Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Test Prep

The term I am going to further explore is "Abstraction"
Dictionary definition: Language that describes ideas or qualities rather than tangible, observable people, places and things that are described in concrete language

Creative Writing Exercise Website: http://www.practicalcreativewriting.com/abstract-creative-writing-exercises/

Example:

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;       
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:       
Praise him.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins 1918

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