"Literature is language charged with meaning; great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
How do you charge language with meaning? In the following ways:
phanopoeia - a visual image
"a bracelet of bright hair about the bone"
melopoeia - sound
"lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore"
logopoeia - meanings, puns, and implications
"Put out the light, and then put out the light"
The first example also contains melopoeia - the alliteration caused by the repetition of the sound "b" - as well as logopoeia - why is the hair "bright"? This language is therefore highly charged with meaning.
The only other item you need to consider is:
Fitness to Purpose.
Unless there is a very good reason for it don't have
Scotty talk like Mr Spock.
That is all the tools you need - go forth and criticise.
Article (c) 1997 John F. McShane M.A.(Hons)Glas
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