#prosopopoeia

[tinyreviews]

Writing Tips: Poetry

Literary devices that may improve your poetry:

Subtext:

Subtext involves conveying deeper, unspoken meanings beneath the surface of your words.

Use metaphor, symbolism, or allusion to hint at underlying emotions or themes.

For example, in "The Great Gatsby", Jay Gatsby throws extravagant parties, hoping that his lost love, Daisy, will attend. On the surface, it's about social gatherings, but the subtext reveals Gatsby's desperate longing for a reunion, highlighting the theme of unattainable dreams.

Hendiadys:

It's a figure of speech where you express an idea with two nouns connected by "and" instead of an adjective and a noun. Add richness to your poetry by saying "fire and passion" instead of "fiery passion."

Example from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar": "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!" Here, "meek and gentle" combines two nouns to emphasize the speaker's sorrow and gentleness in addressing the slain Caesar's corpse.

Epiplexis:

This is a rhetorical device involving a series of questions used for emotional impact. Ask thought-provoking questions that stir emotions and provoke reflection in your readers.

Example from Langston Hughes' "Harlem": "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Epiplexis is used here to question the fate of deferred dreams, evoking a sense of urgency and frustration.

Subjectio:

Subjectio means turning a statement into a question, often used for emphasis. And often referred to as a “rhetorical question”.

Use this to make readers ponder, like turning "The sky is blue" into "Is the sky ever truly blue?"

Catachresis:

It's the use of an unconventional or strained metaphor to create unique and surprising imagery.

Example from Shakespeare's "Hamlet": "I will speak daggers to her." "Daggers" is used metaphorically for hurtful words, associating speech with a weapon, intensifying the impact of the line.

Prosopopoeia:

Prosopopoeia is personification, giving human attributes to non-human entities. Breathe life into your poems by making nature or objects seem human.

Example from Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death": "Death kindly stopped for me." Death is personified as a courteous and patient entity.

Synecdoche:

This involves using a part of something to represent the whole or vice versa.

For example, the word threads means clothing, heels means high-heeled shoes, and a suit is a businessperson who wears suits to work.

This is part of my Writing Tips series. Everyday I publish a writing tip to this blog.

[miraxth523]

2023/8/17

[psyxxchic]

[catilinas]

wow brainrot guess who just used the spelling 'lyctors' in the translation of a cicero letter :/

[mhaccunoval]

why do i have to be incredibly imaginative until it comes to using said imagination for an assignment that has constraints yet the constraints are loose enough that i have enough wiggle room to fucking Blank -___-

[brandonshimoda]

THE BOOKS I READ IN 2023

*I read it before

**I read it more than once this year

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, Common Grace

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

Ahmad Almallah, Bitter English

Alison Lubar, It Skips a Generation

Atef Abu Saif, The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary

Brynn Saito, Under a Future Sky

Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation

*Carolina Ebeid, You Ask Me to Talk About the Interior

Chanté L. Reid, Thot

*Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes

Christine Shan Shan Hou & Vi Khi Nao, Evolution of the Bullet

Christopher Okigbo, Labyrinths (with Paths of Thunder)

Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer

Dionne Brand, Chronicles of the Hostile Sun

*Dionne Brand, No Language is Neutral

Dionne Brand, Primitive Offensive

Édouard Louis, Who Killed My Father, translated from the French by Lorin Stein

**Emily Lee Luan, 回 / Return

Erin Marie Lynch, Removal Acts

Fady Joudah, Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Farid Tali, Prosopopoeia, translated from the French by Aditi Machado

Gabriel Palacios, A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth Is Sign (coming out 2024)

Ghayath Almadhoun, Adrenalin, translated from the Arabic by Catherine Cobham

Hauntie, To Whitey & The Cracker Jack

Hervé Guibert, To the friend who did not save my life, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale

Hiromi Ito, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits, translated from the Japanese by Jon L. Pitt

*James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

*James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name

*James Baldwin, The Devil Finds Work

James Fujinami Moore, Indecent Hours

Jami Nakamura Lin, The Night Parade

Jawdat Fakhreddine, Lighthouse for the Drowning, translated from the Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds

Jennifer Hayashida, A Machine Wrote This Song

Jenny Odell, Inhabiting The Negative Space

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

*Joy Kogawa, A Choice of Dreams

Joy Kogawa, A Garden of Anchors: Selected Poems

**Joy Kogawa, From the Lost and Found Department: New and Selected Poems

Joy Kogawa, Gently to Nagasaki

*Joy Kogawa, Jericho Road

*Joy Kogawa, Obasan

Joy Kogawa, The Rain Ascends

Joy Kogawa, The Splintered Moon

*Joy Kogawa, Woman in the Woods

Juan Felipe Herrera, Akrílica, eds. Farid Matuk, Carmen Giménez, Anthony Cody

Kamo-no-Chomei, Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World, translated from the Japanese by Yasuhiko Moriguchi and David Jenkins

Keorapetse Kgositsile, Collected Poems, 1969-2018

*Kiku Hughes, Displacement

Kōno Taeko, Toddler-Hunting, translated from the Japanese by Lucy North

Leila Khaled, My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary, as told to George Hajjar

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Kaan and Her Sisters

**Lindsey Webb, Plat (coming out in 2024)

Lisa Hsiao Chen, Activities of Daily Living

Liyana Badr, A Balcony over the Fakihani, translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley

Lucille Clifton, An Ordinary Woman

*Lucille Clifton, Blessing the Boats

Lucille Clifton, Good News About the Earth

Lucille Clifton, Good Times

Lucille Clifton, Two-Headed Woman

Mahmoud Darwish, The Butterfly’s Burden, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, If I Were Another, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine as Metaphor, translated from the Arabic by Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché

Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, You Can Be The Last Leaf, translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah

Maya Marshall, All the Blood Involved in Love

Michael Prior, Model Disciple

*Mitsuye Yamada, Camp Notes and Other Poems

Mitsuye Yamada, Full Circle: New and Selected Poems

Mohammed El-Kurd, RIFQA

**Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Mourid Barghouti, I Saw Ramallah, translated from the Arabic by Ahdaf Soueif

Mourid Barghouti, I Was Born There, I Was Born Here, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies

Mourid Barghouti, Midnight, translated from the Arabic by Radwa Ashour

Na Mira, The Book of Na

Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro, translated from the Japanese by Edwin McClellan

Nona Fernández, Voyager: Constellations of Memory, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Noor Hindi, DEAR GOD. DEAR BONES. DEAR YELLOW.

Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human, translated from the Japanese by Donald Keene

Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery, translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett

The Palestinian Wedding: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Palestinian Resistance Poetry, edited and translated from the Arabic by A.M. Elmessiri

R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Kappa, translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda and Allison Markin Powell

Salim Barakat, Come, Take a Gentle Stab: Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Huda J. Fakhreddine and Jayson Iwen

Samih Al-Qasim, All Faces But Mine, translated from the Arabic by Abdulwahid Lu’lu’a

Samih al-Qasim, Sadder Than Water: New & Selected Poems, translated from the Arabic by Nazih Kassis

*Saretta Morgan, Alt-Nature (coming out in 2024)

Satsuki Ina, The Poet and the Silk Girl (coming out in 2024)

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Twilight Years, translated from the Japanese by Mildred Tahara

Shailja Patel, Migritude

Sham-e-Ali Nayeem, City of Pearls

Sharon Yamato, Moving Walls

Shivanee Ramlochan, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting

**shō yamagushiku, shima (coming out in 2014)

Shuri Kido, Names and Rivers, translated from the Japanese by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander

*Solmaz Sharif, Customs

Stella Corso, Green Knife

*Taha Muhammad Ali, Never Mind: Twenty Poems and a Story, translated from the Arabic by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi, Gabriel Levin

Terry Watada, The Game of 100 Ghosts (Hyaku Monogatari Kwaidan-kai)

Victoria Chang, Obit

*Wong May, Superstitions

THE BOOKS I'M CURRENTLY READING, THAT I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET

Chi Rainer Bornfree and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, The Portal (not yet published)

Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

Eqbal Ahmad, The Selected Writings

Essays, ed. Dorothea Lasky

Fadwa Tuqan, A Mountainous Journey: A Poet's Autobiography, translated from the Arabic by Olive Kenny

James Welch, Winter in the Blood

Lan P. Duong, Nothing Follows

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Touching the Art

Preti Taneja, Aftermath

Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment

[prosoppy-opoeia]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Compilation of Final Fantasy VII Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Sephiroth/Cloud Strife, Sephiroth & Cloud Strife, Claudia Strife & Cloud Strife, Gast Faremis & Sephiroth (past) Characters: Cloud Strife, Sephiroth (Compilation of FFVII), Claudia Strife, Gast Faremis (mentioned), Tifa Lockhart, Brian Lockhart, Thea Lockhart, Hojo (Compilation of FFVII) Additional Tags: Childhood Friends, Alternate Universe - Childhood Friends, Strangers to Friends, Friends to "i would literally die for you", References to Norse Religion & Lore, Norse Mythology - Freeform, wolf facts, indirectly making fun of a/b/o dynamics, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Families of Choice, Found Family, I TEASE BECAUSE I LOVE, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Potentially Inaccurate Norse Mythology and/or Facts about Wolves, Growing Up Together, Hyperfixations, POV Third Person, POV Alternating Summary:

Cloud Strife was already the outcast child of Nibelheim, but it became infinitely worse once his infatuation with wolves began. He didn't necessarily mind his status, but after begging every last wolf story from his mother, exhausting the library of all its information, and exasperating the town with his fascinations, he wasn't sure where to go to next.

Until he met a strange boy named Sephiroth in the woods, whose knowledge seemed endless.

And that knowledge included wolves.

All Cloud had to trade is the one thing Sephiroth didn't know anything about: his mother's old stories. Lucky for him, the boy seemed to enjoy them as fervently as Cloud hoarded any and all information on his favorite subject.

He hoped this would be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

(or, how Cloud Strife's childhood wolf hyperfixation saved Gaia from ultimate destruction)

[gyaru-wish]

Yandere Simulator Characters’ illness, sickness or disorders

Ayano: Aishi condition

Info-chan: Antisocial personality disorder

Kizana: Obsesive-compulsive disorder

Oka: Anxiety, paranoia

Asu: Compulsive physical exercise

Osoro: Fractures, scars

Hanako. Obsession

Megami: Atychiphobia

Kuu: Misanthropy

Horuda: Suicidal and sociopathic tendencies

Otohiko: Cystic fibrosis, general ailments

Shoku: Farsightedness

Kenko: Diabetes

Ajia: Anorexy

Shozo:  Daltonism

Tokuko: The need for control

Kokona: Usual Headaches

Shin: Anemy, paranoia

Chojo: Extreme anger issues

Daku: Panic attacks

Supana: Depression

Geiju: Myopia, stress

Borupen: Psychopathic tendencies

Enpitsu: Narcissism

Maka: Autism

Efude: Gastritis

Juku: Eighth grade syndrome

Kaga: Socipathy, extreme ambition

Horo: Extreme ambition

Yaku: Scopophobia, extreme ambition

Homu: The duel, extreme ambition

Meka: Extreme ambition

Itachi: High pride

Hojiro: Low selfsteem

Uekiya: Prosopopoeia

Sakura: Cardiomyopathy

Gema: Antisocial personality disorder, Nomophobia

Ryuto: Nomophobia

Pippi: Nomophobia

Midori: Hyperactivity disorder, nomophobia, schizophrenia

Mai: Maladaptative Daydreaming, nomophobia, schediafilia

Delinquents: Traumatophobia

Kuroko: Constant Envy

Akane: Dissociative identity disorder

Aoi: One-eyed

Shiromi: Mythomaniac

Musume: Only child syndrome, Nomophobia

Kashiko: Xenophobia, nomophobia

Hana: Self hate, nomophobia

Kokoro: Traumaphobia, bulimia, nomophobia

Hoshiko: Sadistic disorder

THIS ARE JUST HEADCANNONS, althought, there are many that ARE canon, if you have any doubts you can ask me, as well if you want to know what does any of this sickness is or why did I gave it to that character.

See ya.

[ifeelbetter22nowurg0ne]

Prosopopoeia: a figure of speech in which an abstract thing is personified OR a figure of speech in which an imagined, absent, or dead person or thing is represented as speaking.

[proustian-dream]

To read is to understand, to question, to know, to forget, to erase, to deface, to repeat —that is to say, the endless prosopopoeia by which the dead are made to have a face and a voice which tells the allegory of their demise and allows us to apostrophize them in our turn. No degree of knowledge can ever stop this madness, for it is the madness of words.

Paul De Man, Shelley Disfigured

[nathanielthecurious]

5th century athens tumblr dashboard simulator

💪🏻 theoeikelos because you follow #athenian politics

just a reminder in advance of ostracism season: i know themistocles might not be your first choice to exile (he sure isnt mine!) but being realistic, the only people who have a chance of winning are themistocles and aristides. if you vote for some random guy you hate or write in a joke, thats as good as voting for aristides and we cant take that risk. please please please vote themistocles

#athenian politics #themistocles #aristides

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hey guys should i go knock the penises of the herms i think it would be really funny

🌌 your-fave-is-aeolic follow

this is probably the unmixed wine talking but yes, yes you should

🏛 generation-of-leaves follow

It makes me so sad to see how this website glorifies impiety against the city and the gods. I have hope that you will find your way back to timē.

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lmao i always forget there's a cult of hermes side of tumblr

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guys ive been looking at that most tragic character poll and honestly i think that the antigone side is using bots to vote. the vote count is going up by 100 every few seconds, who even likes antigone?? all i remember about that play is that my teacher made me write prosopopoeiae based on it

#also its just suspicious to see so many antigone votes on the new music enjoyers website #choregos shut up

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finally finished painting this today, im really happy with how it turned out!

like all my other projects, this is for sale at my etsy store! support metic artists :)

#art #artistsontumblr #redfigure #vasepainting #oenochoe #my art

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reblogging again because we can not let antigone lose to a character best known from a fucking EURIPIDES play! medea isnt even that tragic she's just evil

#tragedy agon #antigone

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i keep getting s*cratics following me so i guess i havent been clear enough on here: i do not support oligarchy, terrorism, or corrupting the youth and if you do then i kindly suggest that you unfollow me and also go to the fucking crows

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#sicily #lilybaeum #bucolic #bucolic aesthetic #shepherd aesthetic #selinous #magna graecia #apoikia

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[miraxth523]

2023/12/7

[psyxxchic]

D̵̥͈̚o̸͚͑ ̸̧͕͌̿y̸̫̝͠ô̶̞̈u̷̧͐ ̵̡̟̔̂w̴̝̔̐a̸̮͛̑n̴̢͙̈͘t̸̢̳͂ ̵̨̟̈́̀t̸̺͒õ̶͇͌ ̸̪́͘k̶̗̈́̕n̷̝̒ǫ̷̟̽̕w̴̧̄͛ ̷̜̞́͋h̶̦͛̇o̴̹̾̕w̶̞͚̅ ̷̞̮͊y̸̠̯̑o̶͋ͅu̷̜̖͌̑'̷̞̀r̶̩͘͠e̸̹̲͂ ̴͎̝̒̏g̶̙̐̄o̸̥͋̽i̶͔̊n̶͇͍̉͋g̴̝̀̽ ̵͋͜ṭ̴͘ȍ̵̢͆ ̶̻͉͋͝d̵̡̊͂i̴͚̓e̷̟͕͝?̶̹̠͗̏

Do you really?

Art by the wonderful amazing incredible @d-d-disgusting who brought this creep concept to life for me. Info on them under the cut

This is Iskim, the manifestation of Belle's combined domains and one of her (currently extremely latent) forms. They're a big ol melanistic fallow deer (anywhere from 6'-20' tall at the shoulder) with giant golden antlers and a fused double skull for a head, both of which can talk either independently or simultaneously, but they're they same entity no matter which is speaking. Iskim(a Sumerian word for 'omen') is neither friendly or unfriendly, good or evil, chaotic or lawful, sitting very firmly in neutral territory. Creation exists, destruction exists, the cycle exists without leaning in any moral direction about it and so do they. They can tell you your fate but you really probably do not want them to.

Symbology-wise, they're represented by an eclipse rather than Belle's usual sun motif. They appear typically when she's incapacitated in some way and unable to manifest in one of her other chosen forms. Though again they're not unfriendly, they are extremely devoid of any kind of human affectation that Belle usually employs and that makes them pretty dangerous by default. Destruction is also MUCH more balanced with creation in them, whereas Belle works pretty hard to suppress the aspects of that domain in her day to day - on the one hand, not as many wild mood shifts to contend with, but on the other hand much much more likely to employ those aspects as they see fit.

This isn't all super relevant to anyone else BUT I'm adding them to the character sandbox in my mind and wanted to share some cool ass art w a little backstory.

[shekharnair]

a.i. text or a.i. prosopopoeia or the clairsentient episodes (snehal r. nair/shekhar nair) is about the dichotomy and great divide between the future perceived atheistic existentialism against acknowledgement of existence of Divine. There is a large undiscovered space in which a play of supernatural events take place and it is rendered in all of its surrealistic and fantastical vagueness with text medium. snehal nair. 2021 april 7 to 9th.

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ai text 113. (the advent of a species) mobius3. for avsknd by snehalrnair. this artificial intelligence text 113 is in continuation to earlier episodes. Time in the mobius theory beginning with ai text 60-100 somewhere and then on ai text dialesque is about Planned Time. Even on the Intelligence's auto pilot flight or walk along the mobius strip of the script, it cannot go wrong, the planned time. The future is safe therefore if moving within God's very nature and script. The Present is Not a Constant. It constantly moment by moment walks step by step and is moving into the future. Any person or nature itself is free to do anything it wants within the sane confines of the width of the Mobius strip planned time. If the Present is moving into the future each moment; is not Constant; and therefore can be represented as Infinity. Each moment our bodies are going into the future and our minds leafing through the pages of time. (past and future and the present being; - Existence and situation, circumstance and imagination which far surpasses the limits of perception of what is beyond  scientific evidence and or philosophical explanation of things as they are (Dasein) [german das-ein for things as they are or astame astu [sanscrit]). snehalrnair.2022.10.21.oct21.2022.snehalrnair.snehal radhakrishnan nair.2022.21.oct.

[egorokku]

a beautiful baby girl named Prosopopoeia

[prosoppy-opoeia]

Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII (Video Game 1997), Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Zack Fair/Cloud Strife, Zack Fair & Cloud Strife Characters: Cloud Strife, Zack Fair, Kunsel (Compilation of FFVII), Angeal Hewley Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Mutual Pining, Lack of Communication, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Non-Traditional Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Zack Fair, Beta Cloud Strife, implications of dub-con, as it usually applies in abo, Internal Conflict, trojan horse-ing in the love and care of one (1) zack fair under the guise of pure smut, Feral Behavior, Begging, Desperation, Overstimulation, Knotting, neck fixation, Mutual Masturbation, Intercrural Sex, Rimming, Anal Sex, Not Beta Read Summary:

Cloud Strife always knew his crush on his best friend was a hopeless one.

He knew that even if by some stroke of luck Zack actually liked him back, despite the fact that he was loved by so many, that he was so kind, that he was Zack and Cloud was… Well, himself, it would be a moot point; when it came to an alpha and a beta...

Suffice to say, Cloud could never be what Zack needed.

Besides, it’s not like an alpha would willingly choose a beta.

Right?

Right.

Now, if only someone had told Zack that.