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encompasses imaginative language at the micro and macro levels. The conscious choices made by the poet in the language is a fertile field of investigation in his approach. It is the considered view of
Kuntaka that poetic language always deviates from hackeneyed expressions by its imaginative
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It is manifested at six levels in language, viz. the phonetic level, , the lexical level , the grammatical level , the sentential level , the contextual level and finally the compositional level . Kuntaka anticipates much of the modern stylistic approach to literature and his
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endows poetic language with strikingness and causes aesthetic delight to the reader. Etymologically, the word
Vakrokti consists of two components - 'vakra' and 'ukti'. The first component means 'crooked, indirect or unique' and the second means 'poetic expression or speech'.
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