes: the words in the figure undergo a decided change in meaningrhetorical figures: the words retain their literal meaning but their rhetorical pattern is changed
- denotation a meaning as defined in the dictionary a word can have many denotations --> context!
- connotation overtones or suggestions of additional meaning that it gains from all the contexts in which we have met it in the past some words denote the same thing but have sharply different connotations. (horses sweat and men perspire, but ladies only glow)