The smooth silk sways [Alliteration] my desires to sleep. Oh how I have missed you [Apostrophe], the
Silent Night(s)! The silence and the sleep somehow always seem to escape from
my reach [Ethopoeia/Personification] each night. What must one man do to find
such rest? Why must it be so difficult to sleep in peace [Epiplexis]? Who is to
blame and to whom must I proclaim? But wait! At last, the Silent Night(s) have returned
[Ethopoeia]. Like the wind sets sails to the voyager, you send sanity to my
soul [Simile].
It has been far too long, far too few of nights where I have
found true slumber. In truth, to slumber is next to impossible in this “college-life”
[Hyperbole]. So how grateful I am to have finally found it. For this week,
starting tonight, I will sleep like a baby [Maxim/Proverb] once more. I speak
of the silent nights in which the night slumbers [Metaphorical use of Verbs]
along with you. No sound, no stress, no midnight spars [systrophe].
At last I have found the week of slumber. Grateful indeed, I am [anastrophe]. For this
week there will be no stereo, no yelling, no late night in-door basketball
playing; no noise. This week Silent Night(s) will love me and I her
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Very creative, and truthful post. I couldn't agree more, or be more thankful. I did my post around an apostrophe to the thanksgiving feast and how it reminds me of all the many blessings I have. I wish I would have read your post before I finished up my writing, because I feel you have done a great job in humanizing your early object in your use of an apostrophe, by your other effective uses of amplification. Great work.
ReplyDeleteProof that rhetorical figures create humor! I laughed out loud when I read "Silent Night" (periphrasis).
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