#like blunt or concise like Yes or No or the obvious and what everyone knows

[the-acid-pear]

Okay I'm home so allow me to elaborate

First and foremost: my therapist is so nasty y'all OMFGGGG 😭😭😭 i was mentioning Patrick Bateman bc of course i was (I'm so close to admitting to kin the guy i swear 💀) but also bc i was talking about my essay and she was like "ugh i deal with so many guys like that daily" and then proceeded to talk about one guy that fucking Kubrick stared her the whole session and then SHOWED ME A FUCKIG DRAWING HE DID??? Y'KNOW OF THE PERSON UNDER THE RAIN and like fair yeah it was pretty disturbing lmao never saw anything like that, he drew a woman running w an umbrella and the lines were so shaky and violent 💀 BUT GIRL YOU CAN'T SHOW ME THIS NO MATTER HOW EVIL YOUR MAN WAS EMERHRNRVDMDGR 😭😭😭

Okay but that hilarious thing aside; y'all know I'm a pretty rational guy, right? Like y'all know me I'm super rational and specific and to soothe myself at night i think of snake (game) patters and how to complete them effectively. That last i never mentioned before and now that i say it i realize it's pretty weird but the point is I'm a very rational and structured guy who is fucking nuts (did you know I'm utterly insane? 🧑) but is grounded in reality just about enough.

WELL TURNS OUT I KINDA AM NOT. ??? LIKE i was telling her how a lot of the time I'm fucking scared to move around in my own house and how it was paralyzing and a bunch of things i won't repeat and she was like "hmm those are actually obsessive thoughts, intrusive even" and a bunch of other talking but it just. Made me realize all the rules i thought as true so i never rationalized might have not been fucking true but me being Utterly Insane 🧑 ???????

Like this is something I've done since I'm a kid, to set imaginary rules that mean the world to me. Never thought it was serious bc most of the time i kind of twisted them to my convenience if needed, but there's many others that i can, and it just makes so much fucking sense but that's also so crazy?????

Like like i just cannot stress enough how crushing it is for a guy like me, a rational and clever™ and so thoughtful guy, to realize a lot of the truths are not truths and completely made up. Shit I've believed for years shit i was convinced about and now i. I cannot trust that shit anymore!!!!!!!!

For good, of course, maybe now i won't be so irrationally scared of moving around my house, or doing something in a different order or whatnot. But it just. Like we didn't talk about a diagnosis this could be just a standalone shit and i would be so ok w that but i never thought these... Obsessive thoughts and routines would be like that. I always imagined them to be so obvious and clear and specific. Not just irrational fears and made up rules . And it's . I. ITS CRAZY BRO!;!;!!!!!

Like i literally joke all the time about living in utter fear and this, might be fucking why????? BecauE i just convinced me of it, i convinced myself that everything is Bad and Scary and i need to behave on certain ways and if i don't do the certain. Thing something bad will happen and . I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT BC AGAIN IM A THINKING RATIONAL GUY™ HOW TF DID I JUST LET THIS SLIP AND GET TO THIS POINT ITS SO CRAZY LIKE RNDBBFFBSGANSVT 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

LIKE FUCK GIRL NOW IMMA START QUESTIONING EVERY LITTLE THING I DO WTFFFFF 😰😰😰😰

Last therapy session left .y wod crumbling to pieces um gonna cry omfg

[favouriteentertainer-blog]

Chapter 2 - Imma Show You a Thing or Two

“I’ve done this before, not like this.”

Chapter 1 

My feet were aching, and I needed coffee. I so badly wanted to step into two beans where I knew Zayn worked, but I couldn’t—I couldn’t allow myself to fall down the big, beautiful boy shaped rabbit hole.

I’d just finished my 8am environmental communications class and I was absolutely knackered. My sleeping schedule was coming back to bite me in the ass.

I decided to push through it for the better and made the effort to walk an extra 15 minutes. I really bloody wanted the coffee.

Penny Lane was nice, the coffee was good too, better than two beans—in fact, the only reason I didn’t go there more often was because it was further away and because Dan hadn’t always wanted to walk. My new-found independence meant that I could do whatever I wanted—leg ache or not.

A small bell above the door chimed as I entered, I pulled my beanie off and tried to shove it into my tote bag—I sighed heavily as the handles tangled causing me to drop the hat.

“Oh here—“ someone picked it up for me.

“Thanks—“ I said in a huff as I cursed the handles on the scraggly bag. It needed to be thrown out, but it’d been given to me as a gift by my friend Lily and I didn’t want it to go to waste. I grabbed the hat from the stranger and finally shoved it into my bag. When they didn’t bother to move I actually took the time to look at who was standing in front of me.

“Hi.” Zayn smirked.

I almost choked on my saliva. “Hi.”

“Not at two beans today?” He chuckled lightly, pushing up the sleeves of his black sweater in the process.

“Neither are you.” We were both stating the obvious.

“Oh Jheeze really?” He said sarcastically as he looked around the room.

“Are you trying to be funny?” I was scowling but I really wanted to smile. ‘Stop it.’ I reprimanded myself—I needed to remember that I was supposed to be sad.

“Yeah maybe,” he still had a stupid grin plastered on his face.

“Okay well,” I walked past him, “I need a coffee, so go annoy someone else yeah?” I was trying to assert my ‘I don’t care about you attitude,’ but I wasn’t sure it was working.

“You’re the one who got here after me.” He rolled his eyes, “why are you even here?” He was following me to the counter.

“I was trying to avoid you!” I blurted it out.

“What?” He stopped walking.

“I was embarrassed about what happened the other day—“ I had to think quickly and thankfully my brain came up with a plausible excuse. “I didn’t want you bringing it up.” I hoped and prayed that my lie was enough for the behavioural science major.

“Oh, why would I do that?” He frowned.

I ignored him for a second, “hiya—“ I smiled at the girl working the counter, “could I please get a medium long black.” She noted my order down on a cup and I handed her the money. “I dunno,” I turned back to Zayn, “people usually like to harp on other’s misfortunes when they find it funny.”

“I didn’t find it funny.” He said curtly.

“Oh—“ my cheeks were burning up, “well I just thought—“

“You thought wrong.” He corrected me.

I wanted to tell him that I didn’t think badly of him, I just didn’t want to see him because I was scared I wouldn’t stop thinking about him for the rest of the night.

“Here you go!” The barista handed me my coffee over the machine.

“Thank you!” I smiled.

I walked towards a table and Zayn walked towards the door. “Where are you goin?!” I called out. I mentally slapped myself—I had no idea why I’d done that.

“Home?” He responded, as if it weren’t clear.

“Obviously—“ I scoffed, “but we were having a conversation, come back.” I was really calling him back and for no good reason other than the fact that I just wanted to spend time with him.

“You’re so strange.” He pulled out the chair across from me as sat down. “I don’t even know your name.”

“Wait, didn’t I tell you the other day?” I could’ve sworn that I did.

“You did not.” He spoke concisely.

“It’s Kali.” When I was younger my name embarrassed me, I hated it—a foreign name just didn’t sit well with anyone I knew; friends, teachers and even neighbours. It was hard for me to adjust to being different, I resented my Asian background. I woke up every day wishing I was white and that’s why I let pretty much everyone in my life call me K, it just worked better for them—even Dan.

“Kali,” he repeated, “the Goddess of destruction.”

“I’m not as powerful as my name.” I smiled. My heart was beating so fast and for what? All because he knew the meaning behind my name. Of course, he did, I reminded myself—he was probably from some sort of Asian background too. “You can just call me K though, probably easier.”

“What?” He screwed up his face, “there’s nothing hard about your name at all.”

“Most people find it too ethnic.” I shrugged.

“I’m literally brown, if I have a problem with your name that is a problem” he laughed.

I couldn’t help but smile, “yeah that’d be fucking weird.” I awkwardly took a sip of my coffee—the two of us maintaining eye contact. “So why didn’t you go get coffee from your actual workplace?” I questioned.

“It’s shit.” He answered me as he reached for his phone. He quickly checked the time before sighing—“I have to go, my shift starts in 20 minutes.”

I didn’t want to look sad, but I was pretty sure it was written all over my face. “Yeah of course.” I smiled, “sorry about being a bitch before.”

“It is what it is.” He got up, “we can all be a bit bitchy sometimes.”

I laughed lightly, “see you around.”

“See ya.” He winked before turning away and heading off.

My heart felt empty and I had to remind myself that I couldn’t and shouldn’t be feeling the way I did.

—

“Do you think I’m going crazy.” I was laying on the couch.

“No.” Hailee had just finished work, I missed her when she wasn’t in the apartment. She was both my flatmate and one of my best friends—therefore the fact that I hadn’t seen her for two whole days was terrible. “If you didn’t love him anymore why would you be sad? Especially because now that you’re reflecting you’re seeing how toxic he was.”

“You’re so right.” I agreed, “BUT I FEEL BAD!” I couldn’t help but feel a weird sensation of pity.

“There’s nothing to feel guilty about,” she reassured me, “if anything you should be praising yourself for doing the right thing and not leading him on anymore.”

“Again, you’re right.” She was making some points but it didn’t mean I was feeling any better.

“Stop beating yourself up, we’re all human.” She got up from the couch and walked towards the kitchen “would you like a cup of tea?”

“Yes pleaassseeeeee,” tea wasn’t going to absolve the guilt, but it sure was going to make me feel better. “You know how I like it.”

“Coming right up!” She said, flicking the switch on the kettle. “Do you have class tomorrow?” She was rumbling through the cupboard for a snack.

“Nope,” I yawned, “it’s my day off tomorrow.”

“I was thinking we could go to the museum before I head off to work?”

“If I wake up early enough then yes.” I was still dreadfully tired and I knew for a fact that I’d pass out as soon as I hit the pillow, and I was definitely going to be asleep for 10 hours. Making no promises was therefore the obvious choice.

“Hails.” I spoke warily as I adjusted my Captain America pyjama shorts.

“Mhm?” She hummed in response as she set my cup of tea down in front of me.

“Thank you,” I picked it up and took a sip. “There’s one more problem.” I could tell her about Zayn because she was my empathetic best friend, she and AJ were polar opposites. Hailee was kind and caring, whereas AJ was blunt and truthful.

“What’s that?” She questioned, raising her eyebrows in concern.

“I can’t stop thinking about this guy—I met him AFTER I broke up with Dan.” I clarified just in case she got the wrong impression.

“Keep going.” She motioned for me to tell her more.

“His name is Zayn and he works at two beans, he’s a behavioural science major—absolutely gorgeous, so gorgeous. I’ve only seen him twice, but after both encounters I haven’t been able to stop thinking about him. Hails, everything about him just seems right!” I slapped my hands to my face and let out a groan of disgust. “That’s why I feel so guilty.”

“Stop feeling guilty!” She shouted at me, “You are human!!!!” She repeated what she’d told me before.

“But surely this isn’t right? Surely I should be feeling more remorseful?”

“K, you are completely fine. There’s nothing wrong with a little post-breakup crush. Who even said anything was going to happen huh?” She lay across the sofa and tried to sip on her tea, but it dripped down her chest.

“Here” I said handing her the roll of paper towel. She was right for the millionth time. Just because I thought Zayn was gorgeous and absolutely hilarious did not mean we were going to fuck.

“I just don’t understand why you overthink shit so much. You’re so much better than you realise, you need to give yourself more credit.” She wiped the tea off her chest and sat up.

“Yeah,” I sighed, “maybe one day I will.”

[liskantope]

A response to Aella’s essay “The Responsibility Narrative”

I initially planned to quickly link to this piece @aellagirl put up a few days ago just to highlight it as a piece of writing containing ideas that I’ve tried to express for a while (longer-time followers know that the whole agency/responsibility topic is right up my alley) and to thank her for expressing them so much more elegantly and from a much more powerful point of view. Then I noticed a bunch of points I wanted to pick apart a bit (while I overall really like this post there are some places where I think she goes a bit further than I do or just want to respond to in other ways). Also, it seems that she turned comments off for that post or something, so I guess this post is my way of dropping a (very long and slightly erratic) comment under hers while at the same time linking my Tumblr followers to her piece and providing a response.

I’ll start by saying that I really envy the author’s writing skills, in the sense that Aella seems to have an uncanny ability to put forth highly controversial theses that many would take offense to in an eloquent, concise, and direct manner (I might even go as far as to say “blunt”), and yet manages to do this in a way that facilitates in the audience opening one’s mind and listening rather than taking offense or feeling attacked. This is something I’ve noticed for a long time in her writing. An example is her piece on monogamists rejecting polyamory out of fear, where her thesis is one that I strongly disagree with and may well have responded to with resentment if it had been displayed by any other writer. I wish I knew how to emulate this. From time to time I argue positions that are controversial and potentially threatening or angering to some, but in my writing there’s all this hemming and hawing and insertions of softening qualifications and so on which can often make those essays look like sloppy messes by comparison in which my central point is nearly lost amid all the carefulness.

As for the actual content, first of all, I’m always happy to see someone else writing things like this:

Responsibility is weird. Ultimately there’s no free will and agency is a trick of the light, but we seem to have particular rules for when and where we throw responsibility at something. Sometimes we throw responsibility at the environment, and sometimes at the person.

...and I’m especially happy to see this (as most people in my vicinity have seemed to shy away from describing the Left vs. Right divide in this way or agreeing with me when I did):

Responsibility placement seems to occur along political divides, too. Conservatives see everyone holding their own glowing ball of responsibility, while liberals see the responsibility in the environment and the cruel, unchangeable past.

Aella’s views on how we assign free will (or responsibility, which after all is treated by most as equivalent to free will) in practice is the same view as mine and seems to be pretty much the universally-agreed-upon way forward on the pragmatic side, at least judging from the (admittedly very limited) set of people whose writing on that question I’ve read. I wish there were a way to translate that pragmatic solution to a metaphysical one that we could all agree on -- I think my solution is to say that “free will” is just a word that we have no choice but to define according to the pragmatic solution because any attempts at a more “cosmic” definition are in fact meaningless. Perhaps Aella would differ by emphasizing the term “responsibility” in place of where I used “free will” in the sentence above, as after all she does call free will nonexistent and agency “a trick of the light” -- that view seems equivalent to mine for pretty much all means and purposes, though.

And as for “if someone is very lazy, shouting at them to be less lazy sometimes works”, well yes, although a key word there is “sometimes”.

Then we get to the much more controversial thesis of the essay, which is initially presented with “In my old society, men were formally and strongly given the glowing ball of responsibility... [which] sucked bad enough that I don’t think being a woman was worse than being a man.” On first reading, I’m pretty sure I misread that last bit to instead say, “I don’t think being a woman was as bad as being a man”. When just now I read the phrase correctly, my eyebrows didn’t raise quite as high as before, but they’re still raised a little bit. Because while I’m really glad that the author is presenting this alternative view and wish more people could be exposed to it and take it seriously, I still lean fairly strongly towards believing that on the whole it was still better to be a man.

(In this and what follows, I do want to point out that the author is considerably more qualified than I am to speculate on such things given her experience as a woman who actually grew up imprisoned in an ultra-conservative community; however, let me offer my own speculation based on my general impression of how humans react to power and responsibility.)

The author comes across to me as emphasizing the seductiveness of believing that fault lies not in oneself but in the environment while seeming to ignore the potentially negative effects of such a belief, or equivalently, the benefits of feeling a sense of personal responsibility. Yes, the essay highlights the (very obvious) benefits of having power, thus drawing a rough equivalence between the benefits of power and the benefits of not being assigned responsibility in a society where men hold most of the power and most of the responsibility, but I’m talking about how the holding responsibility part comes with psychological benefits along with the psychological disadvantages. Namely, in my view and in my experience, feeling a sense of responsibility is empowering, while feeling a lack of responsibility or agency is certainly easier in many ways but also comes with a sense of weakness and helplessness that can create a lot of depressed feelings. As I remember reading once in an advice article (whose title and author I don’t remember), “It’s easy to be miserable.” In the context of that article, I think its author was trying to say that a lot of misery arises from a failure to take responsibility, which is seductive because of how easy it is... but of course, due to the being miserable part, that deal definitely isn’t better than one where one feels empowered through the weight of responsibility to not have to be so miserable.

(Rereading what I’ve written here the following day, my words in the above paragraph look like contradictory nonsense in the context of the essay I’m responding to: it may sound like I’m saying “Aella is wrong to equate the benefits of lesser responsibility with the benefits or greater power, because carrying lesser responsibility also comes with the disadvantage of having lesser power.” But this is because I’m struggling to make a clear distinction in words between power in the sense of institutional power or authority to make decisions -- the power that Aella refers to -- and the feeling of personal empowerment in the sense of being able to tolerate or withstand adversity. I’m saying that a direct negative consequence of not carrying the ball of responsibility is a feeling of personal weakness that comes with it, which is fairly separate from the fact that lesser responsibility tends to be correlated with less society-bestowed power. Perhaps I’m slightly confounded here by viewing everything primarily through the lens of modern times, where differences in concrete society-bestowed power have mostly disintegrated and a lot of the oppression that activists complain about boils down to some adversity being intolerable mental-health-wise. Not sure if this edited-in aside clarifies my position or makes it even more muddled.)

This is not to say that in practice people don’t choose the less-responsibility route far more often than taking the glowing ball of responsibility. They do, I believe increasingly as our society becomes more socially progressive, and the younger generations recently seem to be embracing a norm of doing it more than ever. And that’s in large part because in a certain sense, it is the easier path. But that doesn’t mean they’re better off psychologically for it. Here let me try my hand at saying something potentially offensive very concisely and directly *deep breath*: the people I know who are most committed to shooing away that ball of responsibility -- the “environment-changers” as Aella might call them or the low-agency-goggle-wearers as I might call them -- the ones who go to the most extreme deep end in that direction tend on the whole to be the most bitter and frustrated, the most terrified of life in general, and the least emotionally or psychologically healthy people I’ve known, to an extent that I don’t think can fully be directly explained by the disadvantages that were handed to them.

As for Aella’s observation that on average men tend to have a more high-agency mentality while women tend to have a more low-agency one... yes, this has certainly occurred to me although I don’t think I’ve ever noted it in writing -- for some reason, I hesitate to feel fully convinced. I still lean towards claiming that the tribe one belongs to is a bigger factor here than gender, but it certainly makes sense that gender is a factor, and her observation does jive with my experience.

Now we get to the part about the Gillette ad, and again I can’t bring myself to go as far as the essay does. I should probably write another post describing a fuller reaction to the ad. As a response to the essay, I would argue that the author is making a point I strongly agree with about modern feminism in general (perhaps it can be applied to some other wings of SJ but far less so since for most other axes of oppression the reality really is something much closer to members of one group directly oppressing the members of another), but that the Gillette ad is not really a great example of this.

I understand “toxic masculinity” in this context to refer to certain behaviors traditionally associated with masculinity that are harmful but still encouraged or normalized for men in our culture. I agree that the ad places responsibility for fixing toxic masculinity solely on men and that this is an overly-simplistic judgment (although to some extent a statement that brief has to be simplistic). I also have some of my own issues with the ad. But sometimes the solution to overturning a cultural norm for a particular group really does almost exclusively rest on the shoulders of that group.

Aella states near the end of the essay, “Women reinforced gender roles just as much, if not more, than the men did.” My personal impression is a variant of this: I think it always has been and continues to be the case that women are the primary enforcers of female gender roles (including some of the most oppressive ones to live under) while men are the primary enforcers of male gender roles. In other words, gender roles are policed most heavily among one’s own gender group. That would imply in this case that many of the traditionally-male behaviors brought up in the ad -- physical aggression, sexual harassment, objectification of women and so on -- are reinforced in men primarily by other men. This strongly jives with my personal experience: it’s never been girls and women in my life who shamed me for not being fiercely competitive about something or for not picking fights or for not being aggressive enough at approaching women for dating/sex. In my life, it’s almost exclusively other guys that have. Of course I’m not saying that these masculine norms are entirely not enforced by women -- in particular, objectification of women arguably is perpetuated on a certain level by some subset of the female population. But I think by and large women tend to promote values for everyone of all genders which are the opposite of the uglier traditionally-masculine norms: diplomacy, sensitivity, gentleness, and so on.

And one corollary of men being the main perpetrators of “toxic masculinity” behavior among fellow men is that the most effective way to push things in the opposite direction is for men to start pushing other men away from these behaviors (”Not cool, dude!”). Which is exactly what the Gillette ad is preaching.

[omg-johndel-b-villarin]

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.

 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,

   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?

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.

                                     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.