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Dear Bad Writers, Read This Poetic Line Breaks Guide

  • 11/08/201802/24/2023
  • by Hannah Huff

STEP UP YOUR POETRY GAME WITH BETTER LINE BREAKS AND ENJAMBMENT


What makes a poem, a poem? Long story short, poetic line breaks. Of course, many other literary elements fuse to make poems croon, but poetry is visibly distinct from prose because its lines are sundered before the page’s natural end, at clearly calculated points. Poems are dialogues between the presence that is the text and the absence that is the white space revealed.

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8 Key Elements in Every Literary Masterpiece Notes of Oak Blog Discover Literature

8 Key Literary Elements in Every Written Masterpiece

  • 09/20/201802/24/2023
  • by Hannah Huff

WHAT GOOD READERS SHOULD LOOK FOR IN GREAT BOOKS


Good books transcend genre; their caliber doesn’t depend on their focus. Indeed, the very best books are often about nothing at all, other than planning a party (ahem, Mrs. Dalloway), and yet, they can transform the reader through their use of these eight key literary elements. Any written masterpiece should employ these techniques in abundance, synthesizing them to create a reading experience as rich as running your palm over a mossy boulder beside the ocean on an autumn afternoon as your love makes tea inside an amber-lit beach house.

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