Tropes:
Metaphor
o
“Facebook is a sewer filled with the waste of
others”
o
Facebook is not literally a sewer. But by
comparing it to a sewer, which is filled with unwanted things from other
people, the reader is able to say “you know, there are a ton of things on here
from other people that I don’t want”. Like a sewer, there are a lot of things
on there that you just don’t care to see.
Paronomasia
o
“One of the consequences of gazing at your feed,
is that soon you are grazing without any need”
o
Gazing refers to looking, grazing to eating. Once
one looks at Facebook, Food comes calling. One interesting way of reading this
is to view grazing as eating up what you see in your feed, bringing you in,
when you have no need to be looking at it. This causes a reflection, do I do
that?
Anthimeria
o
“Facebook
has interneted our friendships too much”
o
Changing
the internet into a verb shows that our friendships have become too online and
not enough in person.
Hyperbole
o
“Each day everyone logs on Facebook and complain
about every bad thing that happened that day, and post a thousand pictures of
every good thing that happened that day.”
o
This has tons and tons of hyperboles in it. Not
everyone logs on Facebook every day, not everyone posts something that is
complaining, not everyone posts pictures of something good. But when the reader
thinks about all the posts they see, they see that there is some truth in the
statement.
Oxymoron
o
“Facebook will take you into a land of virtual
reality”
o
Virtual reality has become what we associate
with online interactions. And there is a reason for that, virtual is the
antonym of real. Since fake is the opposite of real, virtual reality is fake
reality. People will consider that what happens on Facebook is not what happens
in real life, just as we can take on a persona in virtual reality, we can take
on a persona on facebook.
Schemes:
Parallelism
o
“Logging
on to Facebook means logging off of life”
o
The
idea of logging into or out of something is repeated. It causes one to think
about if they do “log off” of their real lives when they are on Facebook.
Anastrophe
o
“Seized,
there is a world out there to be”
o
By
having first, the natural order is changed giving the impression that seized is
very important, causing a search for what is important to be seized.
Ellipsis
o
“Under
the right circumstances Facebook can be used for good, and under the wrong,
bad.”
o
By
not stating “circumstances Facebook can be used for” again there is a greater
proximity between good and bad, which does a better job of showing the range of
impact it can have.
Alliteration
o
“Go
use your gifts to gladden a heart”
o
The
repetition of the “G” sound gives it a sense to go and do, to motivate to
action.
Okay I really liked how you structured your whole post. I like how in your anthimeria example and alliteration example you were still talking about facebook but not limiting yourself to just the word facebook. That is something I didn't do in my post and wish I had. I think I limited myself too much by sticking too much to words instead of expanding into different ways you can use them, their purposes, and suggesting ways to use them better.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant. These were well put together and very bright thoughts. As I read them I actually found a lot of truth in many of them. I found them to be, in some ways, a reminder of what the prophets have said in regards to social media. Of course, they have taught that there is much good that we can and must do with it. Nonetheless, your sentences would have increased your ethos greatly in the eyes of your audience. I know your ethos went up for me. Your post was very smooth. Done nicely, young Joseph (Anastrophe).
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