words, and general language. Specific language refers to objects or conditions that can be

perceived or imagined. Concrete words describe qualities of immediate perception and abstract

words refer to broader less palpable qualities (diction refers to qualities that are rarefied and

theoretical). General language signifies a broad classes of persons, objects and phenomena. In

practice, poems that use specific and concrete words tend to be visually familiar, and compelling.

"But by contrast, poems using general and abstract words tend to be detached and sharp,

regularly dealing with universal questions or emotions". (Polking, Writing A to Z, pg. 124). All

writing of any sort has to be done in one of these 3 types of language; concrete, abstract or

general, and so they are very important to fictional writing.

Concrete nouns name things that we can

In conclusion, these 3 forms of writing draw general observations, abstract conclusions

your friend, Canada, the brain. If you say "Ice cream is cold", the word cold is concrete

in which meaningful and abnormal sentences must be refined, which requires a judgment of the

subjects both encode and retrieve concrete words and sentences faster and more completely

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