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If you could be a literary device, which would you be?
I think I would be the elipsis and vanish unnoticed in a crowd.
If you could invent a literary device, what would it be?
We invented the 'cinnadoshay' which is where an author characterizes a human with inhuman qualities. How it differs from a metaphor or simile I'm not sure, but it does!
(the spelling is a joke because we have been taught so many very different ways to pronounce synedoche in our literary careers)
Is a plot hole a literary device? I am very much one of those.
I'm thinking of changing my name to stream of consciousness.
You should change it to Ki Ki #1.5. :kaoclove:Quote:
Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill
I'll go with diction. If punctuation counts as a literary device, I'm definitely a semicolon.
Satire
I would be a metaphor. Lol?
I'm the exclamation mark because everything in my life moves at a trillion light years a second!
I AM CAPITALIZATION.
I am like the similie.
If I had to make up a literary device IT WOULD BE COMMUNISM.Quote:
Originally Posted by Odd Eye
I would be musical devices, such as alliteration and consonance...
And if i could make up my own literary device it would be "Two-way metaphor" in which the idea of a person is presented two different ways through one way of speaking...essentially a whole sotry of double entandra
I think I want to be the climax, and it's too easy so I won't say anything else :(
Edit: If that counts as one at all.
Actually, I changed my mind. Can I be spark notes?
Deus ex machina
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I'm the guy who breaks the fourth wall.
I don't think punctuation counts as a literary device, but that might just be me. When I said elipsis, I didn't mean this sucker: . . .. And if someone were to say apostrophe, they'd better not mean '!
double entandra
A double entendre is more of a verbal faux pas. I'd go with pathetic fallacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by bipper
A period. Or an elipses...or however that's spelled...
I would be the sexiest one of them all- Personification!
It is just as much a literary device as an Allegory, in the sense that it can be used to drive the litterature to an artistic level. Most all forms of art can be performed with a double entandra; better yet, it can layer into even more devices as symbolism. A whole story can often be a double entandra, as in simplistic satire. It is an amazing thing - as am I.Quote:
Originally Posted by TavrobelA double entendre is more of a verbal faux pas. I'd go with pathetic fallacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by bipper
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Literary devices refers to specific aspects of literature, in the sense of its universal function as an art form which expresses ideas through language, or with regard to a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. Both literary elements and literary techniques can rightly be called literary devices.
blackmage_nuke stole my answer. I'd make a wizard change the past so he'd never been born.
Then punctuation should also be considered a device, as when it is used in different ways, different interpretations would arise. Amazings things are things you don't expect. I expect nothing less from a GOE.
Definitely onomatopoeia.
Punctuation is grammar, and if you're going to meddle in fallacies tavrobel, I would say that would belong to rhetorical devices, which is outside the scope of the topic!
ianale
How wrong you are.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
I winnar you. As a punishment, I want the rights to in medias res, as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wikipedia's article on Literary Techniques and redirected from Literary Device
Words in Literature are often misleading. Don't stop to think for even a second that if you don't know what something is, that you can simply get its proper meaning from context or related words, Grasshopper.
Arguing with a cids knight isnt that great of an idea:p
I will argue that which is correct, and regardless of whether or not she wants to ban me, I will not lose sleep if I ever am incorrect. Perhaps you would not like to argue with a Cid's Knight, but I will do it as I deem fit.
Do you talk like this in real life?
Yes, but with curses added for good flavor. I'm not a very imaginative person.Quote:
Originally Posted by Del Murder
Well, I guess I'll take comfort in the idea that however many conclusions I jump to, I'm at least a nice person! Gosh!
Oxymoron!
Literary? Literature?
Taking out of context! winnar am I! This is why he will argue what I say, once :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
Sorry, bipper, I'm not supposed to support you in any way, shape, or form.Quote:
Originally Posted by bipperTaking out of context! winnar am I! This is why he will argue what I say, once :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
Being nice is highly overrated. It's much more fun to be a jerk.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
Since we're going to tack on all sorts of fancy technical terms and elements of rhetoric, I claim ethos, pathos, and logos. While on the topic of fallacies, I select the association fallacy guilt by honor. Also, although not exactly a literary device, I select profanity.
I think I've covered my bases well enough now.
Well then can I claim d’Artagnan?
We aren't, that's what tavrobel was pointing out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ouch!Being nice is highly overrated. It's much more fun to be a jerk.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
Since we're going to tack on all sorts of fancy technical terms and elements of rhetoric, I claim ethos, pathos, and logos. While on the topic of fallacies, I select the association fallacy guilt by honor. Also, although not exactly a literary device, I select profanity.
I think I've covered my bases well enough now.
It would appear that my intention was misinterpreted.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubahWe aren't, that's what tavrobel was pointing out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ouch!Being nice is highly overrated. It's much more fun to be a jerk.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
Since we're going to tack on all sorts of fancy technical terms and elements of rhetoric, I claim ethos, pathos, and logos. While on the topic of fallacies, I select the association fallacy guilt by honor. Also, although not exactly a literary device, I select profanity.
I think I've covered my bases well enough now.
I would be a palindrome.
Or alliteration.
Or rhyme.
Take your pick.
You way support my out of shapeness in true form.Quote:
Originally Posted by TavrobelSorry, bipper, I'm not supposed to support you in any way, shape, or form.Quote:
Originally Posted by bipperTaking out of context! winnar am I! This is why he will argue what I say, once :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Tavrobel
I would be the Everyman who understands that wit is better left to the Fool.
I'd be a Blackadder-style extended metaphor.
Probably accompanied by some blatant innuendo that's delivered so innocuously that it sounds completely unintentional. I do that in real life sometimes.
on purpose, D?
is that kinda like the other night when I hit my cheek on a door and my mom said she hoped I wouldn't get a boner from it? rather, a black eye?
Yup, usually. If it's only a mild innuendo, then it's easy to get away with. It's quite out-of-character for me, so a straight-faced delivery can leave people guessing as to whether I actually intended - or even noticed - the dodgy connotation.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
I had to look at wikipedia's and see if any apply to me.
I have decided on deux ex machina, because for SOME stupid reason, EVERY SINGLE TIME something comes along to revert everything back to status quo.
Like I'll be in a crappy relationship so suddenly I'll just yell at her and she'll break up with me and yay, I'm back to the way I was.
Or I'll get fired and look for a new job and it will be hard and thankless and suddenly my dad / his friend / some guy will be like 'hay pg wanna work' and then bam I'm back at status quo.
Yay.
I'd be the...umm...well, that actually. "...". It's called an ellipsis or summat like that.
It'd rule if your dad actually called you PG...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pureghetto