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  13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 15:47 +0000
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2015-08-20 15:54 +0000
      Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-20 11:59 -0500
        Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-20 14:26 -0400
          Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 23:18 +0000
      Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 13:03 -0400
        Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 11:02 -0700
          Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 16:31 -0400
            Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 14:05 -0700
            Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-20 15:37 -0700
              Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-21 13:06 -0700
                Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-22 03:57 -0400
              Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2015-08-22 07:01 +0000
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2015-08-20 09:20 -0700
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-20 16:18 +0000
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-08-20 09:32 -0700

#420687 — 13 Essential Literary Terms

This link to a slide show promises to disclose 13 essential literary
terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/literary-terms .
(reference.com will work for webpage hits.)

Unfortunately, there's so much DNS blacklisting, ad blocking,
notscripting, and such on my network that the slideshow just won't work
for me. There's just no way that my personal hardware gets exposed to
Web 2.0 for the sake of 13 essential literary terms. Be that as it may,
if (s)he of stouter heart in our midst chooses to foray where there be
dragons, please share the plunder of 13 essential literary terms
according to reference.com.

As a tradeoff, allow me to share my very own list of more than 13
essential literary terms. :)

allegory, alliteration, allusion, aphorism, apostrophe, assonance,
clich\xc3\xa9, connotation, denotation, hyperbole, irony, metaphor,
onomatopoeia, oxymoron, parable, paradox, personification, pun, satire,
simile, symbolism, understatement

--
 ,-.                              There was a young lady named Bright
 \_/                              Whose speed was far faster than light;
{|||)<   Don Kuenz KB7RPU            She set out one day
 / \                                 In a relative way
 `-'                              And returned on the previous night.

What you do speaks so loud that I can not hear what you say. - Emerson.

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#420688

Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
> 
> This link to a slide show promises to disclose 13 essential literary
> terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/literary-terms .
> (reference.com will work for webpage hits.)
> 
> Unfortunately, there's so much DNS blacklisting, ad blocking,
> notscripting, and such on my network that the slideshow just won't work
> for me. There's just no way that my personal hardware gets exposed to
> Web 2.0 for the sake of 13 essential literary terms. Be that as it may,
> if (s)he of stouter heart in our midst chooses to foray where there be
> dragons, please share the plunder of 13 essential literary terms
> according to reference.com.

The 13 essentil literary terms in their slideshow are:
metaphor
simile
analogy
hyperbole
allusion
euphemism
paradox
oxymoron
satire
onomatopoeia
alliteration
allegory
irony

I kept the rest of your post below for completeness/reference.
- Tony


> As a tradeoff, allow me to share my very own list of more than 13
> essential literary terms. :)
> 
> allegory, alliteration, allusion, aphorism, apostrophe, assonance,
> clich\xc3\xa9, connotation, denotation, hyperbole, irony, metaphor,
> onomatopoeia, oxymoron, parable, paradox, personification, pun, satire,
> simile, symbolism, understatement
> 
> --
> ,-.                              There was a young lady named Bright
> \_/                              Whose speed was far faster than light;
> {|||)<   Don Kuenz KB7RPU            She set out one day
> / \                                 In a relative way
> `-'                              And returned on the previous night.
> 
> What you do speaks so loud that I can not hear what you say. - Emerson.

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#420694

On 2015-08-20, Anthony Nance <nance@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> The 13 essentil literary terms in their slideshow are:
> metaphor > simile > analogy > hyperbole > allusion > euphemism > paradox
> oxymoron > satire > onomatopoeia > alliteration > allegory > irony
>
> I kept the rest of your post below for completeness/reference.
> - Tony
>
> Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
>> As a tradeoff, allow me to share my very own list of more than 13
>> essential literary terms. :)
>> 
>> allegory, alliteration, allusion, aphorism, apostrophe, assonance,
>> clich\xc3\xa9, connotation, denotation, hyperbole, irony, metaphor,
>> onomatopoeia, oxymoron, parable, paradox, personification, pun, satire,
>> simile, symbolism, understatement

What, no zeugma, syzygy, or prolepsis?

Dave, and how about limerick?
-- 
\/David	DeLaney	posting	thru EarthLink - "It's not the pot that	grows the flower
It's not the clock that	slows the hour 	The definition's plain for anyone to see
Love is	all it takes to	make a family" - R&P. VISUALIZE	HAPPYNET VRbeable<BLINK>
http://gatekeeper.vic.com/~dbd/	-net.legends/Magic / I WUV you in all CAPS! --K.

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#420709

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:59:45 -0500, David DeLaney
<daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote
in<news:-ZCdnbnbe68cmkvInZ2dnUU7-T2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> in
rec.arts.sf.written:

> On 2015-08-20, Anthony Nance <nance@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:

>> The 13 essentil literary terms in their slideshow are:
>> metaphor > simile > analogy > hyperbole > allusion >
>> euphemism > paradox oxymoron > satire > onomatopoeia >
>> alliteration > allegory > irony

>> I kept the rest of your post below for completeness/reference.
>> - Tony

>> Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:

>>> As a tradeoff, allow me to share my very own list of
>>> more than 13 essential literary terms. :)

>>> allegory, alliteration, allusion, aphorism, apostrophe,
>>> assonance, clich\xc3\xa9, connotation, denotation,
>>> hyperbole, irony, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron,
>>> parable, paradox, personification, pun, satire,
>>> simile, symbolism, understatement

> What, no zeugma, syzygy, or prolepsis?

I want <meiosis> in place of <understatement>.

Brian
-- 
It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their
holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered
rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,
haggisss.

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#420729

Brian M. Scott <b.scott@csuohio.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:59:45 -0500, David DeLaney
> <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote
> in<news:-ZCdnbnbe68cmkvInZ2dnUU7-T2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> in
> rec.arts.sf.written:
>
>> On 2015-08-20, Anthony Nance <nance@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>
>>> The 13 essentil literary terms in their slideshow are:
>>> metaphor > simile > analogy > hyperbole > allusion >
>>> euphemism > paradox oxymoron > satire > onomatopoeia >
>>> alliteration > allegory > irony
>
>>> I kept the rest of your post below for completeness/reference.
>>> - Tony
>
>>> Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
>
>>>> As a tradeoff, allow me to share my very own list of
>>>> more than 13 essential literary terms. :)
>
>>>> allegory, alliteration, allusion, aphorism, apostrophe,
>>>> assonance, clich\xc3\xa9, connotation, denotation,
>>>> hyperbole, irony, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron,
>>>> parable, paradox, personification, pun, satire,
>>>> simile, symbolism, understatement
>
>> What, no zeugma, syzygy, or prolepsis?
>
> I want <meiosis> in place of <understatement>.

It's all good to use one meaning of <meiosis> to both figuratively and
literally belittle <understatement>. :) But the biological meaning of
<meiosis> frustrates me because it's not tightly coupled to
<telencephalization>. :(

In a perfect world where <meiosis> *is* tightly coupled to
<telencephalization> then F Paul Wilson's "Higher Centers" naturally
follows. And entitles me to mini-rant about centralization as a
pathogen. :)

--
 ,-.                              There was a young lady named Bright
 \_/                              Whose speed was far faster than light;
{|||)<   Don Kuenz KB7RPU            She set out one day
 / \                                 In a relative way
 `-'                              And returned on the previous night.

What you do speaks so loud that I can not hear what you say. - Emerson.

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#420697

In article <mr4t8a$j6i$1@dont-email.me>,
nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) said:

Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
>
> This link to a slide show promises to disclose 13 essential literary
> terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/literary-terms .
> (reference.com will work for webpage hits.)
>
> Unfortunately, there's so much DNS blacklisting, ad blocking,
> notscripting, and such on my network that the slideshow just won't work
> for me. There's just no way that my personal hardware gets exposed to
> Web 2.0 for the sake of 13 essential literary terms. Be that as it may,
> if (s)he of stouter heart in our midst chooses to foray where there be
> dragons, please share the plunder of 13 essential literary terms
> according to reference.com.

> The 13 essentil literary terms in their slideshow are:
> metaphor
> simile
> analogy
> hyperbole
> allusion
> euphemism
> paradox
> oxymoron
> satire
> onomatopoeia
> alliteration
> allegory
> irony
Paradox is a literary term?

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#420706

On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 1:03:18 PM UTC-4, William December Starr wrote:
> In article <mr4t8a$j6i$1@dont-email.me>,
> nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) said:
> 
> Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
> >
> > This link to a slide show promises to disclose 13 essential literary
> > terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/literary-terms .
> > (reference.com will work for webpage hits.)
> >
> > Unfortunately, there's so much DNS blacklisting, ad blocking,
> > notscripting, and such on my network that the slideshow just won't work
> > for me. There's just no way that my personal hardware gets exposed to
> > Web 2.0 for the sake of 13 essential literary terms. Be that as it may,
> > if (s)he of stouter heart in our midst chooses to foray where there be
> > dragons, please share the plunder of 13 essential literary terms
> > according to reference.com.
> 
> > The 13 essentil literary terms in their slideshow are:
> > metaphor
> > simile
> > analogy
> > hyperbole
> > allusion
> > euphemism
> > paradox
> > oxymoron
> > satire
> > onomatopoeia
> > alliteration
> > allegory
> > irony
> Paradox is a literary term?

Paradoxically, yes.

pt

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#420719

In article <61cdd1b8-33df-49ed-b700-358181582ba5@googlegroups.com>,
petertrei@gmail.com said:

> William December Starr wrote:
>> Paradox is a literary term?
>
> Paradoxically, yes.

That would be the

   "A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually
   valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must
   sometimes be cruel in order to be kind."

   (Definition lifted from some online dictionary.)

meaning of 'paradox' then?  (As opposed to, e.g., your basic acausal
event or artifact in a time-travel story, like that poem in THE ANUBIS
GATES.)

-- wds

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#420720

On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 4:31:59 PM UTC-4, William December Starr wrote:
> In article <61cdd1b8-33df-49ed-b700-358181582ba5@googlegroups.com>,
> petertrei@gmail.com said:
> 
> > William December Starr wrote:
> >> Paradox is a literary term?
> >
> > Paradoxically, yes.
> 
> That would be the
> 
>    "A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually
>    valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must
>    sometimes be cruel in order to be kind."
> 
>    (Definition lifted from some online dictionary.)
> 
> meaning of 'paradox' then? 

Sure. But mainly:
            http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RuleOfFunny
pt

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#420727

On Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:31:59 UTC+1, William December Starr  wrote:
> In article <61cdd1b8-33df-49ed-b700-358181582ba5@googlegroups.com>,
> petertrei@gmail.com said:
> 
> > William December Starr wrote:
> >> Paradox is a literary term?
> >
> > Paradoxically, yes.
> 
> That would be the
> 
>    "A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually
>    valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must
>    sometimes be cruel in order to be kind."
> 
>    (Definition lifted from some online dictionary.)
> 
> meaning of 'paradox' then?  (As opposed to, e.g., your basic acausal
> event or artifact in a time-travel story, like that poem in THE ANUBIS
> GATES.)
> 
> -- wds

As usual, I've forgotten the word that was chosen to apply
to the object that travels in time and becomes its own 
past self - something out of the Arabian Nights?

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop> doesn't help
unless it's "bootstrap" or "grandfather", which I don't
think it was.  Nor ourobourobourobourobouros.

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#420781

On Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 6:37:35 PM UTC-4, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 August 2015 21:31:59 UTC+1, William December Starr  wrote:
> > In article <61cdd1b8-33df-49ed-b700-358181582ba5@googlegroups.com>,
> > petertrei@gmail.com said:
> > 
> > > William December Starr wrote:
> > >> Paradox is a literary term?
> > >
> > > Paradoxically, yes.
> > 
> > That would be the
> > 
> >    "A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually
> >    valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must
> >    sometimes be cruel in order to be kind."
> > 
> >    (Definition lifted from some online dictionary.)
> > 
> > meaning of 'paradox' then?  (As opposed to, e.g., your basic acausal
> > event or artifact in a time-travel story, like that poem in THE ANUBIS
> > GATES.)
> > 
> > -- wds
> 
> As usual, I've forgotten the word that was chosen to apply
> to the object that travels in time and becomes its own 
> past self - something out of the Arabian Nights?
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop> doesn't help
> unless it's "bootstrap" or "grandfather", which I don't
> think it was.  Nor ourobourobourobourobouros.

Howzabout "autoanachronisms?"

Kevin R

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#420809

In article <cc75a468-1fd0-4e5c-81a7-f0d3febdb2f7@googlegroups.com>,
Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> said:

> Robert Carnegie wrote:
>
>> As usual, I've forgotten the word that was chosen to apply
>> to the object that travels in time and becomes its own
>> past self - something out of the Arabian Nights?
>>
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop> doesn't help
>> unless it's "bootstrap" or "grandfather", which I don't
>> think it was.  Nor ourobourobourobourobouros.
>
> Howzabout "autoanachronisms?"

No, that would be Delorean in 1955.

-- wds

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#420800

In article <84448948-2240-43f6-85d3-6cb9729bfa80@googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
>As usual, I've forgotten the word that was chosen to apply
>to the object that travels in time and becomes its own 
>past self - something out of the Arabian Nights?

Djinn.

-- 
   David Goldfarb          |"Do you know what Freud said about dreams of flying?
goldfarbdj@gmail.com       | It means you're really dreaming about having sex."
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu  |   "Indeed. Tell me, then, what does it mean when
                           |   you dream about having sex?"  -- _Sandman_ #15

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#420690

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 15:47:05 +0000 (UTC) in rec.arts.sf.written, Don
Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote,
>This link to a slide show promises to disclose 13 essential literary
>terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/literary-terms .
>(reference.com will work for webpage hits.)
>
>Unfortunately, there's so much DNS blacklisting, ad blocking,
>notscripting, and such on my network that the slideshow just won't work

It's CSS'd into oblivion.  Works OK with lynx.
No need for a slideshow; the images are content-free.

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#420691

In article <20150820a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz  <garbage@crcomp.net> wrote:
>
>This link to a slide show promises to disclose 13 essential literary
>terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/literary-terms .
>(reference.com will work for webpage hits.)
>
>Unfortunately, there's so much DNS blacklisting, ad blocking,
>notscripting, and such on my network that the slideshow just won't work
>for me. 

Interesting.  My security software, ESET, which I love a lot, but
which blocks all kinds of stuff, allowed me to see it.


-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress.
Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.

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#420692

In article <20150820a@crcomp.net>, Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> 
wrote:

> This link to a slide show promises to disclose 13 essential literary
> terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/slideshows/literary-terms .
> (reference.com will work for webpage hits.)
> 
> Unfortunately, there's so much DNS blacklisting, ad blocking,
> notscripting, and such on my network that the slideshow just won't work
> for me. There's just no way that my personal hardware gets exposed to
> Web 2.0 for the sake of 13 essential literary terms. 

Based on personal experience since the introduction of "Teh Interwebs", 
there is *NEVER* *UNDER* *ANY* *CIRCUMSTANCES* *ANY* *VALID* *REASON* to 
require anything more than bare-bones HTML capability to display a list 
of "The top X examples of _______". Without exception, any site doing so 
is trying to screw the user over somehow, whether directly (by injecting 
malware or harvesting personal data) or indirectly (by spamming them 
with ads or inflating click-through numbers)

I *STRONGLY* encourage anyone and everyone to avoid such sites like 
they'd avoid pouring sewage over their own head.

-- 
Security provided by Mssrs Smith and/or Wesson. Brought to you by the letter Q

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