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I haven't blog properly in ages and, rather than make it up to you with something fantastic, I'm just going to give you a quick update and leave you with this a boring exercise.
University is keeping me busy and I'll be more busy next month when I do NaNoWriMo again. The plan is to write a fantasy-western but since I've never written fantasy or western before, nor read any western and hardly read fantasy, I can't hope for much.
It's basically the story of a young, mood-based shapeshifter who goes on a quest to find his parents fighting in a war on the Frontier. Once I'm finished planning my plot I'll hopefully upload it and you can give me ideas for a title.
Now for the boring exercise:
Of the top of your head, give me examples of these literary techniques:
Alliteration: Ridiculous remixed rap (because the girl in the room opposite is playing obnoxiously loud, bad, music)
Irony: A hippy getting eaten by the animal it is trying to save
Metaphor: The lights were deafening
Oxymoron: fun-run
Paradox: 21 days since this sign was changed
Simile: Like starving wolves counting sheep we close our eyes, pretending to sleep. (Listening to the Alkaline Trio)
University is keeping me busy and I'll be more busy next month when I do NaNoWriMo again. The plan is to write a fantasy-western but since I've never written fantasy or western before, nor read any western and hardly read fantasy, I can't hope for much.
It's basically the story of a young, mood-based shapeshifter who goes on a quest to find his parents fighting in a war on the Frontier. Once I'm finished planning my plot I'll hopefully upload it and you can give me ideas for a title.
Now for the boring exercise:
Of the top of your head, give me examples of these literary techniques:
Alliteration: Ridiculous remixed rap (because the girl in the room opposite is playing obnoxiously loud, bad, music)
Irony: A hippy getting eaten by the animal it is trying to save
Metaphor: The lights were deafening
Oxymoron: fun-run
Paradox: 21 days since this sign was changed
Simile: Like starving wolves counting sheep we close our eyes, pretending to sleep. (Listening to the Alkaline Trio)
Good luck for NaNoWriMo! :)
ReplyDeleteI have uni exams until the 15th, so I'll probably be starting NaNo late this year.
(Well, I started on the 15th last year too, and still managed to finish on time but hopefully this year will be different because hopefully I will get a job.)
Whatever.
I like the oxymoron one. Running isn't fun. :P
What do you call an idiot that got into Oxford University? An Oxymoron!!!!
ReplyDeleteSorry, that was really, really bad.
That one isn't on her list: A pune, or play on words.
ReplyDeleteI've seen these so often this year in english studies.
ReplyDeleteWestern Fantasy? Try Dark Tower. Except don't, because it sucks.