The Specifics About Specific Language
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.
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