19 Feb 2007
Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67)
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And the Sun Smiled
Excerpt: Personification - a figure of thought in which an abstract concept, animal, or inanimate object is treated as though it were alive or had human attributes.Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: Personification - a figure of thought in which an abstract concept, animal, or inanimate object is treated as though it were alive or had human attributes.Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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That's and understatement!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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You just can't win
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Cosmic irony refers to an implied worldview in which characters are led to embrace false hopes of aid or success, only to be defeated by some larger force,...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Cosmic irony refers to an implied worldview in which characters are led to embrace false hopes of aid or success, only to be defeated by some larger force,...
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Compromise is Not Always a Good Thing
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "'She felt a heavy burden of guilt, but she would not let it engulf her resolve.' The word 'burden' is already a vehicle for the tenor, her guilt;...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "'She felt a heavy burden of guilt, but she would not let it engulf her resolve.' The word 'burden' is already a vehicle for the tenor, her guilt;...
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As if! Like totally!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) In a metaphor, a word or phrase that in literal use designates one kind of thing is applied to a conspicuously different object, concept, or experience, without asserti...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) In a metaphor, a word or phrase that in literal use designates one kind of thing is applied to a conspicuously different object, concept, or experience, without asserti...
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I feel like an oxyMORON sometimes...
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "An oxymoron is a compressed paradox that closely links two seemingly contrary elements in a way that, on further consideration, turns out to make good sense." I heard...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "An oxymoron is a compressed paradox that closely links two seemingly contrary elements in a way that, on further consideration, turns out to make good sense." I heard...
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It's simple, but can be confusing!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A simile is a figure of thought in which one kind of thing is compared to a markedly different object, concept, or experience."...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A simile is a figure of thought in which one kind of thing is compared to a markedly different object, concept, or experience."...
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Don't fail me now!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Interesting
Excerpt: Figures of thought, or tropes (from the Greek word meaning "a turn") are words or phrases used in ways that effect an obvious change (or "turn") in their standard meaning. Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to...
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Excerpt: Figures of thought, or tropes (from the Greek word meaning "a turn") are words or phrases used in ways that effect an obvious change (or "turn") in their standard meaning. Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to...
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Litotes! Litotes!
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
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To Pun or Not To Pun
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A pun is a figure of thought that plays on words that have the same sound, or closely similar sounds, but have sharply contrasted meanings."...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "A pun is a figure of thought that plays on words that have the same sound, or closely similar sounds, but have sharply contrasted meanings."...
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Blogging is my favorite pasttime
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Sarcasm is synonymous with verbal irony."...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Sarcasm is synonymous with verbal irony."...
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Pathetic (that I didn't know it) Fallacy
Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Pathetic fallacy is a special type of personification, in which inanimate aspects of nature, such as the landscape or the weather, are represented as having human qual...
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Excerpt: Hamilton, Essential Literary Terms (32-67) -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Pathetic fallacy is a special type of personification, in which inanimate aspects of nature, such as the landscape or the weather, are represented as having human qual...
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