Thursday, August 12, 2010

Field Trip: Happy Birthday


Now, try to resist the urge to follow me into this former pond of poo.

I've had a rough time identifying any antimetabole in anything, but I think I found one:

"Now, it was just what it was." - p. 176

Wait, just kidding. Those are in the same grammatical order. Are we sure these exist in actual literature?

Imagery, on the other hand.... That stuff's all over the place:

"There were yellow butterflies. There was a breeze and a wide blue sky." - p. 173

I can't say it's terribly effective, though. I mean, I'm not going to forget how that place used to look and feel and smell, and I was never even there, actually. Really, I guess his point is the change in the place; it's relatively nice and peaceful there now. "Relatively" must be the key word in that sentence, however. I mean, seriously... the place was gross.

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