#antiphrasis

[ficmylife4]

I was considering how American English says something, meaning the opposite, and it looks like there is an actual term for it? Litotes. I don't mean sarcasm, but like writing "Gotham City isn't known for its honest politicians" does not mean exactly what it says, that this is not a point the city is known for. Instead it is meant to communicate worse - Gotham City's politicians are known to be corrupt, even extremely corrupt. "It's not my favorite interpretation of that character" isn't just ranking the character below favorite, it more likely means that is the interpretation of character I like the least. "He wasn't happy"= He was extremely displeased. "Not bad at all"= Great.

I'm so used to it and then I was thinking about time eroding slang and translations into other languages and alien archaeologists in the future and realize how hard it can be to keep meaning when it isn't in the words themselves.

[caliosi]

My art fight piece for @cadaverkeys ‘s oc Dearly Beloved. I really want to draw fanart of them interacting with Kazimir, they seem like the antiphrasis of each other. I accidentally put them in the exact same pose as my other art fight piece from today.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Fat Markle's by u/IconicAnimatronic

Fat Markle's I don't know where it came from, but in the CDAN comments, someone always responds with "fat Markle", which is obviously the use of antiphrasis, but...I honestly think she'd be better off using that as her brand name - there's a place in Cornwall, England, called Fat Willy's Surf Shack, and it's been thriving since 1985!Fat Markle's strawberry jam.Fat Markle's face scrub.Fat Markle's shower gel.Fat Markle's body oil.Fat Markle's sports bra.Fat Markle's pinot grigio!I'd be far more likely to buy something from that brand, rather than the pretentious ARO!I'm quite self-deprecating, love humour, and I'd pick something like that up and run with it. Obviously madam is too serious a character to do that, but it can't do any worse than what she's got!What Would you rebound as, if you were in her stolen Aquazzura's shoes? post link: https://ift.tt/MjN6chR author: IconicAnimatronic submitted: September 14, 2024 at 09:44AM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[cygninae]

if you could give the baudelaire orphans a song each to soundtrack their lives, what would you pick?

Hi ! Thanks for the ask. This is a great question !

For Violet, the song I'll give her is I Know It's Over by The Smiths. The painful melancholy of this song and the repeated lyrics of "i know it's over", as though pretending one is okay being so lonely reminds me of her, as she takes the role of an adult by the mid-point of ASOUE, acting as a parent for her two siblings but without someone to look after her. The theme of death carried through the song is also something that I feel translates to Violet's story. There is also a lyric about a sad bride, which I mean, self-explanatory.

"It's so easy to laugh It's so easy to hate It takes strength to be gentle and kind Over, over, over, over... I know it's over."

For Klaus, I'll give him the song The Wolves Act I and II by Bon Iver. This is a song that I personally have a strong attachment too and it's a really, really interesting piece of music. Although the primary lyric in this song is "what might've been lost doesn't bother me," this is an antiphrasis. As the song develops this lyric becomes louder and louder until eventually it is being screamed and the background noise is crashing. The point is, these losses do bother him, and it's obvious in the way he acts, even sounds, yet he will repeat this phrase "it doesn't bother me". I've chosen this song for Klaus because I feel like he's a character with a lot of hidden anger. Badly hidden anger, I'll add !

"What might have been lost (Don't bother me) What might have been lost (Don't bother me) ... Someday my pain... (Will mark you)"

Lastly, Sunny. This is more difficult, since she's literally a baby for the majority of the story (that is documented), but I've decided to give her the song Look On Down From the Bridge by Mazzy Star. This song is dark, like the songs I've given her siblings, but it's more about feeling lost. My impression of Sunny is that, especially when considering her post-canon story, she is unsure on what her and her siblings really went through due to her lack of cognisance and she probably feels lost on her place in the world, due to the lack of support system around her while growing up.

"Everybody seems so far away from me Everybody just wants to be free."

Well, I hope these make sense! I tried my best to think carefully about these and really be accurate to the canon characters. If you want me to assign some songs to other characters let me know !

[sweetvox]

can you post a link to the fic you mentioned that u said u didnt want to advertise please. i would like to look at it really hard

looks around passes this to you. because you asked very nicely

[thedemon-crowley]

Okay, more nicknames! I feel like I'm getting better at them and I strive to get three nines today!  *Celebrity edition:*

-(The Satanic) Mr Fox (hear me out: red hair, cunning, alert, swift under pressure, so much energy. also, have you ever heard a fox laugh?)

- Champagne Bolt (because like alcohol and lightning)

- Flower Chain Bolt (maybe that's one for Samael.)

- Disdain Bolt (I've seen you look at Gabriel, don't lie)

- Free Rein Bolt (I've seen you exist, don't lie. imagination, rage, come on)

- Shakira (those hips don't lie)

- Bob Ross (Antiphrasis is a rhetorical and comedic dev—...)

- Hurricane Bolt (haha, gotcha. one more)

- Anita Ward (you were into disco, right? and you're into Queen, she is one; i think this  checks out)

-Tigger (high-energy, risk-taker, red hair, tall, non-predatory predator, confident, optimistic, silly. his tail can coil together and you're a snake. also, Tigger's a celeb, fight me)

(trying out explanations this time because you had questions in the past. Not sure what's better. I can leave out the commentary again next time. also yes, velma because of turtle neck)

-🫛🪶🐡 ('twas I the whole time!)

• wahoo/wahoo - starting strong!

• 9.5/wahoo - sounds a bit like an adult film star, but I love it.

• 7/wahoo - definitely more suited to Sam

• 8/wahoo - it is banger after banger with you today

• 6/wahoo - I see the vision

• 8/wahoo - oh baby when you talk like that

• 6/wahoo - rhymes with mob boss

• 7/wahoo - Ah! The element of surprise.

• 9/wahoo - I’m never living the disco phase down

• 9.5/wahoo - see the wonderful thing about tiggers, is tiggers are wonderful things; their heads are made out of rubber, their tails are made out of springs. They’re bouncy bouncy bouncy bouncy fun fun fun fun fun—

Excellent collection! Bravo!

[groupalpha]

Oh!

Is that an invitation?

(Referring to Prism’s “make fun of my structure while you’re at it comment”)

EPS: That was not an invitation, it was an antiphrasis. Having my structure made fun of is not what I want, especially now.

[caracello]

i thought abt touching his cheeks¹ qnd dropped my phone in pure fear and anguish²

¹helmet cheeks

²anguish, in this case, used as antiphrasis

[ham1lton]

Supposed to mean you are excellent in writing 😊 I used 'chanmé' as a antiphrasis— a figure of speech where words are used to mean the opposite of its meaning. My grammar is not perfect in that ask, though haha (jet lag 😤)

— 🌤🎶☕️

hi honey!! im so sorry!! ur ask got buried 😭 but im glad that you meant it to mean something positive 😭 i was worried for a sec!! also omg did u just come back from holiday?? jealous!!!

[spnsmile]

it's the climb (x)

[kaylor]

Where in the hell is Taylor singing about not liking gold? No, seriously, explain where she's singing about not liking gold and don't you say gold rush because that's the only proof anyone with just half a brain cell needs to read to realize that both Gorgeous and gold rush flew right over your head and your missing the point of both songs by 13 billion light years.

Hot Trash Idiot Take: "Gorgeous and gold rush should be taken literally as an indisputable truth about Taylor's feelings because Taylor Alison Swift has such severe cognative deficiencies that she has no clue how to wipe her own ass without help, let alone knowing how to use Antiphrasis as a literary device!"

Google is your friend, my dude, try using it before you open your mouth and you'll start to look smart instead of like an arrogant fool who deliberately ignores the existence of any and all literary devices to get pointless internet clout being being acting like a brain dead clown.

You're nowhere close to being stupid, so stop acting and talking like you have an IQ below 50 to get internet attention that means nothing in the long run, Maddie, it's not to hard to Google "literary devices that suggest the opposite" to find out that Antiphrasis is the name of the literary device that Taylor had used a lot in her writing career, so don't act like it is.

but mommy i love internet attention

[reinemrgt]

shit ive heard french lit students say

"i would fuck the pythia"

"zeus would not blame me for fucking the pythia"

"im twerking like enjolras"

"in the middle ages everyone blew their noses"

*a long argument on whether i used antiphrasis or antonyms when i said i was young and popular*(i didn't win. no one won)

"the letter t does not exist"

"ferns are really dangerous"

"-you could become a pickpocket or a prostitute when we go to Naples.

-I can do both. I take your clothes off and then I take your clothes"

*playfighting in front of the Louvre* "this is what Delacroix would have wanted"

*asking questions to a classics teacher about Ancient Times* "so when did people start drinking water ?"

*asking questions to a classics teacher about Ancient Times* "was prostitute a good position ?" (spoiler alert : it is not)

"not to sound aggressive but i'm going to kill you"

*another long argument about Astérix and astérisques* (won that argument)

"while we're on the subject of yodelling"

"god i wish i was a frog"

*while in class, pretending to smoke a blunt out of rolled-up price stickers. like rrrreally pretending. passing it around for minutes and everything*

"papyrus is not a dangerous animal"

"i want to make a musical where everything is normal except one actor really doesn't want to be here"

"if i was locked up in a room with four white walls like an asylum i'd probably make art with my pee"

"-i'm going to cry later.

-why ?

-i don't know, it's fun."

"A natural pool is like a puddle but better"

"*whilst slapping someone's arm* ASMR"

"i'm sorry but the letter k is way too high up in the alphabet. it should be down there with the weirdos."

[mentalcurls]

7. Ho fatto un casino

It’s been almost a week but here I am, back with my thoughts on episode 7 of the 1st season of Skam Italia. I talk about being calm and cool and chill, about toxic masculinity and the parallelisms between Silvia and Eva. The results for the Bechdel test for this episode are at the end as usual. Enjoy!

the episode starts on the most lovely note: the girls, alone, having a conversation about about a really interesting, engaging and thought-provoking topic *drumroll* the Villa guys. Yay.

the silence of the girlsquad while Silvia talk about Formentera, the perplexed stares

Eleonora is holding back from commenting so hard! Her “What are you doing with that sandwich?” is a bit judge-y, sure, but not as judge-y as the instinctive “What are doing destroying that poor sandwich?” I would have gone for

that fake nonchalance from Silvia! She’s being low maintenance! She doesn’t need to talk, it’s cool that the guy she likes made out with another girl, it’s fine! She didn’t take it badly, “ti pare”?

IDK why but I love Ele looking back towards Eva to look for confirmation and support when Silvia seems not to know what she’s talking about

Silvia is cool as a cucumber and just casually piling on justification upon justification and diverting the conversation as far from Edoardo as possible

she’s so casual!!! She made out with someone while she was so drunk she can’t even remember who it was and it’s whatever!! Chill!!!

and to continue the streak of super casual, nonchalant people, here’s Eva asking about Federico, just out of innocent curiosity, you know

that thank you kiss (that goes on for nearly 20 seconds) is completely chill as well

Gio: promises Eva 2am crepes also Gio: actually only ever brings Eva coffee from a vending machine that he only got because the machine ate his money in the first place

Eva casually asking Gio where he is going with his friends, despite complaining a lot in previous episodes about said friends and the person Gio becomes when he’s with them: not out of character at all, Gio won’t notice anything! She’s suave!

cue Gio noticing, but being too kiss drunk and letting himself be convinced (and oh how the tables have turned! This is some mild gaslighting from Eva!)

super casual, super smooth public declarations of love

and then Federica, cool as anything, asking about Marti’s relationship status

this clip was titled “Il panico” and I love this title so much. I would have gone for something like “And everyone was chill” but this antiphrasis-cum-Silvia-quote is pretty good too 

going back a second, Marti’s face while Gio and Eva kiss! He’s awkward and avoiding looking at them exactly like the other girls, but there’s so much annoyance there too! We’ve already seen him break up at least one of their kisses (first clip with the “A zozzoni!”) and I bet he’d totally pull an Ammucchiate!Niccolò here if he thought he could get away with it

that pool is a really cool place, I really want Marti to take Nico there at some point cause it fits his aesthetic for romantic places perfectly

how smooth, how suave of Gio to lose control of his skateboard and end up falling on his ass in the mud 

Marti’s hair! It’s tremendous! Baby, cut it please, I’m begging you (AND I KNOW THIS IS AN UNPOPULAR OPINION OK but you can’t deny he needs a bit of order on that head)

M: “I see things are going better” E: “Yeah, [...] everything is fine” COOL AS CUCUMBERS, the both of them. The fake nonchalance. The facade of chill.

then Eva swallows, takes a deep breath and it all comes crashing down

Eva is 100% talking to Marti instead of one of the girls because they would obviously tell her off for listening to a dumb boy’s advice and she’s scared they would turn on her for “making” another boy cheat like it happened with Laura over Gio, when in reality the girls would/will take her side both with the Federico/Alice situation and the Giovanni situation; on the other hand, she is convinced from their previous conversation Marti is on her side, she’s looking for validation of what she did when she took his advice despite feeling stupid for taking it herself, but she also wants someone who will tell her off for cheating on Gio, who maybe will fight her about it cause it’ll be cathartic, so Marti is the obvious choice of confidant here

and Marti is taken aback: I don’t think he expected Eva to actually go to Laura, Laura to actually tell the truth and most of all to cause such an earthquake with a half-assed line about going to the source

is Marti that concerned about Federica that he really thinks of her first when Eva tells him about kissing “Fede” or is he that unaware of what Eva’s social life has looked in the past few months and of the hierarchy at school? Both, I suspect. He’s a disaster.

“Hai capito” he’s so shook! He doesn’t know how to react! His mind starts going a million miles an hour

and again! He’s Gio’s best friend, he’d put himself in front of a bullet for Gio, but he makes it sound like he’s siding with Eva, like he’s giving advice based on what’s best for her and Eva believes him without a second thought! I just can’t with these kids. She even thanks him!

the shots focused on Gio skateboarding down in the pool are from both Eva and Marti’s point of view not only in the sense that they come from their position, where they’re sitting close to one another, but because they both see him in the same way: boyfriend material

what’s Silvia doing wearing that ugly jacket?? I mean she looks great anyways, but it’s so ugly and plasticky and it doesn’t compliment her figure at all??

and oh, this poor baby. She’s been so brainwashed into believing a) that she needs a man; b) that her self-worth lies in the social status of the man she’ll get herself; c) that men treating women like shit is par for the course and a sign they actually like them, they’re just being manly she just. Doesn’t. Get. It. Her first thought when Eva asks about Federico is that she likes him, not that she likes gossip, or that she needs blackmail to get rid of the guy who we know and the girls know has been hitting on her, despite knowing she has a boyfriend (which would have been my first thought tbh). She thinks that Edo’s silence is jealousy and she’s absolutely devastated when she finds out about the lows teenage boys can get to when it comes to status, sex and proving their masculinity

Eva and Silvia’s clothes have similar colors in this clip, but inverted (pink shirt and blue jacket for Silvia, blue t-shirt and red-purple shirt over it for Eva) which I think is significant: everyone knows Silvia’s been with Edo because she’s advertised it to be more popular, while Eva’s doing her best to prevent her story of her kiss with Fede from coming out, so the colors are inverted; at the same time, they are part of the same color families because Silvia and Eva have both “been” with one of the Villa boys and therefore they’re both on that wall and in both their cases there’s a third guy involved (Gio and Rocco Martucci); Eleonora on the other hand is in black, neutral.

and Ele calls the wall “posto di merda” and I couldn’t agree more: it is a sanctuary of sexism and misogyny, a place specifically created to celebrate the guys’ sexuality, while demeaning and ridiculing girls for theirs, along of course with other, “lesser” boys who are not in their circle and don’t have as much sex (in the Villa guys’ perception) as them or don’t get girls as hot as theirs: it’s obviously the new frontier of a classic of toxic masculinity, comparing dick sizes, with a dash more misogyny thrown in for good measure, and it’s public in a way notches on the bedframe (another great toxic masculinity classic) aren’t, since those are a twisted way of demonstrating how good you are in bed to women along with how you’re a casanova not looking for anything serious, the wall is a self-congratulatory group activity for the elite, accessible to anyone in theory, but unknown to most people; the only thing I have to say that’s even just vaguely positive about the wall compared to the Penetrators sweatshirts in the OG is that it’s less about “possession” of the girls, who are still objectified, but are not marked in an outward way to indicate they “belong” to a specific group or a specific member of the group

EVA, GUARDAMI EVA: why the fuck would you call him? You already know he won’t take you seriously, he’s never taken you seriously while talking to you face to face, why would he be any better on the phone!

Eva just really doesn’t know how to lie. She’s shit at it, with anybody. The only secrets she manages to keep are those who only require her to omit the truth without having to make up excuses: the only lie we see her successfully tell is about spending Easter with Sara and Laura, while was with Gio, and even then she kind of betrays herself later when she tells her mom her and Laura haven’t been talking much since they were put in different classes

I’ve been disproved! She successfully pretends Fede is her mom on the phone right then. Whoops.

cue Federico disregarding Eva’s requests and instructions because he’s a self-centered, sexually objectifying ass as usual and calling her and making fun of her

I don’t have much to say about the conversation between Gio and Eva on the couch, except that Gio is obviously avoiding the words “drug” and “marijuana” because he wants to ignore the potential addiction he has shown he could develop, that conversation in which people disagree on something important but them man distracts the woman by being silly always make me uncomfortable cause I feel he thinks her thoughts are valid and that Eva  must be feeling so shit when Gio tells her he’s decided to tell her everything and never lie AND IT’S BECAUSE OF MARTI who told her not to communicate with Gio

fully siding with Eleonora on the wedges discourse

so much sarcasm in that conversation at Baretto

Sana’s first response to Silvia, who treated her like shit and was racist towards her, is to repay her in brutal honesty, and it’s honestly cruel sometimes, but genius cause what can Silvia do or answer?

“Sticazzi degli altri” and this moment is so important! Everything the girls have been trying to teach Silvia in the past few months about self worth, confidence, about not giving too much weight to other people’s opinions and about feminism coagulates in this single moment for Silvia: she couldn’t be low-maintenance enough for Edoardo to keep her? Fine, now she’s gonna be fucking high maintenance and loud and proud and hand him his ass. 

except it’s all facade, she’s still a scared, naive girl who’s a bit of a pushover inside, so when she actually confronts her monster she caves immediately when the interaction doesn’t play out as she envisioned, and in the end she comes out of it destroyed and with the idea that being confident, proud etc. is only harmful for her social status

Silvia can’t even get Edo to listen at her! Not until one of the other girls arrives and calls him out

that “Ciao!” is the epitome of the fake confidence Silvia’s portraying, she’s trying to be cool and suave and destroy him like Ele or Sana would (and will)

and what an haphazard, unthreatening group the girlsquad looks when compared to the Villa guys, all in black, far taller, forming a more compact front, arms on shoulders, exchanging looks behind Edo

“If you think you can reduce me to an X on a wall” that would be bad enough! But even worse, Silvia is not even an X, she’s not even on Edo’s radar enough for him to know her name, despite her giving him her first time!

Silvia is a cautionary tale for teaching girls about consent too, both because of how she handled the sex with Edo and making out with Martucci, and conversely because despite all the signals and implied messages from Edo telling her no, that he’s not interested in her, she still continues to go after him

and like, I said before that I got why Edoardo is doing this, but he’s such an ASSHOLE about it, I wanna punch him in the face so bad

he throws her off straight away, pretending he doesn’t know what she’s talking about (Silvia should have predicted that, really, as I said before, it’s an ELITE thing, not many people are supposed to know about it so why would Edo acknowledge that something exists, that he knows anything about it and that it’s a secret Silvia has been allowed into too?

then he interrupts her! And I don’t think I need to say anything more about manterrupting than what has already been said

Silvia is completely frozen. This is the man of her dreams. She had sex with him. Only a little over a week earlier. The entire world crashes down on her. He doesn’t seem to remember her at all.

and after confusing her, breaking her heart, disproving her theory, treating her like a child and humiliating her, Edo just has to dig a bit deeper still and mock her

re: Ele’s roast, I’m just gonna 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

the girls though: while Edo is talking to Silvia, Sana and Ele are simmering with barely contained rage, while Fede is as chided as Silvia is and Eva is worried about Silvia, but also about Federico, I bet she was checking what he was doing out of the corner of her eye for the whole conversation; then when Ele talks, and afterwards, while they leave, their bearing completely changes, they stand up straighter, their chins are high and they leave with nonchalance and an air of superiority

Giovanni complaining about not answering perfectly a particularly hard question he was asked in a test is such a classico mood though

Eva is so cute, being worried for Silvia and checking in on her

Alice has anger management issues obviously, but I stan Mr Boccia’s female colleague who is an impressive example of female solidarity and  teaching the right messages, even if her methods are not very conventional of pedagogically great; basically the whole PE department in this school is 💯

and then there’s the fight: Alice arrives with a group of friends, like a proper ambush; I love killer Sana with the dictionary, that poor girls on the other end of things will have some very nasty bruises; all the girls get in the fray, even Silvia and they form a shield behind which they hide Eva

Ele is super interesting to me here: she’s in proper boxer stance, like she knows how to fight, and she probably does, doesn’t she? What with being a beautiful girl in a big city in a sexist world and what with Filippo being her brother and gay and flamboyant and probably getting bullied when they were both younger. On top of this, as soon as Alice calls Eva “troia” she gets mad as a hornet ‘cause she just can’t stand people who use the derogatory terms that condemn women simply on the basis of how much sex they’ve had and stigmatize sex workers, especially when it’s women against other women (see also ep.1 with Laura calling Eva “puttana”)

and after that, much as she won’t believe it, Silvia’s moment with Edoardo is forgotten; more importantly, though, Alice and Federico’s fight during PE is forgotten, as is the fact that this situation is his fault since he cheated; no, the thing that lasts in people’s mind is the catfight between girls outside the school gate and how that redhead from 3B is a whore

Bechdel test: this episode doesn’t pass the Bechdel test. I’ve thought quite a bit about it, because there are technically two conversation that pass the test: one while the girls are at Baretto, in which they talk about Fede’s pink wedge shoes, but I decided not to count it just like I didn’t count the conversation on the windowsill about Margot in the last episode, cause it fades in and the topic changes after just a few seconds; the other immediately follows and it consists of Silvia telling the others she got 7 in Maths and that she found the ananas cake on a website: I decided not to count this one because it almost completely one-sided and Silvia starts talking about Edoardo the very next minute.

This post is part of my complete series of meta about Skam Italia season 1.  If you’d like to read more of my thoughts about the other episodes, you can find the mastepost linked in the top bar on my blog under SKAMIT: EVA. Cheers!

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Source: antiphrasis

[lykalilydalaguit]

Asynchronous no. 3

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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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.