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    Eletelephony by Laura Elizabeth Richards - Poems | Academy of …

    How does Richards use humor in Eletelephony?
    In ‘Eletelephony’ Richards uses humorous language and memorable images in order to create a scene that should easily grab a young reader’s attention. The events of the poem are very unusual but still quite easy to manage. The speaker tries to navigate their way through the language unsuccessfully, a feature of the poem that adds to its humor.
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    Eletelephony by Laura Elizabeth Richards - Poem A…

    The speaker starts out the story strongly but as soon as the elephant tries to use the telephone they start to get confused. The words “elephant” and “telephone” merge together. They become more complex and convoluted in the later lines as the word “trunk” is added to the mix. Throughout the poem the speaker directly addresses the reader or listene...

    Poem Analysis

    ‘Eletelephony’ by Laura Elizabeth Richards is a twelve-line poem that is contained within a single stanza of text. The lines follow a simple rhyme scheme of AABBCC, and so on, changing end sounds from couplet to couplet. This very consistent rhyme scheme is perfect for this piece, or for any that is primarily aimed at a young audience. There is a d...

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    Richards uses several techniques in ‘Eletelephony’. These include but are not limited to personification and alliteration. The first of these, personification, occurs when a poet imbues a non-human creature or object with human characteristics. This is seen through the major action of an elephant trying to use a telephone, something that would not ...

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    Lines 1-4

    In the first four lines of ‘Eletelephony’, the speaker starts off by introducing the main character, an elephant. The line sets up this nonsense poem in a very well-known way, anything can happen next though. The amusing nature of the speaker’s narrationquickly comes into play with the words “No! No!” in the third line. It is as though the speaker accidentally misspoke in their pronunciation of “telephone”. This is done in order to amuse and entertain. The same technique of playing with words...

    Lines 5-8

    Lines five and six are in parenthesis. These bring in the speaker’s thoughts once more as they address the mistakes they’ve made speaking and the uncertainty that they have right now. As the poem progresses the mistakes get more and more pronounced. The speaker really starts to jumble the words, saying “telephunk” rather than “trunk” inline eight. In the seventh line, there is an example of syncopewith the shortening of “however to “howe’er”.

    Lines 9-12

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