Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Gale Power Search: Woman Enough?
Gale Power Search - Document This is the very article that brought my attention to this matter.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Literary Devices
- Apostrophe: addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee!
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”
The handle toward my hand?
Come, let me clutch thee!
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”
- Assonance: the use of words that have the same or similar vowel sounds
"summer fun"
"bright sky"
"rise high"
"I feel restless and depressed."
- Asyndeton: omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses
"I came, I saw, I conquered"
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"
- Catachresis: use of the wrong word for the context
"blind mouths"
"Honey, you are a regular nuclear meltdown. You'd better cool off."
- Chiasmus: an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases
"Do I love you because you are beautiful? Or are you beautiful because I love you?"
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