Step One
I'm ready for learning because I've got my Chromebook charged and ready, I've eaten and have a drink bottle if I'm feeling dehydrated, I'm awake and ready to learn, and I'm paying attention.
Step Two
My learning goals for this lesson is to complete and write creative writing language features. By the end of the lesson, I should be able to write at least 14 different language features.
Step Three
To engage in this lesson I'll need my laptop, the 2020 pre-writing slides, and my blog.
Language Features
1. Epizeuxis
What it means
Epizeuxis is when you repeat a word immediately in the same context/with the same meaning. For example "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club." However, you don't wanna do it too often cause then it'll just look dumb. A more common one would be "Location, Location, Location." One that I made up is
2. Chiasmus
What it is
When you mirror the start of a sentence with the end. For example, JFK's famous quote "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." Another example is "We must write to be happy, to be happy we must write." One that I made up is "Humans will kill the land before the land kills humans." I think that works.
3. Isocolon
What it is
An Isocolon is when two clauses (a grammatical structure like a sentence or something else) that are grammatically similar. They are typically short and snappy such as "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," or "Roses are red, violets are blue." I created one that goes "Snow as white as feathers, blood as red as a 1B4."
4.Tricolon
What it is
Tricolon is when you create a series of 3 parallel words, clauses, or phrases that are all similar in structure/wording. For example "It's a bird! it's a plane! No, it's *Underdog!" or "The good, the bad, and the ugly." I decided to come up with "
5. Epistrophe
What it is
Epistrophe is when you end a sentence or paragraph with the same word. An example would be the following "When each clause has the same words at the end, that’s epistrophe. When you finish each paragraph with the same word, that’s epistrophe. Even when it’s a whole phrase or a whole sentence that you repeat, it’s still, providing the repetition comes at the end, epistrophe." or even "It was bad. It was really bad. The mess we were in was really, really bad." For my example, I drew from personal experience, "My sister's brownies were good. Like, really good. Like, and I cannot emphasize this enough, indescribably good."
6. Epanalepsis
What it is
Repetition of words or phrases with intervening words to set off the repetition. Possibly with a phrase used at both the beginning and end. For example, "Only the poor really know what it is to suffer; only the poor," or "Only I am capable of truly appreciating my sister's brownies, only I."
7.Antithesis
Antithesis is when two things are opposites i.e selflessness and selfishness, "he was good and she was bad," or "The two of them were like apples and oranges,"
8. Anadiplosis
The technique of using anadiplosis is using the end of the last sentence to begin the next sentence. Yoda does this by saying "Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to Suffering" or you could take this example; "Homework leads to achievement, achievement leads to education, and education leads to a career." I made up " Working out leads to hunger, hunger leads to getting up and making food, getting up and making food leads to yummy food to eat, yummy food to eat leads to a full belly."
9.Oxymoron
A figure of speech that's got those contradictory terms paired up. For example, you have "faith unfaithful kept him falsely true," in which the first part makes no sense, however, the second part does. This isn't the oxymoron, I'm just stating the first part makes no sense. You also have "The millionaire was poor," which also doesn't make sense, however, it is technically an oxymoron. Another one that I wrote is "she had many friends yet was lonely," wow. a poet. William Wordsworth better watch his back.
10. Anaphora
When you start each sentence with the same word you started within the sentence before. Most commonly used in speeches where the word/s repeated will often represent the main idea/theme. For example Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I have a dream" or "She came, she saw, she conquered." Mine is "The wind hollowed through the trees, the wind whistled through the leaves, the wind thrashed at the rocks, and still, the wind could not blow the world over,"
11. Consonance
Consonance is the technique in which the repetition of constants is in a rhythmic pattern. For example, "The pigeon went coo, the cow went moo, the baby went boo," or even "Claire was caught drinking beer at the fair." I came up with "She was eating brownies while waiting for the dowry,"
12. Onomatopeia
When using onomatopoeia you're using words that describe sounds such as "Bang!" or "the door let out a looooooooooong creak," or "The car crashed into the wall with a booming bang,"
13. Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds such as "The cart went to the market for a chance to barter" or "She went to the beach to go find a leach."
14. Personification
Personification is the process of giving an inanimate object (such as a rock) a personality and human features (such as naming it, talking to it, etc). "The thunder smiled like an old man," or possibly "The house had a monstrous smile," which is a reference to Monster House which is a 10/10 movie, would recommend.
What it means
Epizeuxis is when you repeat a word immediately in the same context/with the same meaning. For example "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club." However, you don't wanna do it too often cause then it'll just look dumb. A more common one would be "Location, Location, Location." One that I made up is
2. Chiasmus
What it is
When you mirror the start of a sentence with the end. For example, JFK's famous quote "Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind." Another example is "We must write to be happy, to be happy we must write." One that I made up is "Humans will kill the land before the land kills humans." I think that works.
3. Isocolon
What it is
An Isocolon is when two clauses (a grammatical structure like a sentence or something else) that are grammatically similar. They are typically short and snappy such as "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," or "Roses are red, violets are blue." I created one that goes "Snow as white as feathers, blood as red as a 1B4."
4.Tricolon
What it is
Tricolon is when you create a series of 3 parallel words, clauses, or phrases that are all similar in structure/wording. For example "It's a bird! it's a plane! No, it's *Underdog!" or "The good, the bad, and the ugly." I decided to come up with "
5. Epistrophe
What it is
Epistrophe is when you end a sentence or paragraph with the same word. An example would be the following "When each clause has the same words at the end, that’s epistrophe. When you finish each paragraph with the same word, that’s epistrophe. Even when it’s a whole phrase or a whole sentence that you repeat, it’s still, providing the repetition comes at the end, epistrophe." or even "It was bad. It was really bad. The mess we were in was really, really bad." For my example, I drew from personal experience, "My sister's brownies were good. Like, really good. Like, and I cannot emphasize this enough, indescribably good."
6. Epanalepsis
What it is
Repetition of words or phrases with intervening words to set off the repetition. Possibly with a phrase used at both the beginning and end. For example, "Only the poor really know what it is to suffer; only the poor," or "Only I am capable of truly appreciating my sister's brownies, only I."
7.Antithesis
Antithesis is when two things are opposites i.e selflessness and selfishness, "he was good and she was bad," or "The two of them were like apples and oranges,"
8. Anadiplosis
The technique of using anadiplosis is using the end of the last sentence to begin the next sentence. Yoda does this by saying "Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to Suffering" or you could take this example; "Homework leads to achievement, achievement leads to education, and education leads to a career." I made up " Working out leads to hunger, hunger leads to getting up and making food, getting up and making food leads to yummy food to eat, yummy food to eat leads to a full belly."
9.Oxymoron
A figure of speech that's got those contradictory terms paired up. For example, you have "faith unfaithful kept him falsely true," in which the first part makes no sense, however, the second part does. This isn't the oxymoron, I'm just stating the first part makes no sense. You also have "The millionaire was poor," which also doesn't make sense, however, it is technically an oxymoron. Another one that I wrote is "she had many friends yet was lonely," wow. a poet. William Wordsworth better watch his back.
10. Anaphora
When you start each sentence with the same word you started within the sentence before. Most commonly used in speeches where the word/s repeated will often represent the main idea/theme. For example Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech "I have a dream" or "She came, she saw, she conquered." Mine is "The wind hollowed through the trees, the wind whistled through the leaves, the wind thrashed at the rocks, and still, the wind could not blow the world over,"
11. Consonance
Consonance is the technique in which the repetition of constants is in a rhythmic pattern. For example, "The pigeon went coo, the cow went moo, the baby went boo," or even "Claire was caught drinking beer at the fair." I came up with "She was eating brownies while waiting for the dowry,"
12. Onomatopeia
When using onomatopoeia you're using words that describe sounds such as "Bang!" or "the door let out a looooooooooong creak," or "The car crashed into the wall with a booming bang,"
13. Assonance
Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds such as "The cart went to the market for a chance to barter" or "She went to the beach to go find a leach."
14. Personification
Personification is the process of giving an inanimate object (such as a rock) a personality and human features (such as naming it, talking to it, etc). "The thunder smiled like an old man," or possibly "The house had a monstrous smile," which is a reference to Monster House which is a 10/10 movie, would recommend.
Step Four
My learning went alright, it took me a while to get done but I managed it. I also had a quick freak out because I thought we had to do 17 and not 14 but I eventually found out I only had to do 14 just as I finished writing 14 so in the end it worked out.
Next time I will...
Make sure I know how many things I have to write before I write like 20 of them but I only need 13.
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