Specific language covers three ranges of styles known as concrete words, abstract words, and general language. Specific language refers to objects or conditions that can be perceived or imagined. Concrete words describe qualities of immediate perception and abstract words refer to broader less palpable qualities (diction refers to qualities that are rarefied and theoretical). General language signifies a broad classes of persons, objects and phenomena. In practice, poems that use specific and concrete words tend …
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…that the grasp of abstract and concrete words differ provokes one to consider how the literal pictures for these word types differ. Bibliography 1) Polking, Kirk. WRITING A TO Z. Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest Books,1990. 2) Roberts, E.V. and Jacobs, H.E. LITERATURE. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1998. 3) Stewart, Kay L. and Kowler, Marian E. FORMS OF WRITING. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice-Hall Canada Inc., 1991. 4) http://hal.ucr.edu/ConfEvents/ABcogsci99.html 5) http://www1.iastate.edu/~cakelly/Abstract-Concrete.html