POETIC FORM:

DRAMATIC MONOLOUGE

a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character

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Poetic Elements

  • Imagery/ Description

    • visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

      • ...In Vegas looking across at a green sunshade at 3:30 in the morning… 

  • Hyperbole

    •  exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

      • “I still have 140 icicles hanging from my bones.”

    • Alliteration

      • Repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words

        • “old withered whore”

 
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“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”

—Toni Morrison