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4月10日 Schemes and TropesSchemes
Enallage: Any grammatical mistake used for rhetorical effect.
"We was robbed!" ~Joe Jacobs
"You pays your money, then you takes your choice." ~Punch Mag
Hyperbaton: Unusual word order.
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." ~Winston Churchhill
Asyndeton: Omission of a conjuction ("and," "but," "or").
"I have spoken. You have heard, you know the facts, now give your decision." ~Aristotle
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." ~1 Cor 13:13
Onamaton: Intentional use of a sentence fragment.
"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" ~T.S. Eliot
Poloptyton: Use of the same root word in different grammatical forms.
"Few men speak humbly about humility, chastely about chastity, or skeptically about skepticism. ~Pascal
Polysyndeton: Using more conjunctions than is conventional.
"When you are old and gray and full of sleep / And nodding by the fire, take down this book." ~Yeats
"Not snow, nor rain, nor heat, not night keeps them from accomplishing their courses with all speed." ~Herodotus
Isocolon: Use of structures parallel in grammatical structure and length.
"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?" ~Shakespeare, MOV
Antithesis: Use of parallel structures to highlight contrasting meanings.
"In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons ~Herodotus
Epizeuxis: Immediate repetition of a word or phrase.
"O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon." ~Milton
Anaphora: Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses.
"Why should white people be running all the stores in our community? Why should white people be running the banks of our community? Why should the economy of our community be in the hands of the white man? ~Martin Luther King Jr.
Tropes
Metaphor/Simile: A comparison between two unlike things. A simile uses "like" or "as," whereas in metaphor the comparison is implied.
Metonymy: Using something near a thing to refer to the thing iteself.
"Neither bell, book, nor candle will hold me back." ~Shakespeare
Synecdoche: Using a part to refer to the whole.
"A hungry stomach has no ears." ~La Fontaine
Hyperbole: Using exaggeration for rhetorical effect.
"She had hair the size of Dallas." ~Molly Ivins
Litotes: Using understatement for rhetorical effect.
"It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain." ~J.D. Salinger
Rhetorical Question: Asking a question for rhetorical effect, not because the writer expects an answer.
"After such knowledge, what forgiveness? ~T.S. Eliot
Irony: Using a word to convey the opposite of its literal meaning: "Yeah, right."
These schemes and tropes were provided by my Creative Non-Fiction Writing teacher Ms. Monika Shehi. 4月1日 April Fool's DayI am gonna share with you guys a piece I wrote for The Gamecock for April Fool's Day. I am not copying and pasting this one from the website because for some reason on the web edition of the article they didn't use two different font sizes, which is a key part of the article. Plus they made a mistake and didn't even publish this one under my name on the website version and the print version! Also I have decided to make the blog version of this article stylized with different font colors, styles, and sizes (I may have gotten a little carried away....lol). See if you can find the hidden April Fool's Day message. For anyone new to my blog this blog is a joke blog and I am not in any way being serious about anything said within this blog.
Yes, Gamecock readers, a moment that will go down in USC history will take place today. This is a moment of great significance and if you don’t have a clue to what I am talking about I must ask – Where have you been? If you don’t recall anything then you haven’t been paying much attention to reality. This event is the single most important event happening at USC this semester, possibly in USC’s existence.
The event is the boarding of a bus. The bus is leaving soon and if you are wise you will board so that you can escape the taunts of April. Don’t be left behind to let April bully you like the rest of the fools staying behind. Rise up and get ready for a journey. Be aware that this is the moment you have been waiting for. The bus is departing from the bus stop in front of the nursing building. But wait you must prepare for the trip and this article is your guide.
Begin by looking for a bunch of things to be happy about and don’t let yourself be incoherent of what is happening around you. Soon you will be able to take that ball and dribble. Soon you will learn how to speak intelligently. Soon you will be able to feel the way you want. Soon you will be able to sing beautifully. Soon you will be what you want to be. If you want it bad enough that is. If you are ready for the place the magical bus is going to take you. If you are ready to run down the street in your spiritual underwear. If you are ready to run to the mountaintops and scream, "I am a crazed unstoppable platypus!"
Work with what you have. Work with what you don’t have. Tell that cat bandit in the night, "I’m not afraid of you!" Tell that fog lingering outside your window at night that you noticed it watching you! Tell the microscopic bugs on your skin that always indulge in laughter at your expense to get off!
Yeah that’s right, you notice the pattern. You know what is going on, and you will not go quietly. Let everyone know what you have noticed, and spare no one from your enlightened mind. Big fish eat little fish, and, from their thumbs, aliens grow humans for lunch. And that is the circle of life my friends! It is all about listening. You’ve got to listen, and then the great God of Idaho will let you in on the secrets.
The bus of the enlightened souls of parallel earth will be departing shortly. You should start heading towards the bus stop while you read this.
Don’t let these days of enlarged emotional wounds caused by the gravitational pull of the moon bring you down. Speak and let others eat those words of coherence and wisdom. Learn to spell out what others fail to hear. Live for something that is beckoning for a taste of your snot from the 8th dimension.
Don’t miss out on this trip. If you do miss the bus it will be something that you will regret the whole time you experience your father’s life. Just ask yourself – What is it that you actually want? Let the alien in your head tell you something that makes sense. You were a butterfly just last year and you should remember that. Instead you just keep falling farther and farther down the hole that Sigmund Freud said was the location of your mother’s ego. Why do you want to search for your mother’s ego? Leave it alone. It told me last week it was tired of you anyway.
Approaching last call for the bus that leads to human salvation! Don’t be a stupid person. Come another minute and you will be left behind to deal with all the robots disguised as humans that are ready to eat you. Run! Run and catch the bus while there is still time! You were dead inside your body the other day from the thought thieves attacking you weren’t you? Don’t you want to be liberated from such attacks? We in the magical bus can save you. You’ve got to escape this place. Any moment now the humans that are really robots are going to reveal themselves and are going to start chasing you! Who wants that? April is here my friends and the bus is leaving. Come with us and leave behind all the unenlightened Fools! 3月30日 The Coral: Magic and Medicine The Coral's Magic and Medicine released early 2004, while not being the latest release from The Coral, it is in my opinion the best of their four releases. This British rock band writes music that could be described as psychedelic-pirate-rock that is perhaps partly influenced by the birthplace of the band; a seaside town called Hoylake in Northwest England. The music sounds like a blend of 90's alternative rock, 60's rock, drugs, sea chanteys, and experiences had on some uninhabited island in the Caribbean.
Kick back in your sandals and cruise wear on the top deck of a cruise ship with the color white prodominantly being the color surrounding you. Drink your Mojito Cocktail while feeling a cool ocean breeze hit you. Notice a young teenager walk by you that has hippie hair and a beard along with a hemp necklace, but who doesn't seem to have a hippie mentality or ideal. Then suddenly you notice a pirate ship off in the distance that makes you wonder whether it is a boat made to look like a pirate ship, or if it is an actual pirate ship. Then in the midst of your confusion a band on the deck begins to play a song that starts out with a ska-like guitar riff and then breaks into a more alternative-rocky sound that is catchy but not poppy. At this moment if you had ever listened to The Coral they would, for a spilt second, pop into your head.
The band's choice to call itself The Coral to me is a really great choice. There name really fits their sound. And while I have described the main musical themes of the band, they have a fairly diverse collection of musical influences. There are funk, blues, ska, folk, surf, pop, merseybeat, and electronic influences that can be heard throughout the album on top of the other influences mentioned above. Yes, this sextet is in no way lacking in the musical influence department. The Coral is no doubt an orignial and diversely influenced band.
Magic and Medicine is an enjoyable album that takes you on a psychedelic journey comprised of pirates, oceans, rock history, philosophy, and Bob Dylan. The Coral is most definitely a band one should not let sneak by right under their nose. Pick this album up and you will find yourself singing the slighty-poppy but emotionally deep lyrics of "Don't Think You're The First" in no time. 3月20日 TranshumanismTranshumanism
Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of new sciences and technologies to increase human physical and cognitive abilities and improve the human condition in unprecedented ways. I am most absolutely, with all my mind and soul, a transhumanist. Are you? It is our destiny to transform ourselves into something magnificent; something beyond human; something that is currently unimaginable; something that in it's end is Godlike. 3月15日 A Reponse to Rebecca Blevins Faery's Essay - "On the Possibilities of the Essay: A Meditation"This is a response that I wrote to an essay for my Advanced Creative Non-Fiction Writing Class – writers or those at least somewhat interested in writing should enjoy reading this.
I enjoyed the center portion of Faery's cut up essay that talked about essays. I think from reading this essay I understand now more than ever what you have been trying to drill into our heads. I've always enjoyed writings that are written from a highly personal perspective; particulary when the writer tries to introduce his or her seemingly indescribable state of consciousness, but I never quite came to a detailed decision or understanding of why I felt that way. Also, when I attended grade school, I always had a nagging feeling. I witnessed teachers teaching us students a "universal" structure of the essay that seemed to create this general umbrella that we were required to stand on, which then caused many to abandon any hopes of discovering their personal voice that was left underneath the umbrella. We were taught - not to look for a personal voice but to mold what little of our own voice we had discovered into the acceptable and orthodox standard.
And while detached, strictly structured, and impersonal writing can sound good (and of course it has it's many practical purposes), the unchained creative essay needs to be applied where it belongs. I share Faery's desire to witness the adopting of the essay of personal perspective and voice by educational institutions. Often when reading a piece someone has written I want to know about the writer themselves just as much as the topic. I want to know how THEY relate to the topic; how THEY are connected; how the subject matter intertwines with THEIR being.
I have noticed, for example, when reading the blackboard responses of others, sometimes they just aren't personal enough. Sometimes the response is just an analyzation or summary of the work, and the responder never mentions, or scarcely or generically mentions, how the essay made them feel; how it relates to them; the personal experience they had when reading the story. I myself am guilty of this probably just as much as the rest of the class. I find it interesting though how it seems there is this tendency to put oneself on impersonal writing autopilot when one is writing with their lazy hand. It must be due to how we were taught to write growing up.
I am glad I read this essay. It has evoked within me a new conscious sense of the importance of the creative non-fiction essay. An importance though that I, and any others, may not fully and truly understand until the eventual spread of the unchained creative non-fiction essay helps transform our rigid language. Thank you Rebecca Blevins Faery and Ms. Monika Shehi :). 3月9日 Quote For Today
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~Mother Teresa 3月8日 Stern Sued
Howard Stern is being sued by CBS – his former place of employment that syndicated his radio show over the airwaves for twenty years. Suspicions can't help but begin to form when considering the motivation of CBS in doing such a thing. CBS doesn't look to have much of a case. On the same day that reports came out concerning the money CBS has lost after loosing Stern to Sirrius, CBS filed a lawsuit against Stern. It appears as though CBS may have wanted to direct the attention of their investors away from the reports of their finiancial loses, and towards what could be looked at by investors as a finiancial solution that provides reason to remain a shareholder with CBS. CBS is attempting to fill their money hole by suing Stern. CBS is suing for breach of contract and misappropriation. They are alleging that Stern, within the last 22 months of his contract, breached his contract willfully and repeatedly. Allegedly millions of dollars of CBS airtime were misappropriated by Stern for his own finiancial benefit. During his air time he gave clever hints towards his moving to Sirrius, he didn't however ever mention the Sirrius name. He is also being called a fraud by CBS. CBS claims Howard concealed interest in Sirrius stock, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, while promoting Sirrius. Stern never once mentioned the Sirrius name. Stern also is a person who talks about what is going on in his life when he is on the air. I think he was probably within the legal guidelines by never mentioning the Sirrius name. I think it does depend though on how advertise-esque and subtle Stern's covert promotions for Sirrius were. It appears to me that Howard Stern is innocent here and this is just a business strategy being pulled by CBS. This company doesn't want to take a bigger hit from Stern leaving them in the dust than they already have. This, in my opinion, looks to be an attempt by CBS to hold on to it's shareholders. 3月6日 Quote For Today
You can't depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus. ~Mark Twain 3月2日 Album PicksWell I am not writing album reviews for The Gamecock anymore. I am still writing stories but not album reviews. Someone had been writing them already before me for a while and they want him to write them instead. Eh politics. I still though wil be doing album reviews.......just not every week. And when my gamecock articles have worldly content rather than local campus content I will post them. 2月24日 The BetThursday, February 23, 2006
A bet between two nemeses took place on this day. The two nemeses: Charley Aldave and David Bialousow. Both are roommates of mine.
The Bet
David must swim forty laps within 1 hour and 30 minutes.
The Rules
Feet can't touch the floor of the pool at anytime.
A forward motion, no matter how slow, must be maintained at all times.
No weight can be rested on the pool walls The Stakes
30 dollars Blatt Pool - USC Campus 7:30 PM
 David jumping into the pool.
Here is a video of David at the beginning of his laps.
Look at the determination on that face!
The Results of the Bet David surprised us all and finished the laps in 20 minutes, and his pace never slowed down the whole time. Charley feels he was hustled. In the end he only bought David a 12-pack of beer and a X-large pizza. David, in his kindness, accepted.
Here he is after his crushing victory. The loser is on the far left. 2月20日 Damien Rice: O [IMPORT] This week's album pick, released in 2005, is a collection of beautiful minimalist folk music created by Dublin, Ireland's Damien Rice and band. It is an import CD that is the combination of Rice's O (2003) and B-Sides (2004) albums. At a price tag roughly around 25 dollars this double CD is well worth the buy for anyone who doesn't own O or B-Sides, but if you already own one just buy the other. Different versions of all the songs on B-Sides are present on this album, but your not missing much.
Damien Rice will make you feel like your at a poetry reading night in a coffee shop, but your sitting by yourself while you passionately inhale the aromas of the coffee you were just served, and you then engage in the collective snapping of fingers, like that of the Beatniks from the 50's and 60's, at the end of an artist's reading of their poetry.
This music is minimalist with nothing complicated or even particularly original about it, except Damien Rice's voice. His voice has a good and original sound, and his co-vocalist Lisa Hannigan is very enjoyable to listen to. And when the two sing together it is bliss. The acoustic guitar is simple, but is nothing to complain about. The drums are simple as well, and it actually wouldn't hurt for the drums to be a little more complex. The violin on this album helps make the CD. Without the violin this album wouldn't be near as good. The violin adds to Rice's voice very well, and without it the dramatics created by Rice's voice wouldn't be multiplied times two.
While a few of the songs on this album are actually somewhat a drag, and are boring and depressing, there is alot of good music to be had here. Judging from Rice's music he doesn't seem to be the happiest of people, but some of his depression, sorrow, and angst is translated into good songs. Especially his more angry songs like Cheers Darling and Volcano. A big handful of the sadder and more depressing songs on the album explode into a passionate loud whine, which makes listening to the first half of the song well worth it for the patient minded.
There is no doubt that the acclaim that has followed Damien Rice's CD releases are not overrated. With a voice expressive of angst, good and simple acoustic guitar, a solid female co-vocalist, beautiful violin, and simple drum beats, all pulled off beautifully, Damien Rice and band are an act to follow. Add this CD to your collection and pull it out when your coffee-loving–poetry-writing–small-glasses-wearing–bongo-playing–Beatnik-wannabe friends come over. |
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