Writer's Block by Bridget Raju https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r Timed writing en-us 2020-11-23 01:22:16 UTC 2026-01-02 06:43:13 UTC hello@padlet.com “Half-baked” is a metaphor, which describes the educational stature of the school children. “Museum of ideas” is another metaphor, which seems to showcase the desires of the children to educate themselves, made clear by the fact that the word, “museum” is used, which is a place where things are usually kept with great care.“Like lizards from a ceiling” is a simile, which compares the words which the boys pick up from the news, to the movement of lizards, much to the lizards’ ignorance.“Half formed and half digested and half correct” employs the repetition of “half”, to emphasize the incomplete fulfilment which the students feel with respect to their education. iranavneet https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950834053 2020-11-23 02:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950834053 “open our skulls”- Visual imagery, it helps the readers, or listeners get a clearer picture and relate to what the speaker is saying. It helps the audience sympathies for the speaker. https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950834616 Asyndeton- uses commas to go on, and makes it more continues and it makes it seem more passionate. 
Repetition of “half”- emphasizes to the audience of how they never got a full education, and how all their ideas were only half developed due to that. This helps provoke more sympathy in the audience. 
“things that drop into your mind, like lizards from the ceiling” simile.  ]]> 2020-11-23 02:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950834616 Firstly, in the lines “Open our skulls, look in with a penlight”, there is a metaphor for if you were to see inside the contents of their brains, however not literally open their skulls and look in with a penlight. Next, there is figure of speech in the words “which every tea shop in this country uses to wrap its snacks in”. Using hyperbolical language, the writer is trying to explain that many people did not care for the textbooks but instead wrapped their snacks around it. Thirdly, “like lizards from the ceiling,” uses a simile to show how suddenly and effortlessly things you learnt when you were younger could drop into your mind. The slightly longer quote, “all these ideas, half formed and half-digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your head, and I guess these half-formed ideas 🤬 one another, and make more half-formed ideas,” uses the repetition of the word “half” to reiterate how broken her memories of knowledge are, and how they together connect dots and slowly, the writer begins to remember. https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950834922 2020-11-23 02:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950834922 https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950835023 Arushi’s work
Metaphor: “you'll find an odd museum of ideas”. Here, the author compares his brain to a museum to describe his thoughts.
Repetition: “in the half hour before falling asleep -- all these ideas, half formed and half-digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your head” Here the prefix ‘half is repeated to create stronger rythm and re-enforce the author's meaning.
Metaphor: “in the half hour before falling asleep -- all these ideas, half formed and half-digested and half correct, mix up with other half-cooked ideas in your head” here, the brain’s ideas are compared to food or a dish being made, but the ideas are only ‘half-cooked’.
Simile: Like lizards from the ceiling. this is a simile that compares the author's ideas to a lizard dropping from the ceiling. 

]]> 2020-11-23 02:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950835023 Anandita's work :) https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950835833 2020-11-23 02:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950835833 jananis work :P https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950836539 A metaphor has been used in the phrase “an odd museum of ideas” to bring about the effect of strange odd things being put together in one place. An exceptionally long sentence from “Open our skulls” to “live with” highlights the large number of thoughts and pieces of information jumbled up in their head. In the phrase “things that drop into your mind, like lizards from the ceiling” a simile is used to bring out the nature of the thoughts in this persons head, perhaps how they drop into their mind spontaneously. The repetition of the prefix “half-” emphasises the initial idea of incompletion and “half-baked minds”. Finally the use of listing brings out the various places from which their thoughts and ideas have come from. ]]> 2020-11-23 02:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950836539 Identify 5 figures of speech in this paragraph (taken from Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger) and add a brief sentence about each. Half baked – metaphor to show he hasn’t evolved much as a person in terms of education. Museum of ideas – metaphor to show the copiousness of ideas in his head and probably confusion as to if they hold true or not. Like lizards from the ceiling – simile to show how often their minds are clouded with such thoughts. Half – cooked ideas – metaphor to display the incompleteness of thoughts due to lack of education 🤬 – personification to show the worth these thoughts and ideas hold in these people’s heads. https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950841110 Dia ]]> 2020-11-23 03:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rbridget/pfgr3j429v2ehf8r/wish/950841110