Monday, October 13, 2014

Figurative Language about Facebook

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.

2 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. Brilliant. 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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