#literary device

[novlr]

[mirrored-realities1]

Not to discount from the fucking miracle of science that just happened, but after years of the classic literature discourse of "how would the ancient technology outperform modern technology," Artemis II finally gives us writers a plausible explanation. In 1969 we put a man on the moon with less than a megabyte of RAM. In the year of our lord 2026, the laptop on the Artemis shuttle had 2 versions of Microsoft Outlook open at once and niether of the bitches worked. Ancient tech outperforms modern tech because nowadays things are shit by design.

Not to take away from the generational achievement that just happened. But it's just funny that Microsoft managed to put the third shittiest piece of tech into space this century, after Boeing's starliner cluster fuck and the Abomination (Telsa car).

[greekmythcomix]

✨What is an epic/Homeric Simile?✨

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Also a video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lQqEK6-Cyt0

[amcarterwrites]

Practical Advice on Literary Device

- Fanfiction vs. Literature: The Shame of Low Art Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024 by A.M. Carter Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik The other day, my online buddy—let’s call her Lola—created a group chat for me and another of her friends. We hit it off beautifully until I suggested we move the discussion into a private fandom-based discord server. Fandom, noun, the fans of a particular person, team, fictional series, etc. regarded collectively as a community or subculture. Her immediate response was,

I'm so excited to share my first blog post on Practical Advice on Literary Device for Beginner Writers! I'll post every other Wednesday and hope it helps you drop the shame on your creative writing journey.

[semperardens-juli]

"The soliloquies, as well as the symbolism of his deformity, cast Richard as the vice figure of the drama: audience love to hate him."

on Renaissance --- William Shakespeare: Perils of Power from The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained, James Canton

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[lokilysolbitch]

My new fixation is bad poetry

and its making me think about how to define art and poetry and what makes poetry good etc but I can't go back and find my sophomore english teacher and rant about it so I'm making it yalls problem. but mr c if ur in here pls read also what do you mean thats one way to skin a hamster. thats not how it goes what are you talking abou

first of all, ive finally figured out my current definition of art: records of the human experience or just experience in general. so yes paintings and poetry but ALSO tiktoks or a decorated room. idc if you think its stupid there are remnants and references to human experiences ALL OVER those. so basically if it left a mark at any point, its art. maybe not always "good" or skilled, deep, etc but it is art (to me)

secondly, what is poetry? the same sophomore english teacher asked this at the beginning of a unit and the class was struggling. every time we listed a requirement for poetry he went "is that necessary though?". "it has to rhyme" "does it?" "it has to be deep" "does it" "it needs to have words!" ".....does it?" man idk i was 15 and sleep deprived

but now im less sleep deprived and i have an answer. I would consider poetry a spectrum (but not necessarily flexible. i wouldn't say you have to bend it's meaning to make something fit) but also playing with language, to be playful with it and have fun with it, to use it as a toy in a way. using language in a way different from its intended use. so writing a personal narrative about a deep topic? not poetry. maybe you had fun with it but thats still its main use. to make words rhyme, to alliterate, to use words just plain wrong? probably poetry. its still a spectrum. and im aware this means that saying something like "yew nork/glass fork" would count as a shitpost and poetry while "Ill love you and ill never stop loving you" doesnt and um i dont care i said what i said--

this would also mean most books and speeches would have little bits of poetry in there and i stand by that too. maybe the entire thing isnt poetry but bits of it could count. i came to this conclusion on the meaning of poetry because i saw too many "aesthetic" free verse poems that were just. tweets. you coulda just made it a sentence and posted it for free. there was no attempt to play with language. you just used it the way you were supposed to. its just a quote.

im definitely going to add more onto this about what i think poetry critics miss sometimes and why formal teaching of poetry is flawed but not all in one post bc its a lot. However i have one last concept to attempt to define. this one has always made me the angriest

GOOD VS BAD POETRY/ART

where do i even start. maybe we should just get rid of these terms completely and make people say what they mean. is it good or did he just use literary devices correctly. is it good or is it genuine. is it good or is it deep. is it good or is it entertaining. is it good or do you like it. is it good or is it popular. is it good or is it complex. is it good or is it creative.

ive been saying since i was i was maybe 12-13 that even though good does not have a solid stable meaning, there is still a sense of what good is. We know what its supposed to be. classical music, Edgar Allen Poe, Da Vinci are good. sure most people barely know or understand or care about these things other than one piece of work they can recall because they had to look at it in highschool that time and the teacher seemed to appreciate it. and we know that reality tv, messily hand drawn animals, and half assed near unintelligible tiktok skits are bad.

but....wait we like those though

ive come to the conclusion that while still shifting, "good"'s meaning in scholarly settings tends to come down to whatever those somethingth century european dudes and what the modern smart looking guys deemed intelligent. and in colloquial settings, what everyone likes.

many pretentious types will say rap is bad and the subject matter is crude and the same way im sure some old european guy would have said or has said traditional african music is too weird and primitive to be respectable.

now. i dont really listen to rap intentionally. if its in there its in there. I used to be pretentious and after changing i just never got too deep into it BUT. i listened to a Nicki Minaj song one time just to see and yeah it was not family friendly but dear god was it clever. the way she'd drop the most genius alliteration-personification-allegory-englishvocabword and then just keep it moving like im not gonna have to stop and ponder the seven layer reference to bedtime hanky panky. its smart. its creative. its complex. and so many rappers can write about the same topics over and over and still come back with a new way of phrasing it. its genuinely impressive

but so many still wouldn't consider it good.

the term good when it comes to art, while having somewhat of a meaning is still useless. make your own personal standards for what is important for you to see in art. its kind of silly for us to collectively decide "okay this art? we like it. this is good" and then go to a different community (age group, culture, race) and go "were going to show you the new gold standard for good! its what we liked! you dont do it like this?? then yours is bad!". historically thats never been a good move

what i find important with poetry (and by poetry i mostly mean song writing bc i dont even read poetry like that) tends to be "is it a poem? or a sentence/paragraph". everything other than that just has to do with my taste and what I prefer in the moment. and it goes the same for everyone else. there's no universal good or bad with art. its just what a dominant or culturally respected group of people said was important.

limericks are bad tho jesus told me/j

TL;DR: i think anything that records an experience is art. i think toying with language mostly makes it poetry, and i think its weird people create little boxes for good and bad and make everyone else adhere to it

[nopizzaaftermidnight]

[convivialdave]

“I swallowed a lot of aggression...along with a lot of pizzas”.  Dialogue from the movie, “Stripes”, a comedy from the early 1980′s starring John Candy [pictured], Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, and others.

The line quoted is an example of  Zeugma, a literary device intended to use a single word [in this case “swallowed”]  to refer to two or more different things.  It is a lovely tool little tool to keep in mind; use it to gain audience attention when developing a mood, character, or to add comedy or irony.