Diction The poet uses quite a lot of literary terms, in order to make the poem smoother and easier to understand by the reader. ... "Characters cramped" for example is a personification which shows how the letters were squeezed together in order to fit as much as possible onto a letter. ...
For example, among psychologists "psychologists' definitions are often abstract, highly conceptualized, academic, and technical" (Rucker, 2006). ... In contrast, concrete language "identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter" ("Literary Terms", n.d.). ... For example, "education" is an abstract concept - there are no words in the concrete language that can substitute the word "education". ... Nida (1992) calls technical language "a kind of cognitive shorthand, in which semantically specialized terms c...
