1. Metaphor
- "Anarchy is an atomic bomb held by us all".
- The incredible potential for both destruction and utilization found in anarchy is dangerous, but even more nerve-wracking is the fact that everyone can tap into that power
2. Paranomasia
- The abuse of governmental power rises in an arch until it falls into anarchy.
- Anarchy and "an arch" are similar sounding and one can be used to describe the process of the other (e.g. Anarchist attacks has led to an arch in store robberies)
3. Anthimeria
- In 2011, the Libyan dictatorship was dethroned and subsequently anarchized
- We both know that anarchized isn't a a word, but it sounds pretty convincing as a verb used to describe the chaotic state of a former government.
4. Hyperbole
- The Anarchists are obliterating the city!
- Unless the aforementioned anarchists have some kind of science fiction energy/power, it is highly unlikely that the city is being utterly destroyed.
5. Oxymoron
- Anarchy is the destructive creativity that society needs to grow
- It's pretty hard to create something when the intent is merely to destroy.
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| A little bit of parallelism from an famous anarchist |
Schemes about Anarchy
1. Parallelism
- One stand, one bullet, one scream of "enough" is all it takes to start a revolution.
- the parallelism is found in the clauses, which creates a list of similar things which all can lead to anarchy
2. Anastrophe
- Glowing in hot embers, the shadows of the growing anarchy spread across the streets.
- Putting hot embers at the beginning of the sentence produces emphasis of them and tells the mind to focus on the fact that fire is heavily involved in this scene.
3. Ellipses
- Anarchy can lead to salvation for thousands. Sometimes, the result is desolation.
- Since anarchy is already the topic, it can be omitted from the next sentence without confusion to continue the ongoing train of thought on it's ongoing consequences
4. Alliteration
- When amoral aristocrats advance oppression on others, anarchy attacks aggressively.
- Although the letters at the beginning are not alike, the sound made is identical or similar and provides a flow of speech within the sentence.
I like your use of paronomasia, but I think you could use the word "arch" a little more smoothly in your second example. Usually we'd hear something like "led to a rise, or peak, in robberies." To use "arch," I would say, "We hope that the high point of the arch in the number of store robberies stemming from the recent anarchist attacks has passed.
ReplyDeleteI thought your metaphor was excellent. It helped me to realize the precariousness of that situation. Another way you could phrase your ellipses would be "Anarchy can lead thousands to salvation, but for others, desolation." In this case the omitted context is "anarchy leads to" instead of just "anarchy", if that makes sense.
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