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Discuss strategies for effectively evaluating poetry and include the following in your discussion:

Language usage
Metaphors
Figurative Language
Word choice

Please include references and do not copy them word for word.

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Discuss strategies for effectively evaluating poetry and include the following in your discussion:

Language usage
Metaphors
Figurative Language
Word choice

Please include references and do not copy them word for word.

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Language usage
To properly analyze a poem, it must be read word for word. A quick glance through the poem will not allow for proper evaluating. If the words take you into the place the author has created, the use of the language is proper. If an author wrote, "It is sunny today." It advises the reader of the weather. If the author writes, "The sun was so strong, I could see the sweat ...

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