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tmarshconnors · 8 months ago

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Power of Repetition in Public Speaking

After watching "Oscar-winning actor & writer Tom Hanks gives the Oxford Union an acting lesson" on YouTube I felt inspired to write this blog. The link below if interested.

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Public speaking is an art that transcends mere words; it involves a deep understanding of human psychology, effective communication techniques, and the strategic use of rhetorical devices. Among these, repetition stands out as a powerful tool that can elevate a speech from ordinary to extraordinary. In this blog, we delve into the Repetition class in speaking, exploring how this technique can captivate audiences, enhance message retention, and leave a lasting impact.

The Basics of Repetition:

Repetition involves the intentional reuse of words, phrases, or ideas within a speech. When employed thoughtfully, it can create emphasis, reinforce key points, and establish a rhythm that resonates with the audience. There are various forms of repetition, each serving a unique purpose:

Anaphora: This involves repeating the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. For example, Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech masterfully uses anaphora with the repetition of "I have a dream."

Epistrophe: In contrast to anaphora, epistrophe repeats a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences. Winston Churchill's famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech is a classic example of epistrophe in action.

Anadiplosis: This technique involves repeating the last word of one clause or sentence at the beginning of the next. This creates a seamless connection between ideas and builds momentum. Yoda's sage advice, "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering," is an example of anadiplosis.

The Impact of Repetition:

Emphasis: Repetition serves as a spotlight, directing the audience's attention to specific words or ideas. By repeating a key point, a speaker can emphasize its importance, making it more likely to be remembered.

Rhythm and Flow: A well-crafted repetition adds a musical quality to a speech, creating a rhythmic flow that engages the audience. This cadence can make the message more memorable and enjoyable.

Connection: Repetition helps to establish connections between different parts of a speech. It ties ideas together, creating a cohesive narrative that is easier for the audience to follow.

Persuasion: Through repetition, a speaker can subtly persuade the audience to adopt a particular viewpoint or take action. The consistent reinforcement of a message can influence attitudes and beliefs.

Practical Tips for Using Repetition Effectively:

Choose Key Points: Identify the core messages you want to convey, and strategically repeat key words or phrases associated with these points.

Consider Your Audience: Tailor your repetition to resonate with your audience. Understanding their preferences, values, and expectations will help you use repetition more effectively.

Vary Your Approach: While repetition is a powerful tool, overusing it can diminish its impact. Vary your repetition techniques to keep the audience engaged and interested.

Practice Pacing: The timing and pacing of repetition are crucial. Practice delivering your speech with the right rhythm to maximize its impact.

In the world of public speaking, the Repetition class is a formidable ally. When wielded with skill and precision, repetition can transform a speech into a compelling, memorable experience for both the speaker and the audience. By understanding the various forms of repetition and practising its implementation, speakers can elevate their communication skills and leave a lasting impression on those who listen.

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creacherkeeper · 5 years ago

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@astrophysiciann asked for some tips on a specific writing thing and i got kind of carried away because OH BOY DO I HAVE TIPS so it’s getting its own post

i have taken a buttload of writing classes, got accepted onto the creative writing track at the best writing school in the US, ran a writing blog, finished an english degree, read writing books ...

do you know what has taught me more about writing than anything else?

WRITING THINGS AND PAYING ATTENTION TO HOW IM WRITING IT

im serious. nothing is going to teach you how to write except writing. want to write a good novel? WRITE A LOT OF NOVELS. HOWEVER, i have picked up on things over the years that i am very frustrated dont really get taught in writing classes. writing classes are a bunch of “here go write this and i’ll give you a grade” but like. there ARE things you can do to be a better writer

vary sentence length. absolutely important. a lot of one length is going to start to sound boring to the readers internal voice. if you cant do this naturally, take note of how many words are in each sentence as youre writing. each paragraph should have a little variety, and your paragraphs should have different numbers of sentences in them. if youre writing an action scene, trend towards shorter sentences. in my writing i tend to do a lot of “medium length. long length. long length. very short”

finish on the important information. put the important word at the end of the sentence. it keeps the reader engaged because they want to know WHATS happening and why its important. leave it for the end (this is especially true for comedy)

adverbs aren’t bad but they really are easy to overuse. ask yourself each time “is there a better way to phrase this, and if not, does the adverb really add meaning to the sentence”. sometimes it absolutely does and thats great! a lot of times you can go without them. warning: taking the -ly off an adverb and just using the base word is valid! but your reader might interpret the speaker as uneducated and masculine, because that’s who typically does that verbally! (aka i took a linguistics & gender class and found out that i talk like an uneducated man!)

are you starting a bunch of sentences with the same word? that sounds repetitive. major problem of mine. challenge yourself not to use the same sentence starter in each paragraph, or start the paragraphs with the same word. vary it! its harder than it looks, but you can practice

try to pepper in repetition with motifs! in my last fic i used the phrases “in the early days” and “as was mentioned” a few times each. it just helps the reader feel like they’re reading a cohesive work. one of my FAVORITE literary things is when a line comes back and means something different with repeated uses. LITERATURE!

rhythm is important. read your writing out loud and pay attention to how the sentence flows. things i use a lot to establish a beat: anaphora (repeated phrases: he thought blank1. he thought blank2. he thought blank3), syndeton (using multiple conjunctions: blank and blank and blank), and asyndeton (no conjunctions: blank, blank, blank.)

dialogue tags are your friend. the reader should know who’s speaking. when we go a long time with no dialogue tags it’s easy to get confused. HOWEVER. some tips. “said” is your friend. said becomes invisible. they’re going to see their name and that’s it and that’s fine. if you use something else, it should be justified. ‘“i love you,” he said’ is neutral. ‘“i love you,” he growled’ VERY DIFFERENT. if youre using a different tag, it should be because it adds meaning to the sentence. NO WORD WASTED!

vary sentence structure. this includes dialogue!

“blank” he said

“blank” she said

“blank” he said

no!! boring!

“blank” he said

she did blank. “blank”

“blank,” he started. he did blank. “blank”

much more visually and audibly interesting! also - use actions with your dialogue! people move when they talk. a scratch on the neck might mean someone is embarrassed. your character might be nervous and fidgety. let people have body language!! and let them interact with their environment!

AS FOR LARGER PROJECTS

i personally LOVE using the three act structure! if you’re not familiar, it goes like this:

ACT 1

beginning (this is life in the BEFORE THE PLOT times)

INCITING INCIDENT (the plot is happening now! CALL TO ACTION)

door 1 (also called a “door of no return”. this is what pushes us into act 2 - what is this event that means the protagonist can never mentally or physically go back to how things were before?)

ACT 2

midpoint (this should be the characters LOWEST POINT. they might not succeed!! how terrifying & engaging!)

rising action! (stuffs afoot! the plot is gaining speed!)

door 2 (oh no! they can never go back again!)

ACT 3

climax! (everything is coming to fruition!! everything has been leading to this!)

falling action (this is our new world order)

there are variations on this, but this is the basic gist. if you’re struggling with the middle of your book, which a lot of writers do, think of the midpoint. think of your protagonist. what’s the worst thing that could happen to them? whats something they would never want? how are all their plans going to fail?

another thing you can do with your midpoint, or just your characters in general, is this:

what is one thing they would never do, and how are you going to justify making them do it?

this pretty much guarantees you a dynamic character, which i think is a trap beginning novelists (like myself, back in the day) can fall in to. your character needs to change--sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. if your character would swear up and down they’d never do one thing, OR if the reader THOUGHT they would never do one thing, what would that be? why are they now going to have to do it?

another tip for big projects - figure out what kind of writer you are. do you write for the big stuff or the small stuff?

some people are like “oh! i can’t wait for this big plot twist in act 2!” great! write everything to lead up to that plot twist

i personally am more of a “oh i want to include this one specific line of dialogue/this one emotional beat/this one piece of imagery somewhere but x y and z would have to happen in order to make it make sense” and then i write in x y and z!

basically, what are you EXCITED about in your story? write only for that

another thing is wasted space. you might think writing four scenes of worldbuilding is a good idea, but aside for those worldbuilding nerd junkies out there, it probably isnt. every scene should move along the plot or develop your character. preferably both at the same time! i know everyone loves to be like “WE WERE ROBBED” about cut scenes, but like. a lot of the time those scenes were cut because they weren’t moving things along, and it was RIGHT for those scenes to be cut. sorry guys. pacing and development is important

as far as motivation goes, find a HYPE MAN. or, even better, someone who is going to critically engage with your work. some people dont like to share their work until a full draft is written, but i need feedback as i go. find someone who’s going to tell you what they liked about it and what doesnt make sense in draft 1. these people are very important. too much criticism can kill a novel in the early stages. you need HYPE and a plot hole finder

okay!! it’s getting late and i have work in the morning so that is all my Hot Takes for now thank you for listening

#writing #writing tips #long post #IM SORRY IF THIS IS MORE THAN WHAT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR I GOT CARRIED AWAY #I REALLY LIKE TALKING ABOUT WRITING SORRY

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rainycloudh-blog · 6 years ago

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Dictionary of literary terms (A-U)

Alliteration:

The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words. It is what gives many a tongue twister its twist: How can a clam cram in a clean cream can.

Allusion:

An (in)direct reference to another text, e.g. the Bible

Anaphora:

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

Antagonist:

An antagonist is the opponent to the protagonist/main character.

Antithesis:

A rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed.

Bias:

A prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair.

Broadsheet:

A newspaper with a large format, traditionally regarded as more serious and less sensationalist than tabloids.

Byline:

A line at the top of an article giving the writer's name.

Caption:

A text that accompanies a photograph or illustration.

Character:

Character is the term used about the persons in a work of fiction. We distinguish between main characters (see below) and minor characters. In contrast to the main characters, who may be round and dynamic, the minor characters tend to be rather flat: they do not change or develop.

Chorus:

Part of a song that is repeated after each verse (= refrain in poetry)

Cliché:

A cliché is an idea or phrase that has been used so much that it does not have any meaning any more.

Climax:

The climax is the moment at which the conflict comes to its point of greatest intensity and is resolved. It is also the peak of emotional response from the reader.

Column:

a. A regular article on a particular subject or by a particular writer.

b. A vertical division of a page or a text.

Composition

Composition is the term used about the structure or organization of the events in a story – the elements of a text. A typical composition gives the events in chronological order, maybe with a flashback or two.

Dialogue:

Dialogue is a conversation between two or more characters in a piece of literature. It can be written as direct speech (with quotation marks and “he said”) or the conversation can be presented as indirect speech (reported speech), not using the exact words used by the characters.

Editorial:

A newspaper article expressing the editor's opinion on a topical issue.

Ellipsis:

Ellipsis is the term used when there is a significant jump in time to a later point in the story. The word refers to the fact that something has been left out.

Essay:

An essay is a composition giving the writer’s personal thoughts on or opinion of a particular subject or theme.

Ethos:

A form of appeal based on the speaker's character (e.g. reliability).

Exposition:

Exposition is a narrative technique that provides some background and informs the reader about the plot, character, setting, and theme of a story. In classical short stories, the exposition will be placed in the opening, but in modern short stories it may be placed anywhere – or even left out.

Figurative language:

Figurative language is often associated with poetry, but it actually appears quite often in prose as well. It describes things through metaphors and other figures of speech.

First-person narrator:

The first-person narrator uses an “I”, takes part in the story but has no direct access to the thoughts and feelings of the other characters. Be aware that the “I” can only see things from his/her own point of view, and this also limits the reader to that one perspective – can he/she be trusted? (See unreliable narrator.)

Flashback: Flashback is an entire scene which leaves the chronological narration for a while and jumps back in time from the point which the story has reached. The purpose of a flashback is to provide background for present events.

Flashforward:

Flashforward is an entire scene which leaves the chronological narration for a while and jumps forward in time from the point the story has reached. The opposite of flashback.

Foreshadowing:

Foreshadowing is hints or clues in a story that suggest what will happen later. Some authors use foreshadowing to create suspense or to convey information that helps readers understand what comes later.

Formal language:

Formal language is a style of writing that often uses fairly complex sentences and neutral, sometimes technical, words that tend to be more difficult/abstract than common everyday words. Formal language is often used in official public notices, business situations, and polite conversations with strangers.

Genre:

We say a poem, novel, short story, fairy tale, etc. belongs to a particular genre if it shares at least a few characteristics with other works in that genre.

Hero:

The hero is the central character around whom the events revolve and with whom the audience is intended to identify. If the hero is female, we may use the term heroine. If the hero (or heroine) has an opponent, the villain would often be the preferred term for him (or her). If the hero behaves in an unheroic way, we could talk about an anti-hero.

Informal language:

Informal language is a style of writing that uses everyday (spoken) language. It usually uses simple sentences and everyday words, sometimes slang and/or dialect.

Imagery:

Imagery is the use of vivid description, usually rich in words that appeal to the senses, to create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind.

In medias res:

In medias res is the term used when a story does not begin at the beginning, introducing the setting, the characters or the context of events, but instead opens “in the middle of things” (this is what the term means in Latin).

In retrospect:

Most stories are told in the past tense, thus indicating that they describe past events. But some stories - especially first-person narratives - make this much clearer than others, probably to remind the reader that the narrator is no longer the same; he or she is now older, maybe even wiser. The reader also understands, of course, that the events still mean something to the narrator. A story like this is told in retrospect, we say.

Interior monologue:

The written representation of a character's inner thoughts, impressions and memories as if the reader "overhears" them directly without the intervention of a narrator or another selecting and organizing mind.

Inverted pyramid:

The metaphor used in journalism to illustrate the placing of the most important information first.

Limited point of view:

A narrator with a limited point of view knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only from the outside. This is also called a restricted point of view.

Logos:

Appealing to the receiver's logic and reason.

Main character:

The main character is the central character around whom the events revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify.

Metaphor:

A direct comparison, used when you describe someone or something as if they were something else. If the comparison uses the words 'as' or 'like', it is called a simile: Human breath is like a dangerous weapon.

Narrator:

The narrator is the one who tells a story, the speaker or “the voice” of an oral or written work. Although it can happen, the narrator is rarely the same person as the author.

Novel:

A novel is a long and complex story, usually with several characters and many related events.

Omniscient narrator:

An omniscient narrator has a godlike perspective, seeing and knowing everything that happens, including what all the characters are thinking and feeling.

Onomatopoeia:

A term used about words that sound like the thing that they are describing. Animal sounds may be the best examples: quack, meow, croak, and roar!

Oxymoron:

A paradoxical antithesis with only two words: freshly frozen, deathly life.

Parallelism:

The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose which correspond in grammatical structure, sound, metre, meaning, etc. E.g. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I will learn.

Paraphrase:

When working with difficult and/or condensed texts - typically poetry (and Shakespeare's plays), it is a good idea to make a paraphrase of the text to clarify its meaning. To make a paraphrase, you "translate" somebody else's words into your own, thus making the text simpler but without losing its essential meaning. A paraphrase is written in prose and can be done line by line, stanza by stanza, or whatever suits the text and your purpose.

Pathos:

Appealing to the receiver's emotions.

Personification:

A figure of speech which gives human qualities to inanimate objects, animals and ideas. The wind can howl, cats can smile, and hope can die.

Plot (and story):

The plot of a story is the order in which the author has chosen to tell the events of a story. It may or may not be chronological. The chronological order in which those events would have happened is called story.

Point of view:

The position from which the events of a story are observed or considered is called point of view. The author must choose to present the story from either a neutral point of view, one person’s point of view, or the points of view of several characters. They can be participants in the events, or simply observers.

Protagonist:

Protagonist is another term for the central character around whom the events revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify. If the protagonist has an opponent, he/she would be called the antagonist.

Receiver:

In the communication model it is the general term used for the audience/listener/reader.

Refrain:

The part of a song of poem that is repeated, especially at the end of each verse (song) or stanza (poem).

Rhetoric:

The art of using language in a way that is effective or that influences people - rhetorical device.

Rhetorical question:

A question you answer yourself, or that needs no answer.

Rhyme:

When two words sound the same, especially at the end of each line.

Rhythm:

- or metre - a sequence of feet. A foot is a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables. The most common foot is an iamb: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in da-DUM.

Scene:

In prose fiction, a scene is one part of the story during which there is no change in time or place.

Second-person narrator:

The second-person narrator uses a “you” about the main characters and his/her actions. It will feel as if this type of narrator is addressing the reader, or as if the reader is a character in the story, which is quite weird, and therefore a second-person narrator is rarely seen.

Sender:

In the communication model it is the general term used for the speaker/writer.

Setting:

Setting refers to the time and place of a story. If the focus is on the conditions and/or values and norms of people at a particular time and place, we talk about milieu or social environment.

Short story:

Short story is the term used about a brief work of prose fiction which usually focuses on one incident, has a single plot, a single setting and few characters. It tends to provide little action, hardly any character development, but simply a snapshot of life.

Showing: Showing is a narrative technique in which a character’s feelings and mood etc. are expressed in an indirect way (through what the character says and/or does) so that the reader may create his/her own images and understanding.

Six Ws:

The six elements that must be covered in an article: What has happened to Who, Where and When, How and Why.

SOAPSTone:

Acronym for the elements you look at when analysing non-fiction: Speaker - Occasion - Audience - Purpose - Subject - Tone.

Sonnet:

A classical poetic form which has 14 lines, subdivided through its rhymes into two parts. The Petrarchan or Italian sonnet: I = 8 lines, an octave, rhyming abbaabba, and II = 6 lines, a sestet, rhyming cdcdcd (or cdecde). The metre is an iambic pentameter (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM). Shakespeare created his own version which has slightly different rhymes.

Standfirst:

An introductory paragraph in an article, separated from the body of the text, which summarizes the article.

Stanza:

The grouping of lines in a poem, like the 'paragraphs' of the poem.

Strapline:

An additional headline above or below the main headline.

Stream of consciousness:

In literature, stream of consciousness is a narrative technique in which a character’s thoughts and feelings are expressed as a continuous flowing series of images and ideas running through the mind, thus imitating the way humans think.

Symbol:

A symbol is an object, a person or an event that represents or stands for something else, usually a general quality or an abstract idea.

Tabloid:

A newspaper with small pages, traditionally popular in style and dominated by sensational stories, e.g. The Sun. Today, also some serious newspapers use the small size.

Telling:

Telling is a narrative technique in which the narrator tells the reader directly what characterizes the characters in a story – what they are like.

Theme:

Theme is the central idea, opinion or message that is expressed in the story. The heart and soul of the story.

Third-person narrator:

The third-person narrator uses “he”, “she” or (more rarely) “they”. This type of narrator provides the greatest flexibility to the author and is therefore the most commonly used narrator in literature. The third-person narrator’s point of view is what determines the type even more. If the point of view is from the outside, with no access to the thoughts and feelings of the characters, we call it an objective third-person narrator. If the narrator has access to one character’s thoughts and feelings, it is a limited (or restricted) third-person narrator. And finally, if the narrator has access to the thoughts and feelings of several characters, it is an omniscient third-person narrator.

Tricolon:

A list of three items, building to a climax, e.g. ... the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Turning point: A turning point is a point (usually an event) in a story where the plot takes a (sometimes unexpected) turn, and things change because of this. In long texts, there may be more than one turning point.

Unreliable narrator:

An unreliable narrator (usually a first-person narrator) gives his or her own understanding of a story, instead of the explanation and interpretation the author wishes the reader to obtain.

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thewordwideweb · 6 years ago

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Repeat after me...

I got an email from my friend Sir Walter the other day with an interesting question (Well, I thought it was interesting, anyway). Wally couldn’t remember the term for the literary device in which words are repeated for emphasis with very few words in between. The great example Wally gave was “Bond. James Bond.” (As a big fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I might have been more inclined to use “Dent, Arthur Dent” as my example).

The term for that kind of literary device is “diacope.” It comes from the Greek “thiakhopi,” which means “cut in two.”

I’m not sure if The Trammps knew they were using a diacope when they sang “Burn, baby, burn!” (Disco Inferno). But I’ll bet Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. knew what he was doing when he said “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we’re free at last!”

The most famous diacope is probably “To be, or not to be.” That wasn’t Shakespeare’s only diacope, though. He made excellent use of repetition, as in Richard III (“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”), Romeo and Juliet (“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?”) and Henry V (“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”).

Another famous Englishman had another famous diacope. In 1940, Winston Churchill rallied his nation against the threat of Nazism, saying “we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” Good stuff.

These days, the most memorable uses of diacope come from advertising agencies. “Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline.” “Home Depot: More saving. More doing.” “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” And even the immortal, “You’re not fully clean unless you’re Zestfully clean.”

And while we’re on the subject of literary devices that rely on repetition, there are a few special kinds. One is “epistrophe,” where the repeated word or phrase comes at the end of the sentence, like Abe Lincoln’s “government of the people, by the people, for the people.” When using “anaphora” the repetition is at the beginning. Think of the movie The Three Amigos: “Wherever there is injustice, you will find us. Wherever there is suffering, we’ll be there. Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find…the Three Amigos.”

And “epizeuxis” (dontcha just love that word?) is the term when a word or phrase is repeated with no other words in between, like: “Oh, the horror. The horror!” or Monty Python’s “Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam.” Or possibly even “Give me a break; give me a break. Break me off a piece of that Kit Kat bar.”

Okay, now I’m hungry. Hungry, hungry, hungry.

#Word of the day #words #language #writing #humor #diacope #epizeuxis #anaphora #epistrophe #shakespeare #james bond #arthur dent #disco inferno #winston churchill

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btwthemes · 6 years ago

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Rhetorical Devices in the Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy -BTW-

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Rhetorical Devices in the Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy -BTW-

It’s in accordance with Aristotle speaker or author has 3 ways to steer his viewers: The primary type is dependent upon the private character of the speaker; the second is on placing the viewers right into a sure mind set; the third is on the proof, or obvious proof, supplied by the phrases of the speech itself.

Some of the influential individuals who made a memorable speech for the previous century is President John F. Kennedy, a well-known public speaker who wrote an inaugural handle that incorporates an influence to steer lots of people.

His well-known speech reveals how his methodology of utilizing the artwork of persuasive written or spoken discourse (Rhetoric) that an writer or speaker makes use of to convey a that means to the listener or reader contributes to the aim or theme of his message for his countrymen.

Definition of Phrases:

1. Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of phrases which are shut to 1 one other.

2. Allusion: A quick or oblique reference to an individual, place, occasion, or passage in a piece of literature or the Bible assumed to be sufficiently well-known to be acknowledged by the reader.

three. Amplification: An enlargement of element to make clear a degree.

four. Analogy: A comparability between two issues by which the extra advanced is defined by way of the extra easy.

5. Anaphora: Repetition of a number of phrases on the head of consecutive phrases, clauses, or sentences.

6. Anastrophe: Inversion of phrase order to mark emphasis.

7. Antimetabole: Reverasal or repeated phrases or phrases for impact.

eight. Antithesis: Distinction inside parallel phrases (to not be confused with the atypical use of the phrase to imply “excessive reverse”).

9. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds between totally different consonants.

10. Asyndeton: Absence of conjunctions.

11. Chiasmus: The reversal of grammatical order from one phrase to the subsequent.

12. Climax: Consists of arranging phrases, clauses, or sentences within the order of accelerating significance, weight, or emphasis.

13. Conduplication: Resembles anadiplosis within the repetition of a previous phrase, nevertheless it repeats a key phrase (not simply the final phrase) from a previous phrase, clause, or sentence, in the beginning of the subsequent.

14. Consonance: Repetition of an identical consonant sounds inside two or extra phrases in shut proximity.

15. Ellipsis: Any omitted a part of speech that’s simply understood in context.

16. Ethos: Makes use of what an viewers values and believes to be good or true.

17. Hyperbole: Deliberate exaggeration as a way to create humor or emphasis.

18. Imagery: Energetic descriptions which impress the photographs of issues upon the thoughts utilizing a number of of the 5 senses.

19. Logos: interesting to cause in a measured, logical method.

20. Metanoia: The qualification of an announcement to both diminish or strengthen its tone.

21. Metaphor: That means or identification ascribed to 1 topic by means of one other.

22. Oxymoron: Contraditory phrases or concepts are mixed.

23. Parallelism: The strategy of arranging phrases, phrases, clauses, or bigger buildings by inserting them aspect by aspect and making them comparable in type.

24. Paradox: An announcement that appears to contradict itself however that seems to have a rational that means.

25. Pathos: Interesting to the feelings.

26. Personification: The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object.

27. Polysyndeton: Insertion of conjunctions earlier than every phrase in an inventory.

28. Repetition: Phrase or phrase used two or extra occasions in shut proximity.

29. Rhetorical Query: A query requested for rhethorical impact to emphasise a degree, no reply being anticipated.

30. Sententia: The punctuation of a degree with an aphorism.

31. Syntax: The grammatical construction of a sentence; the association of phrases in a sentence.

32. Tricolon: A collection of parallel phrases, phrases, clauses, or statements.

33. Zeugma: Contains a number of comparable rhetorical gadgets, all involving a grammatically right linkage (or yoking collectively) of two or extra components of speech by one other a part of speech.

Rhetorical Units That Are Current In The Inaugural Deal with of John F. Kennedy:

*Alliteration

• “similar solemn” (2nd sentence of the 2nd paragraph)

• “man holds in his mortal palms” (1st sentence of the third paragraph)

• “for which our forebears fought” (2nd sentence of third paragraph)

• “to pal and foe alike” (4th paragraph)

• “whether or not it needs us properly or sick” (fifth paragraph)

• “Pay any value, bear any burden… ” (fifth paragraph)

• “the survival and the success of liberty” (fifth paragraph)

• “devoted pals” (1st sentence of the seventh paragraph)

• “colonial management” (1st sentence of the eighth paragraph)

• “strongly supporting” (2nd sentence of the eighth paragraph)

• “break the bonds of mass distress” (ninth paragraph)

• “sovereign states” (11th paragraph)

• “its writ could run” (11th paragraph)

• “the darkish powers of destruction” (12th paragraph)

• “regular unfold” (14th paragraph)

• “sincerity is all the time topic” (15th paragraph)

• “peace preserved” (ninth to the final paragraph)

• “bear the burden” (sixth to the final paragraph)

• “a grand and world alliance” (fifth to the final paragraph)

• “excessive requirements of energy and sacrifice” (1st sentence of the final paragraph)

• “Allow us to go forth to guide the land we love… ” (2nd sentence of the final paragraph)

*Allusion

• “I’ve sworn earlier than you and Almighty God.” (2nd sentence of the 2nd paragraph)

• “those that foolishly sought energy by using the again of the tiger ended up inside” (final sentence of the eighth paragraph)

*Amplification

• “Let each side… Let each side… Let each side… Let each side (Paragraphs 16 to 19)

*Analogy

• “those that foolishly sought energy by using the again of the tiger ended up inside” (third sentence of the eighth paragraph)

*Anaphora

• “all types of human poverty and all types of human life” (1st sentence of the third paragraph)

• “not as a result of the communists could also be doing it, not as a result of we search their votes, however as a result of it’s proper” (1st sentence of the ninth paragraph)

• “To these outdated allies… To these new states… To these individuals… To our sister… To that world… to these nations… ” (Paragraphs 7 to 12)

• “We will not all the time look forward to finding them supporting our view. However we will all the time hope to seek out them strongly supporting their very own freedom” (2nd and third sentences of the eighth paragraph)

• “each side overburdened by the price of fashionable weapons, each rightly alarmed by the regular unfold of the lethal atom, but each racing to change that unsure stability of terror that stays the hand of mankind’s ultimate warfare” (14th paragraph)

• “Let each side… Let each side… Let each side… Let each side” (Paragraphs 16 to 19)

• “not as a name to bear arms, although arms we need–not as a name to battle, although embattled we are–but a name to bear the burden of a protracted twilight wrestle, yr in and yr out” (sixth to the final paragraph)

• “the primary 100 days. Nor will it’s completed within the first one thousand days, nor within the lifetime of this Administration, nor even maybe in our lifetime on this planet” (eighth to the final paragraph)

*Anastrophe

• “Dare not” (1st sentence of the 4th paragraph and 13th paragraph & third sentence of the seventh paragraph)

• “This a lot we pledge” (sixth paragraph)

• “Ask not” (26th paragraph)

*Antimetabole

• “Ask not what your nation can do for you–ask what you are able to do in your nation.” (third to the final paragraph)

• “Allow us to by no means negotiate out of worry. However allow us to by no means worry to barter.” (2nd sentence of the 15th paragraph)

*Antithesis

• “We observe as we speak not a victory of occasion however a celebration of freedom–symbolizing an finish in addition to a starting signifying renewal in addition to change. ” (1st sentence of the 2nd paragraph)

• “… not from the generosity of the state however from the hand of God.” (2nd sentence of the third paragraph)

• “Help any pal, oppose any foe… ” (fifth paragraph)

• “United there may be little we can’t do in a bunch of cooperative ventures. Divided there may be little we will do… ” (2nd sentence of the seventh paragraph)

• “Not as a result of… not as a result of… however as a result of… ” (1st sentence of the ninth paragraph)

• “Allow us to by no means negotiate out of worry, however allow us to by no means worry to barter.” (2nd sentence of the 15th paragraph)

• “Let each side discover what issues unite us as a substitute of belaboring these issues which divide us.” (16th paragraph)

• “not a brand new stability of energy, however a brand new world of regulation” (20th paragraph)

• “Not as a name to bear arms… not as a name to battle.. however a name to bear the burden… ” (23rd paragraph)

• “I don’t shrink from this responsibility–I welcome it.” (2nd sentence of the 25th paragraph)

• “… ask not what you nation can do for you, ask what you are able to do in your nation.” (26th paragraph)

• “ask not what America will do for you, however what collectively we will do for the liberty of man” (2nd to the final paragraph)

*Assonance

• “… the regular unfold of the lethal atom.” (14th paragraph)

*Asyndeton

• “We will pay any value, bear any burden, meet any hardship, help any pal, oppose any foe… ” (fifth paragraph)

• “discover the celebs, conquer the deserts, eradicate illness, faucet the ocean depths” (2nd sentence of the 18th paragraph)

• “The power, the religion, the devotion” (4th to the final paragraph)

*Chiasmus

• “Allow us to by no means negotiate out of worry. However allow us to by no means worry to barter.” (2nd sentence of the 15th paragraph)

• “ask not what your nation can do for you–ask what you are able to do in your nation” (third to the final paragraph)

*Climax

• “All this won’t be completed within the first 100 days. Nor will it’s completed within the first one thousand days, nor within the lifetime of this Administration, nor even maybe in our lifetime on this planet.” (eighth to the final paragraph)

*Conduplication

• “to assist them assist themselves” (1st sentence of the ninth paragraph)

• “good phrases into good deeds” (1st sentence of the 10th paragraph)

• “free males and free governments” (1st sentence of the 10th paragraph)

• “the devices of warfare have far outpaced the devices of peace” (11th paragraph)

• “absolute energy… absolute management… ” (17th paragraph)

*Consonance

• “Whether or not it needs us properly or sick, that we will… ” (fifth paragraph)

*Ellipsis

• “This a lot we pledge–and extra.” (sixth paragraph)

*Ethos

• “Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow residents: We observe as we speak not a victory of occasion however a celebration of freedom–symbolizing an finish in addition to a beginning–signifying renewal in addition to change.” (Paragraphs 1 & 2)

• “Within the lengthy historical past of the world, only some generations have been granted the function of defending freedom in its hour of most hazard. I don’t shrink from this responsibility–I welcome it.” (4th to the final paragraph)

• “With a very good conscience our solely certain reward, with historical past the ultimate choose of our deeds, allow us to go forth to guide the land we love, asking His blessing and His assist, however realizing that right here on earth God’s work should actually be our personal.” (final sentence of the final paragraph)

*Hyperbole

• “Let each nation know, whether or not it needs us properly or sick, that we will pay any value, bear any burden, meet any hardship, help any pal, oppose any foe to guarantee the survival and the success of liberty.” (fifth paragraph)

*Imagery

• “The torch has been handed to a brand new technology of People.” (4th paragraph)

*Logos

• “outdated allies whose cultural and non secular origins we share” (1st sentence of the seventh paragraph)

• “new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free” (1st sentence of the eighth paragraph)

• “individuals within the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to interrupt the bonds of mass distress” (1st sentence of the ninth paragraph)

• “that world meeting of sovereign states, the United Nations” (11th paragraph)

• “nations who would make themselves our adversary” (12th paragraph)

*Metanoia

• “Now the trumpet summons us again–not as a name to bear arms, although arms we need–not as a name to battle, although embattled we are–but a name to bear the burden of a protracted twilight wrestle, yr in and yr out, “rejoicing in hope, affected person in tribulation”–a wrestle towards the widespread enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, illness and warfare itself.” (sixth to the final paragraph)

*Metaphor

• “We’re the heirs of the primary revolution.” (1st sentence of the 4th paragraph)

• “Let the phrase go ahead from this time and place, to pal and foe alike, that the torch has been handed to a brand new technology of People… ” (2nd sentence of the 4th paragraph)

• “using the again of the tiger” (third sentence of the eighth paragraph)

• “the bonds of mass distress” (ninth paragraph)

• “the chains of poverty” (1st sentence of the 10th paragraph)

• “evolution of hope” (2nd sentence of the 10th paragraph)

• “grasp of its personal home” (final sentence of the 10th paragraph)

• “stability of terror” (14th paragraph)

• “And if a beachhead of cooperation could push again the jungle of suspicion… ” (20th paragraph)

• “The power, the religion, the devotion which we deliver to this endeavor will mild our nation and all who serve it–and the glow from that fireside can actually mild the world.” (4th to the final paragraph)

*Oxymoron

• “However this peaceable revolution.” (2nd sentence of the 10th paragraph)

*Parallelism

• “born on this century, tempered by warfare, disciplined by a tough and bitter peace, pleased with our historic heritage” (2nd sentence of the 4th paragraph)

• “Let each side discover what issues unite us… Let each side, for the primary time, formulate critical and exact proposals for the inspection and management of arms… Let each side search to invoke the wonders of science… Let each side unite… ” (Paragraphs 6 to 9)

• “United there may be little we can’t do in a bunch of cooperative ventures. Divided there may be little we will do… ” (2nd and third sentences of the seventh paragraph)

• “If a free society can’t assist the various who’re poor, it can’t save the few who’re wealthy.” (2nd sentence of the ninth paragraph)

• “adequate past doubt can we make sure past” (2nd sentence of the 13th paragraph)

*Paradox

• “Solely when our arms are adequate past doubt can we make sure past doubt that they’ll by no means be employed.” (2nd sentence of the 13th paragraph)

*Pathos

• “To these individuals within the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to interrupt the bonds of mass distress… ” (1st sentence of the ninth paragraph)

• “he graves of younger People who answered the decision toservice encompass the globe” (seventh to the final paragraph)

• ” The power, the religion, the devotion which we deliver to this endeavor will mild our nation and all who serve it–and the glow from that fireside can actually mild the world.” (4th to the final paragraph)

*Personification

• “With historical past the ultimate choose of our deeds” (2nd sentence of the final paragraph)

*Polysyndeton

• “the place the robust are simply and the weak safe and the peace preserved” (ninth to the final paragraph)

*Repetition

• “For man holds in his mortal palms the facility to abolish all types of human poverty and all types of human life.” (1st sentence of the third paragraph)

*Rhetorical Query

• “Can we forge towards these enemies a grand and world alliance, North and South, East and West, that may guarantee a extra fruitful life for all mankind? Will you take part that historic effort?” (fifth to the final paragraph)

*Sententia

• “undo the heavy burdens… (and) let the oppressed go free” (19th paragraph)

*Syntax

• “My fellow residents of the world: ask not what America will do for you, however what collectively we will do for the liberty of man.” (2nd to the final paragraph)

*Tricolon

*Zeugma

• “Now the trumpet summons us again–not as a name to bear arms, although arms we need–not as a name to battle, although embattled we are–but a name to bear the burden… ” (sixth to the final paragraph)

Encapsulation of Findings:

John F. Kennedy used 33 various kinds of rhetorical gadgets in his inaugural speech. Essentially the most dominant rhetorical machine that he used was the utilization of alliteration.

Conclusion:

Via in depth evaluation, it may be seen that it’s evident that he has a purpose of getting the viewers’s consideration to pay attention and to know his factors in a significant method within the fields of writing and talking.

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1.Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.

Example: Fresh fern fronds from the forest

2.Allusion is a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words, thus making an indirect reference.

Example: Describing someone as an “Adonis” makes an allusion to the handsome young shepherd loved by the goddess of love and beauty herself in the Greek myths.

3.Anaphora is a stylistic device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses to give emphasis.

Example: You are lovely, you are gorgeous, you are pretty, you are glorious, you are, you are, you just are!

4.Anticlimax refers to a figure of speech in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance.

Examples: He got his dignity, his job, and his company car.

In the car crash, she lost her life, her car, and her cell phone.

5.Antiphrasis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect.

Example: She is 65 year young.

6.Antithesis is a figure of speech that refers to the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas. It involves the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences within a parallel grammatical structure.

Example: To many choices, too little time.

7.Apostrophe is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech in which a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea.

Example: Oh, moon! You have seen everything!

8.Assonance is a figure of speech that refers to the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Example: A certain purple curtain, captain. (note: cer in cetain, pur in purple, and cur in curtain. Also tain in certain, curtain, and captain.)

9.Climax refers to the figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.

Example: Three things will remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

10.Euphemism is a figure of speech used to express a mild, indirect, or vague term to substitute for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term.

Example: saying “passed away” for “died”

Saying “in between jobs” to mean “unemployed”

11.Epigram refers to a concise, witty, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

Example: Oscar Wilde’s “I can resist everything but temptation,” or “I am not young enough to know everything.”

12.Epiphora (or epistrophe) is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the end of neighboring clauses to give them emphasis.

Example: “…a government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Note: The phrase the people is repeated twice after it was first mentioned.)

13.Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to created emphasis or effect; it is not meant to be taken literally.

Example: I told you a million times to clean your room.

14.Irony is a figure of speech in which there is a contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is really meant. It is characterized by an incongruity, a contrast, between reality and appearance.

Example: The explanation is as clear as mud.

15.Litotes is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.

Example: Instead of saying that someone is “ugly” you can say that someone is “not very pretty.”

Instead of saying that the situation is “bad” you can say that it is “not good”.

16.Merism is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits.

Example: saying “young and old” to refer to the whole population

Saying “flesh and bone” to mean the whole body

17.Metaphor s a figure of speech that makes an implicit , implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them.

Example: The planet is my playground. The Lord is my shepherd.

18.Metonymy is a figure pf speech in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with the thing or concept.

Examples: Using “Malacaňang” to refer to the president or the government

Saying “a hand” to mean “help”

19.Oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines incongruous or contradictory terms.

Examples: open secret, virtual reality, sacred profanities

20.Personification is a figure of speech in which a human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object.

Example: Red punctuates and makes bold statements, says something, and means it like an exclamation point!

21.Simile is a figure of speech directly comparing two unlike things, often introduced the word, like or as.

Examples: A smile as big as the sun. She prays like a mantis.

22.Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole of something is used to represent part of it.

Examples: Sixty hands voted. (The part “hand” is used to refer to the whole person)

The country supported the president. (The word “country” is used to refer to the people.)

23.Understatement is a figure of speech used by its writers or speakers to deliberately make a situation seem less important or serious that it really is.

Examples: A nurse to give an injection saying, “It will sting a bit.”

To describe a disappointing experience, a participant may say, “It was …different.”

LITREADITURE!

Look for literary pieces and take note some lines in it that expresses figures of speech listed below. Write your answers on the space provided. (One example for each)

1.ALLUSION:“Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.

2.ANAPHORA: Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

3.EUPHEMISM: Antony and Cleopatra (By William Shakespeare), “Royal wench!

She made great Caesar lay his sword to bed.

He plowed her, and she cropped.”

4.EPIGRAM:

“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put and end to mankind.” – John F. Kennedy.

5.LITOTE: A Tale of a Tub (By Jonathan Swift)

“I am not unaware how the productions of the Grub Street brotherhood have of late years fallen under many prejudices.”

6.METONYMY: “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” (Abraham Lincoln).

7.OXYMORON: “You can’t have more types of fake news than real news.” (Elon Musk)

8.MERISM: "There is a working class—strong and happy—among both rich and poor; there is an idle class—weak, wicked, and miserable—among both rich and poor." (John Ruskin, The Crown of Wild Olive, 1866)

9.ANTITHESIS: Community (By John Donne), “Good we must love, and must hate ill,

For ill is ill, and good good still;

But there are things indifferent,

Which we may neither hate, nor love,

But one, and then another prove,

10.IRONY:The Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum): the characters already have what they are asking for from the wizard

Journal Entry #2

What’s the language of the piece?

Read a literary piece (prose or poetry). Review and examine the language used by the author (Tone, Diction, Style and Figures of Speech). Include photographs to add creativity and visuals in your writing. Your answers must not be less than ten sentences.

Friendship

By : Vener Santos

The poetry that I have chosen is "Friendship" by Vener Santos a Filipino Author his poem "Friendship" is not an ordinary poem about having a friend. This poem talks about Filipinos,in particular. Vener Santos made this poem to all Filipinos to understand what friendship is all about and what Friendship brings to our lives. The diction being used is formal because the words are all written correctly and formally. The tone of the poetry is that the writer is looking forward that everything will grow old but friendship will always remain fresh in our mind and our hearts. The figure of speech used for me is Repitition because of the repeating words to relay a message to a friend and to someone whom you love. This poetry's lesson is we should treasure the friendship we have, death will separate it on earth, but it will reborn in heaven.

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alannalowis123 · 4 years ago

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LANGUAGE OF CREATIVE WRITING/ JOURNAL 2

LITREADITURE!

Look for literary pieces and take note some lines in it that expresses figures of speech listed below. Write your answers on the space provided. (One example for each)

1.ALLUSION:

“Heart of Darkness”

"The two knitting women increase his anxiety by gazing at him and all the other sailors with knowing unconcern. Their eerie looks suggest that they know what will happen (the men dying), yet don’t care”

-Joseph Condrad

2.ANAPHORA:

A Tale of Two Cities

" It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

- Charles Dickens

3.EUPHEMISM:

Antony and Cleopatra

“Royal wench! She made great caesar lay his sword to bed He plowed her and she chopped".

-William Shakespeare

4.EPIGRAM:

Auguries of Innocence

"To see a world in a grain of sand,

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.”

-William Blake

5.LITOTES:

The Great Gatsby

I lived at West Egg, the — well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.METONYMY:

All’s Well that Ends Well

I know a man that had this trick of melancholy sold a goodly manor for a song.

-William Shakespeare

7.OXYMORON

As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible

-Wilfred Owen

8.MERISM:

The Crown of Wild Olive

There is a working class—strong and happy—among both rich and poor; there is an idle class—weak, wicked, and miserable—among both rich and poor."

-John Ruskin

9.ANTITHESIS

Paradise Lost

“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav’n.”

-John Milton

10.IRONY:

-William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

- "O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."

Journal Entry #2

What’s the language of the piece?

Paste a photo to represent the Literary piece

The School

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By Donald Barthelme

The poetry that I've chosen is "The school by Donald Barthelme. The School" is a dark comedic fable that makes the reader not just laugh, but think about contradictions and the wrong customs of our society. The entire story happens in one small second grade classroom in elementary school. A running theme of death occurs to allow a window to the purpose of life. Beginning with mentioning the dead trees, the tragic pattern of death continues throughout the short story until a noticeable shift occurs. The narrator’s assumable students begin asking questions in an effort to understand what life is, thereby drawing attention off of the death and onto life. Barthelme effectively creates an odd meaning to life with this unending cycle of death.

The narrator's calm tone adds up to this theme because it never rises to a high pitch, and this monotonous way of telling the story actually makes it funnier in my opinion. There are also words like "death" and "depressing" to set a negative or unhappy tone. The diction being used is formal because the words are all formally written. The figure of speech that is being used is the personification. The children are described as laughing “like hell” which is also a hyperbole, exaggerating how hard the children were laughing. And anaphora because there's a repetition of a word at the beginning of a phrase in the story.

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ASYNCHRONOUS TASK NO. 3

ACTIVITY 1:

this page by putting an arrow to the object/s. [No need to indicate what type of Figures of Speech they are]

Notes: Most Commonly Used Figure of Speech

1. Alliteration is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.

Example: Fresh fern fronds from the forest

2. Allusion is a figure of speech that quickly stimulates different ideas and associations using only a couple of words, thus making an indirect reference.

Example: Describing someone as an “Adonis” makes an allusion to the handsome young shepherd loved by the goddess of love and beauty herself in the Greek myths.

3. Anaphora is a stylistic device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses to give emphasis.

Example: You are lovely, you are gorgeous, you are pretty, you are glorious, you are, you are, you just are!

4. Anticlimax refers to a figure of speech in which a word is repeated and whose meaning changes in the second instance.

Examples: He got his dignity, his job, and his company car.

In the car crash, she lost her life, her car, and her cell phone.

5. Antiphrasis is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used to mean the opposite of its normal meaning to create ironic humorous effect.

Example: She is 65 year young.

6. Antithesis is a figure of speech that refers to the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas. It involves the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences within a parallel grammatical structure.

Example: To many choices, too little time.

7. Apostrophe is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech in which a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea.

Example: Oh, moon! You have seen everything!

8. Assonance is a figure of speech that refers to the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Example: A certain purple curtain, captain. (note: cer in cetain, pur in purple, and cur in curtain. Also tain in certain, curtain, and captain.)

9. Climax refers to the figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.

Example: Three things will remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

10. Euphemism is a figure of speech used to express a mild, indirect, or vague term to substitute for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term.

Example: saying “passed away” for “died”

Saying “in between jobs” to mean “unemployed”

11. Epigram refers to a concise, witty, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

Example: Oscar Wilde’s “I can resist everything but temptation,” or “I am not young enough to know everything.”

12. Epiphora (or epistrophe) is a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the end of neighboring clauses to give them emphasis.

Example: “…a government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Note: The phrase the people is repeated twice after it was first mentioned.)

13. Hyperbole is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to created emphasis or effect; it is not meant to be taken literally.

Example: I told you a million times to clean your room.

14. Irony is a figure of speech in which there is a contradiction of expectation between what is said and what is really meant. It is characterized by an incongruity, a contrast, between reality and appearance.

Example: The explanation is as clear as mud.

15. Litotes is a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.

Example: Instead of saying that someone is “ugly” you can say that someone is “not very pretty.”

Instead of saying that the situation is “bad” you can say that it is “not good”.

16. Merism is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that enumerates several of its constituents or traits.

Example: saying “young and old” to refer to the whole population

Saying “flesh and bone” to mean the whole body

17. Metaphor s a figure of speech that makes an implicit , implied or hidden comparison between two things or objects that are poles apart from each other but have some characteristics common between them.

Example: The planet is my playground. The Lord is my shepherd.

18. Metonymy is a figure pf speech in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with the thing or concept.

Examples: Using “Malacaňang” to refer to the president or the government

Saying “a hand” to mean “help”

19. Oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines incongruous or contradictory terms.

Examples: open secret, virtual reality, sacred profanities

20. Personification is a figure of speech in which a human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object.

Example: Red punctuates and makes bold statements, says something, and means it like an exclamation point!

21. Simile is a figure of speech directly comparing two unlike things, often introduced the word, like or as.

Examples: A smile as big as the sun. She prays like a mantis.

22. Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole of something is used to represent part of it.

Examples: Sixty hands voted. (The part “hand” is used to refer to the whole person)

The country supported the president. (The word “country” is used to refer to the people.)

23. Understatement is a figure of speech used by its writers or speakers to deliberately make a situation seem less important or serious that it really is.

Examples: A nurse to give an injection saying, “It will sting a bit.”

To describe a disappointing experience, a participant may say, “It was …different.”

ACTIVITY 2:

LITREADITURE!

Look for literary pieces and take note some lines in it that expresses figures of speech listed below. Write your answers on the space provided. (One example for each)

1.ALLUSION: The Outsiders (1967) by S. E. Hinton

"Ponyboy."

I barely heard him. I came closer and leaned over to hear what he was going to say.

"Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold ... " The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.

2.ANAPHORA: "London," William Blake

In every cry of every Man,

In every infant's cry of fear,

In every voice, in every ban,

The mind-forg'd manacles I hear

3.EUPHEMISM:Dropping the Euphemism, Bob Hicok

When I said

I have to lay you off

a parallel universe was born

in his face, one where flesh

is a loose shirt

taken to the river and beaten

against the rocks. Just

by opening my mouth I destroyed

his faith.

4.EPIGRAM: Sonnet 76 (By William Shakespeare)

“So all my best is dressing old words new,

Spending again what is already spent:

For as the sun is daily new and old,

So is my love still telling what is told.”

5.LITOTES: Fire and Ice (By Robert Frost)

“Some say the world will end in fire,

Some say in ice.

From what I’ve tasted of desire

I hold with those who favor fire.

But if I had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate

To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice.”

6.METONYMY: Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville)

As I afterwards learned, the poor scrivener, when told that he must be conducted to the Tombs, offered not the slightest obstacle, but in his pale, unmoving way, silently acquiesced.

7.OXYMORON: Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)

Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,

That I shall say good night till it be morrow.

9.ANTITHESIS: Community (By John Donne)

“Good we must love, and must hate ill,

For ill is ill, and good good still;

But there are things indifferent,

Which we may neither hate, nor love,

But one, and then another prove,

As we shall find our fancy bent.”

10.IRONY: The Necklace (Guy de Maupassant)

“You say that you bought a necklace of diamonds to replace mine?”

“Yes. You never noticed it, then! They were very like.”

And she smiled with a joy which was proud and naïve at once.

Mme. Forestier, strongly moved, took her two hands.

“Oh, my poor Mathilde! Why, my necklace was paste. It was worth at most five hundred francs!”

JOURNAL WRITING:

Journal Entry #2

What’s the language of the piece?

To an Athlete Dying Young

Title

A. E. Housman

Author

A. E. Housman has also include literary devices in his poem in tittled " To an athlete dying young" to express and share his feelings towards the athlete. The literary devices used are: Personification, Assonance, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Consonance, Symbolism, and Enjambment.

The poem or him shows the run or the cycle of how a man's life goes. The first stanza shows how people (close one) gets happy, great, and proud seeing us fighting to live and achieve our goals. But nothing last forever, time will come and all of these will stop. And all of those who really know, support, and been there for us will also be the one who will march our dead body towards our grave. Even our glory, dreams, achievements, and hardwork will be gone. It stated there that our lives is like how fast a single roses losses its own petals. Our eyes will forever be close it will be dark as a night and there will never be any color. Whole body will be numb nothing to hear, nothing to fell. And only those close ones will remember our name and our deeds. Life is a competition and we should keep running 'til everything stops. Everything has its ending point. It has no exemption and that everyone includes our life.

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greysnavalesgatilago · 4 years ago

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Blog no. 3

Hundreds of holes

Heavy plate carried alone

Crying bird

Giant cheese

Heavy brain

Nail on the Head

A million of eggs in one basket

An ocean of food in one plate

Time flies so fast

Heart was played like a card

Silver words came out from his mouth

Eyes filled with emotion

A waterfall beans

Ear Tied

Time is Gold

I had the cat by the tail

Fish out of the water

It’s raining cats in the city that’s why I got one

His walk was as noisy as a fallen metal can

Walking on pins and needles

Finding shadows

Cherry in a piece of cake

Heel to the ground

Walking with a pointed toe

Drag feet one’s

Broken leg by suffering

Chasing Grace