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The imagist movement included English and American poets in the early twentieth century who wrote free verse and were devoted to “clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images.”
Poetry based on absolutely accurate presentation of its subject with no excess words. The first tenet of the imagist manifesto was “To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams
Allusion
Something used for or regarded as representing something else
The World Is Too Much With Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
A Material object representing something, often immaterial
An emblem, token, or sign
Irony
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-wordsworth
Adds layers or levels of meaning that go beyond the surface or superficial
Typically reappears or is referred to several times throughout the work
Simile
Open to multiple interpretations (usually)
Metaphor
Metonymy (Metonym)
Figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events
Tells a story for the purpose of teaching an idea, moral, or principle
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental.
Synecdoche
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Oxymoron
Characteristics:
Deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature.
Personification
A turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities