#literary techniques

[chrysalis-the-butterfly]

The Use of Anadiplosis in the Sonic Movie

“Anadiplosis” is just a fancy term for when the word used at the end of a sentence or clause is used again at the beginning of the next sentence or clause.  

“Glad You Came” by The Wanted has a good example of this technique just before the chorus.  

There’s another example in the Sonic movie that makes me weirdly happy.  It’s when Sonic is in Tom’s garage, telling himself to use a ring to go to the Mushroom Planet.  

“You’re going to a safe world.  

A nice safe world full of mushrooms.  

Mushrooms that’ll be your only friends...”  

I like this quote.  It’s got a good rhythm.  The repetition shows us how much effort it’s taking for Sonic to convince himself to do this.  And the way it tails off emphasises Sonic’s greatest fear - that is, being friendless forever.  

It’s small, but it’s good.  I hope we get more anadiplosis in the sequel.  

#sonic the hedgehog #sonic movie #sonic cinematic universe #sonic wachowski #literary techniques #anadiplosis #sonic movie 2

[lazulifate]

How is it that just adding this "~" to the end of a sentence changes it entirely?!?!

"You've got mail" a simple notification that you have infact received mail!

"You've got mail~" a poor attempt at flirting by your local mail courrier?

What is this?!?!

#literary techniques #confused af #the hell is this shit #flirtatious mail person

[grasshoppericulum]

Using Repetition:

(This is useful both for writing and essays for school I suppose, although forgive if this seems obvious)

So, what repetition does, essentially, is make things bigger. More kapow! More pizzazz! More shwoom! It increases everything! Emotion, feeling, the effect of the senses, immersion, how realistic a character is, repetition helps with all of that!

Take pain for an example:

Sentence 1: She stubbed her toe against the edge of the table and hissed, "Ow!"

Sentence 2: She stubbed her toe against the edge of the table and hissed, "Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!"

Sentence 2 seems far more realistic in terms of an emotional reaction to stubbing your toe, like a reaffirmation of 'I've stubbed my toe! This hurts! Ouch!", it also has more emotion, full stop. However, what it additionally does is make the toe stub in sentence 2 sound more painful. If you stub your toe, hiss through your teeth and say 'ow' once before moving on, you reaction to a more painful incident would probably be to say 'ow' multiple times. Or to mutter a bunch of expletives. Depends.

How about another example?

Sentence 1: He fell to the ground crying, until his eyes ran dry. He was left utterly drained.

Sentence 2: He fell to the ground, crying and crying and crying, until his eyes ran dry. He was left utterly drained.

Which conveys more anguish? Sentence 2! He seems far more desperately sad in sentence 2 than in sentence 1.

Repetition enhances the emotions or feelings you want to convey! In dialogue, it adds a realistic indication of nerves or anger, or even happiness if whole phrases are repeated excitedly; it is truly a very useful tool to spice up some writing in a moment of high emotion!

#writing #writing tips #writing ideas #writing prompts #essay #essaytips #essay tips #essay advice #writing advice #writeblr #studyblr #repetition #use repetition! #literary techniques #literature #school #English #emotional #characters #character tips #add wonder to your words! #embellish your emotion! #spice up your speech!

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Literary critique pet peeve (that I think has mostly spilled over from fandom culture):

Calling a piece of carefully constructed foreshadowing “Spoiling” the story.

It was brought to the forefront of my attention by the title of this video: “How the Music Spoils Sweeney Todd (And why that’s a good thing).”

If it’s a good thing, it not spoiling. To spoil something means to ruin it. If giving your audience hints as to what’s coming up in the future -- especially if the audience can tell what’s coming, but the characters within the story can’t -- and it makes your story stronger and more exciting, then that, my sweet little periwinkles, is what we call “Foreshadowing” (in other words, forces building up to the future climax cast a shadow over what’s happening in the story’s present action).

And I blame this confusion between “Spoiling” and “Foreshadowing” for media franchises pulling the rug out from under their audiences simply for the sake of a “Twist” ending -- as what happened to Daenerys in Game of Thrones and Rey in Star Wars: the Rise of Skywalker.

BTW, I really like the YouTube channel that video’s from (unfortunate title notwithstanding). They critique movies and video games through the musical scores. I have very low musical intelligence, but I like learning about it, and learning to pay attention to it.

#storytelling #foreshadowing #literary techniques #Game of Thrones #Star Wars #queue

[suddenchange-s]

I AM A LIVING, BREATHING OXYMORON

illogically logical

optimistic pessimist

consistently inconsistent

and I love it.

#p #oxymoron #literary techniques #I always come back to consistently inconsistent #i suppose defeatist as well #i don't exactly think that's a bad thing all the time #there are some battles that just aren't worth fighting #if that's defeatist #then u rite

[emptyjunior]

help! I’m going honest to god insane, can anyone remember the literary technique to rephrase an idiom? Like to change “paint the town red” to “paint the town beige”. I am going insane. oh i already wrote that. somebody help my brain feels like eating a pot of chili with peeps in it

#writing #literary techniques #english #help

[cryboycowboy]

i am like my heartbeat

chaotic and unpredictable

#behavior #relatable #relatable textpost #heart #love #heart problems #irregular #irregular heartbeat #metaphor #simile #literary techniques #heartbeat #original post #funny #not supposed to be #poetic #my heart really does beat very chaotically #its really annoying #it never beats regular beat #s #they are always all over the place

[worstjourney]

Nearsighted Wright discovered Scott's tent how crazy is that? The story of Terra Nova is like a good script but this particular part is something that critics would've nitpicked if it were actually a script.

As someone who has spent a lot of time learning about screenwriting, and reading the expedition’s primary documents, all I have to say in response is: Do you have any idea how much of this sort of thing there is?!  It’s positively uncanny, and has inspired two writing ideas, as yet unpursued:

1. An essay delineating the ways in which Scott’s Last Expedition aligns with the ideal tragic structure as detailed in Aristotle’s Poetics

2. A science fiction short story in which a more narratively satisfying alternate-history version of a forgettable historical expedition escapes from an author’s mind and becomes Actual HistoryTM

… because clearly what I need to be doing is more writing that isn’t the writing I NEED to be doing.

Don’t even get me started on the amount of hamfisted, obvious, rookie-writer foreshadowing there is, too … 

#drawing #robert falcon scott #literary techniques #simulation theory #scott expedition #terra nova expedition #foreshadowing #silas wright #charles seymour wright #screenwriting #stranger than fiction

[psychoeducator]

15 Types of Wordplay in Poetry - HubPages

Wordplay never gets old...

Wordplay is also known as verbal play or play-on-words is a literary technique used in both prose and poetry.

Playing with words is a technique of using words in a way that is light-hearted or funny.

#poetry lesson #poetry #literary techniques

[feelinkeeli]

Y'all do realize the reason Obi-wan didn't put together Dooku=Tyranus during AOTC because he overheard Nute Gunray asking after Padme's assassination.

That it was part of the deal for Nute Gunray and the Trade Federation to join in with the Seperatists to create a droid army to go to war with the Republic.

And Dooku says during the meeting that they'll basically blitz krieg the Republic into submission because the Republic doesn't have an army.

Jango Fett is a bounty hunter which by Star Wars terms means Fett was a mecenary/bodyguard/hitman/independent contractor. One that had a good reputation (regardless of legality) for his work.

It's pretty damn reasonable for Obi-wan and others to assume the assassination contract and clone contract were two completely unrelated jobs Jango took. Reasonable to assume Jango was playing both sides and ran to Geonosis for protection because that's where the person who hired him for the assassination contract was (Nute Gunray).

There's no obvious connection between Jango and Dooku for Obi-wan to see at this point.

The connection seems obvious to us because we, as the audience, know more than the characters do. We see the trap being sprung and the inevitable tragedy approaching.

#star wars #obiwan kenobi #jango fett #count dooku #this is dramatic irony - in the literary technique definition #we know more than the characters do #it's upsetting and frustrating on purpose #the PT is a tragedy #the audience knowing more than the characters do gives us hope that they might avoid tragedy of they'd just learn what we knew

[author-james-raisanen]

Anime Closing Themes

I know anime gets some flak about how their opening themes are super energetic and then the ending theme is super chill. There’s a reason for that.

Chill Ending Themes are the Blank Spaces of anime.

When the story is told effectively, a serene ending theme is the perfect way to absorb and reflect on what you just experienced emotionally. Then, as in binge-watching, the beginning theme helps you get back in the mood for what’s to come.

#anime #closing themes #literary techniques #blank spaces #poetic techniques #poetry

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

12 excellent habits from the great Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy. As with all the best advice, Tolstoy’s habits apply to modern life, particularly in the age of constant Internet distraction. All writers can benefit from this list, with added commentary from Diana Wink. 

#leo tolstoy #russian writer #writing habits #writing advice #writing technique #writing routine #writing #writer #author #literature #literary #writeblr #habits #good habits #langblr #russian

[ladykyrin]

I watched the Killing Eve finale and if I wasn’t thoroughly invested in my OFMD fic I would absolutely be writing a fic that starts at the end of season 3 and just has Eve and Villanelle do an epic road trip across the world to pick off the Twelve one by one.

And I’d give the Twelve an actual motivation because, you know, that’s how villains are supposed to work, though Laura Neal apparently never got the memo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#killing eve #killing eve spoilers #ke spoilers #I am full of boiling rage and incredulity #like I see the parallels. I see the symbolism. my problem isn’t that the symbols and paralleism and literary techniques aren’t there #it’s that they’re fucking WRONG. #literally turning Villanelle into an angel with the Sun card and the wings of blood and the light streaming through the water?? #FUCKED. the whole point is that villanelle isn’t an angel and eve LOVES HER FOR THAT #killing her in the water to symbolize villanelle’s ‘true baptism’ or what FUCKing ever? stupid as fuck #what plot purpose did Pamela serve? #what plot purpose did Yusuf serve beyond being a ridiculously convenient source of technical support when needed? #what purpose did killing Konstantin serve? #what was Carolyn’s fucking motivation behind killing Villanelle (but NOT Eve apparently??) #we never got to see Villaneve kill together #we never got the Twelve’s motivation or even their FACES #and you mean to tell me that these brilliant untraceable criminal masterminds would EVER all convene in one place for ANY reason???? #jesus fuck this season was overflowing with some of the laziest TV writing I’ve EVER seen

[zurich-snows]

Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-inducing Technique in Certain Poems and Its Literary Significance. Edward Douglas Snyder. Octagon Books, 1971, University of California

#Edward Douglas Snyder #Hypnotic Poetry #Trance #Octagon Books #1971 #Hypnotic Poetry: A Study of Trance-inducing Technique in Certain Poems and Its Literary Significance #Books #Hypnosis #Poetry

[galadhremmin]

well i’m certainly experiencing emotions about this paper

#i can't believe tolkien hit me with what HE identifies as longing for god and i identify in fact quite differently #evil!!! ALSO i resent being able to spot the literary techniques even more than i already did now #anddddd they stillllll workkkk HGRAAHGG

[proteuus]

I am literally the nicest person ever when it comes to reading other peoples' writing it's usually so easy for me to pick out things I like but oh my god?? I just read the worst two short stories I've read in my life for my fiction workshop class???

#i read the first one like three days ago and I'm glad i read it ahead of time #because it took me three days to think of nice things to say abt it #i just read the second one and it is bafflingly even worse than the first #it's advanced fiction workshop it's a 400 level class so i guess everyone wants to write literary fiction #but there's a reason *i* don't write litfic where jack shit nothing happens because it's SO hard to do well #at least the first guy had good technique. this second story i read is shockingly bad just on a mechanical level #I'm literally shocked #i was really intimidated going into this class but actually i am totally fine