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Track down any poems, books, songs or dictionaries containing your dialect and immerse yourself in the language. Local libraries, museums, small presses and local history societies are useful sources. Spend time writing down some of your favourite words and exploring their meaning.
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- Definition and Explanation of Dialect
- Examples of Dialects in Literature
- Dialects in England and America
- Why Do Writers Use dialects?
- Related Literary Terms
- Other Resources
Dialects are attached to particular regions. As mentioned above, the way that someone talks in the southern part of the United States is likely to be very different from how someone talks in the northern part of the country. Writers have to be aware that it’s very easy to offend someone through the use of a dialect in a specific piece. If a writer ...
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses dialogue to change the perceived age of the narrator. When telling the story of her youth, Scout’s words are poetic and sophisticated. But, when the writer moves into the time period in which Scout was a child, the dialect of her region in Alabama, comes through. Her dialect is just one example. Her friends and acquaintances also speak in a specific dialect. Here is an excerpt in which Jem is talking about Scout reading skills and Dill’s age: Words like “yon...
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn is another great, similar example to To Kill a Mockingbird. In this book, Twain exaggeratesthe dialect in order to make sure the characters spoke in different ways. Here is a well-known passage that occurs between Huck and Jim. Jim starts off by saying: Then, Huck replies with the following sentences: Although Huck’s language does include some examples of dialect, Jim’s is far more prominent. He uses words like “yo’” and “las’.”
The Works of D.H. Lawrence
In D.H. Lawrence’s poetry readers can find multiple pieces that utilize dialect. Two examples include ‘Poor Bit of a Wench’ and ‘Gipsy.’ Here are a few lines from the later: Then, take a look at these lines from ‘Poor Bit of a Wench’: The dialect in these pieces shows an obvious contrast. One speaker sounds more educated and more in control of their thoughts and words while the other sounds more commonplace and ordinary.
Dialects are found in American and British English that developed from the time in which diverts groups grew up without exposure to those outside their region. This dates back to old and middle English and the major dialects at the time. The dialects were centered around Kentish, Northumbrian, Mercian, and West Saxon dialects in old Englishand Sout...
Writers use dialects in order to convey to the reader an additional piece of information about a character. If the reader is able to physically picture the character and imagine what they sound like, it’s far more likely that they will become invested in the person. Dialects bring a liveliness to the scene, something that for many decades was missi...
Persona: an invented perspective that a writer uses. The point of viewmight be entirely different than their own.Prose: a written and spoken language form that does not make use of a metrical pattern or rhyme scheme.Listen: Mapping How Americans TalkListen: 30 Dialects of the English Language in the UKRead: How to Use Dialect in Fiction WritingPeople also ask
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literature began to embrace dialect: it enabled writers to invoke local and specific voices. This effect is not uniform, however, and dialect functions differently when it is the voice of a first-person speaker in lyric poetry, that of the homodiegetic narrator of a
explore how traditions and practices of dialect poetry play into the ways in which two contemporary organizations position themselves in relation to language variation: the Yorkshire Dialect Society and The Poetry Business.
Neutral Diction: Words that appear ordinary and that you hear everyday. Contractions are often used in poetry that has neutral diction, as well as a simpler vocabulary. Informal Diction: Words and phrases that are slang expressions, or the colloquial – the language of relaxed activities and friendly conversations.
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Poetic language is the fullest possible language. Poets pack the absolute maximum of meaning (in every sense of the word) into every part of the poem. This does sometimes make poems hard to understand, and that may mislead a hasty person to think there is nothing to understand.
What is Poetry Analysis? A poetry analysis is the process of investigating a poem’s content, word usage, and format to improve your understanding of a piece of poetry and it’s multiple meanings.
