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TAALS Literature Genres
TAALS Literature Genres
Contents
•Poetry
•Prose
Why does diversity
in reading matter?
Importance of
Reading Widely What do you find
challenging when it comes
to reading?
• Visual imagery. In this form of poetic imagery, the poet appeals to the reader’s sense of
sight by describing something the speaker or narrator of the poem sees. It may include
colors, brightness, shapes, sizes, and patterns.
• Auditory imagery. This form of poetic imagery appeals to the reader’s sense of hearing or
sound. It may include music and other pleasant sounds, harsh noises, or silence.
• Gustatory imagery. In this form of poetic imagery, the poet appeals to the reader’s sense
of taste by describing something the speaker or narrator of the poem tastes. It may include
sweetness, sourness, saltiness, savoriness, or spiciness.
• Tactile imagery. In this form of poetic imagery, the poet appeals to the reader’s sense of
touch by describing something the speaker of the poem feels on their body. It may include
the feel of temperatures, textures, and other physical sensations.
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• Olfactory imagery. In this form of poetic imagery, the poet appeals to the reader’s
sense of smell by describing something the speaker of the poem inhales.
• Kinesthetic imagery. In this form of poetic imagery, the poet appeals to the
reader’s sense of motion.
• Organic imagery. In this form of poetic imagery, the poet communicates internal
sensations such as fatigue, hunger, and thirst as well as internal emotions such as
fear, love, and despair.
Images & Sense Impressions in Poetry
• Irony
Irony is a literary device in which contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different
from what appears to be true. Situational irony is a common type of irony presented in poems just like
in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor-Coleridge.
"Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink...."
Figures of Speech
• Metonymy- using another word that is clearly identifiable or associated with the idea
referred to
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries—Sonnet 27
O, for a draught of vintage! --Ode to a Nightingale
Friends, Romans, countrymen, and lovers, lend me your ears;--Shakespeare
• Synecdoche - Using part for the whole (or vice versa), a class for a whole (like in
brand); naming an object by its material (nice wheels)
No busy hand provoke a tear; No roving foot shall crush thee here.—The Wild Honeysuckle