https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58 *Silently screams* en-us 2017-10-27 16:03:22 UTC 2017-10-31 18:36:07 UTC hello@padlet.com mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/201260439 Making a non-human item behave and appear as humans
Ex. “My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing."]]> 2017-10-27 16:04:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/201260439 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/201276711 Leaving a statement unfinished
Ex. O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me,
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me…..]]> 2017-10-27 16:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/201276711 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/201281027 Using an incorrect word in place of a similarly sounding word to create humor
Ex. Using obtuse for abstruse]]> 2017-10-27 16:53:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/201281027 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202278998 A statement that appears to be self-contradictory but actually includes a latent truth
Ex. "I can resist anything but temptation."- Oscar Wilde]]> 2017-10-31 18:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202278998 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202279781 Rhetorical repetition of the same root word in different ways
Ex. "No end to the withering of withered flowers," - T.S. Elliot]]> 2017-10-31 18:20:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202279781 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202280600 Similar words are repeated several times with a different meaning each time
Ex. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -Franklin D. Roosevelt]]> 2017-10-31 18:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202280600 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202281787 A part of something represents the whole, or the whole represents a part
Ex. The phrase “gray beard” refers to an old man]]> 2017-10-31 18:24:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202281787 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202283211 Description of a noun in a way that makes it more prominent than it actually is
Ex. "Upon the sweetest flower of all the field"]]> 2017-10-31 18:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202283211 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202284590 The contraction or shortening of a word by omitting sounds, syllables, or letters from the middle of words
Ex. ne'er]]> 2017-10-31 18:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202284590 mstoelting00 https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202286466 Two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound in the middle of the world
Ex. Men sell the wedding bells]]> 2017-10-31 18:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mstoelting00/5tss2bvz8m58/wish/202286466