Let's Play a Game of "What's That Technique?" (1 Viewer)

[TQuadded]

"One day,
Before I realized fat kids were not designed to climb trees,
I fell out of a tree,
And bruised the right side of my body."

I don't know what techniques might lie in this seemingly un-analysable text. So suggestions are welcomed!

 

[Flop21]

The word "fat", I'm not sure what the technique is.


Why do you need to analyse this? Why not any other part of this text?

 

[nancylime]

humour
parable like structure
irony
lickmybuttenglish
nah dont really know dazed af

 

[TQuadded]

While you did make me rethink what in the world I'm doing for a second, I found why I'm analysing this and I believe it's circumlocution. I don't know whether or not it's considered a technique, but I'm using it anyway.

 

[Shadowdude]

ooh this thread could have potential:

"A brave man would have been the slayer, as the slain was a brave man. "


go

 

[iforgotmyname]

ooh this thread could have potential:

"A brave man would have been the slayer, as the slain was a brave man. "


go

The repetition of 'brave man' is coupled with the repeated conjugate of 'slay' therefore epitomizing the tautological nature of this statement

 

[Physicklad]

"One day,
Before I realized fat kids were not designed to climb trees,
I fell out of a tree,
And bruised the right side of my body."

I don't know what techniques might lie in this seemingly un-analysable text. So suggestions are welcomed!

incongruence between persona's pain and his detached unemotional tone (humour)

 

[Physicklad]

ooh this thread could have potential:

"A brave man would have been the slayer, as the slain was a brave man. "


go

chiasmus

 

[Shadowdude]

The repetition of 'brave man' is coupled with the repeated conjugate of 'slay' therefore epitomizing the tautological nature of this statement

yes but i was going for:

chiasmus

Which summarises that notion into one word pretty much

 

[TQuadded]

I just realized that if everyone participates in this I've boosted everyone's marks for comprehension. I'm a genius!

 

[Physicklad]

love you, quadded this is a surprisingly enjoyable game

ill probably enjoy it for one last time before it becomes totally irrelevant to my life

 

[TQuadded]

love you, quadded this is a surprisingly enjoyable game

ill probably enjoy it for one last time before it becomes totally irrelevant to my life

There is too much truth in your response.

ENGLISH <- ME

 

[TQuadded]

How about this one?

"That an ingrown life
Is something surgeons can cut away,
That there’s no way for it to metastasize

It does."

 

[Physicklad]

mm kinda tricky

id say abstractions/personification or perhaps metonymy if im feeling lucky?

 

[Physicklad]

oo heres a cool one
so the title of the article is

"How she met her mother"

whats this technique called?

 

[shakkazlegendyolom8]

"I hadn't studied at all for my exams and I was freaking out but then, suddenly, Zeus appeared in the sky telling all the HSC students that the Board of Studies had decided to cancel the HSC for 2015, because all modes of transport in the world had stopped working and thus none of the papers could be delivered to schools. I grinned effusively as I frolicked into the sunset to the tune of Darude-Sandstorm"

Go
(and no the answer is not schizophrenia)

 

[TQuadded]

"I hadn't studied at all for my exams and I was freaking out but then, suddenly, Zeus appeared in the sky telling all the HSC students that the Board of Studies had decided to cancel the HSC for 2015, because all modes of transport in the world had stopped working and thus none of the papers could be delivered to schools. I grinned effusively as I frolicked into the sunset to the tune of Darude-Sandstorm"

Go
(and no the answer is not schizophrenia)

biblical allusion to heaven?