All the things I learned in High School...

[Chicklet]

and seem to have forgotten.

My boyfriend's taking the GRE and keeps quizzing me and I keep drawing blanks on things I *know* I *should* know!

Hyperbole got me. So did alliteration.

So this is to be a quiz thread for everyone! The first person will give a small assignment, and then the person that can complete it can quiz the next person! Get it? Got it? Good.

Okay, someone give me an alliteration.

 

[English Lady]

sally skipped sensually sending shockwaves somewhere silly.

 

[Guest]

 

[champagne1982]

Hyperbole, horrendous hunger had her hording huge helpings of he-bits. (see Rhino's avatar)

The fairy was so horny she could eat a Rhino dick...

 

[Guest]

 

[champagne1982]

Metaphorically speaking...

His displeasure clouded the atmosphere in the room, while the lightning bolts of temper flashed from his eyes.

Next: homophone.

 

[Guest]

 

[MathGirl]

So this is to be a quiz thread for everyone!

Hay, Chickie,
I though this was for everyone. When do we get to imaginary numbers and analytical geometry?
MG
Ps. The Graduate Record Exam ain't *supposed* to be for things you learned in high school.

 

[Guest]

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: All the things I learned in High School...

 

[Lovepotion69]

I'm so happy I never decided to apply to a Uni in America. I would have flunked the GRE big time. So far I haven't understood anything you've talked about...

 

[sirhugs]

and seem to have forgotten.

My boyfriend's taking the GRE and keeps quizzing me and I keep drawing blanks on things I *know* I *should* know!

Hyperbole got me. So did alliteration.

So this is to be a quiz thread for everyone! The first person will give a small assignment, and then the person that can complete it can quiz the next person! Get it? Got it? Good.

Okay, someone give me an alliteration.

Andy is almost awake

perfectly pratical professional poet

welcome back chicklet
nice AV
hows the tan?

 

[Medieval-Man]

Wrath of Creative Writing Students

Define:

Abecedarian:
Anagram:
Apochryphal:
Clerihew:
Continuum:
Grue:
Kenning:
Lipogram:
Scansion:
Spoonerism:
Tanka:
Zeugma:


Good luck, no cheating be checking dictionaries!

 

[Monazwx]

I only one I know is Anagram!
Dammit.

 

[Seattle Zack]

I love Spoonerisms; from the Rev. William Spooner, who (supposedly) used to transpose the initial letters of some of his constructions.

Now comes the pun fart:
The dance instructor bore waltz fitness

--Zack

 

[Icingsugar]

I wrote an essay on kenning weaving once. It's a very restrained art of arranging analogies. Originated in medieval Denmark. Or Norway. Or Iceland. Some scolars are still biyttching over that. As if it really made a difference either way.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Wrath of Creative Writing Students

Define:
Tanka:
Zeugma:

Dear MeM,
I think I can probably live without knowing what those two mean.
Vocabularily,
MG
Ps. "Zeguma" sounds like a fun word. Is it a striped, nitrogen fixing plant? A rare, scented ungulant?

 

[Guest]

Scansion I know well, but looked up an official def. to quote:

Analysis of verse into metrical patterns.
Etymology: Late Latin scnsi, scnsin-, from Latin, act of climbing, from scnsus, past participle of scandere, to climb.

An easy example is the analysis of Shakespeare's iambic pentameter, which means a line has five feet (five words of two syllables each with the accent on the second syllable). This is commonly sounded out as da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM. Or, as in my favorite opening line (from the Merchant of Venice):

In SOOTH / I KNOW / not WHY / I AM / so SAD.

Of course it should not be spoken so obviously iambically. Also, there are many variations of i/p in Sh're, e.g., an extra syllable at the beginning or end of lines, and half lines that begin with one character and end with the half line of the next character.

 

[Guest]

 

[Vincent E]

Re: Re: Wrath of Creative Writing Students

Hay, Chickie,
I though this was for everyone. When do we get to imaginary numbers and analytical geometry?
MG

Mathgirl, your assignment is to find the standard deviation of earned runs of all National League left-handed pitchers in games pitched at night on even numbered days west of a longitude of 86 degrees 17 minutes west. A minimun of 50 innings pitched is required.

 

[oggbashan]

Zeugma

He took her hand and her fancy.

She followed his lead and his car.

They wallowed in mud and sex.

She washed her clothes and her hands of him.

I have an unfinished story provisionally titled "Zeugma". After a page or two of zeugma it gets boring. Even the plot was a zeugma.

Og

 

[oggbashan]

Apochryphal:

Apochryphal: originally the Apochryphal books of The Bible which are not considered to be as divinely inspired as the rest but are retained for the edification of believers.

By transfer: things that are not necessarily true such as Urban Myths: The Hitch Hiking Ghost.

Og

 

[Guest]

Re: Zeugma

I have an unfinished story provisionally titled "Zeugma". After a page or two of zeugma it gets boring. Even the plot was a zeugma.

Ogg, I would love to read what you have of this.

as ever, Perdita

 

[Guest]

How to Write a Clerihew

- They are four lines long.
- The first and second lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines rhyme with each other.
- The first line names a person, and the second line ends with something that rhymes with the name of the person.
- A clerihew should be funny.

Sample (not my opinion):
N'Sync
Stink.
Their music hurts my ears.
I much prefer Britney Spears.

http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/clerihew.htm
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"The term clerihew comes from Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who wrote the first known clerihew as a schoolboy. He went on to produce, under the name E. Clerihew B.A. (and with a little help from schoolmate G. K. Chesterton) a collection of clerihews called Biography for Beginners (1905). Bentley is also known for his groundbreaking mystery novel, Trent's Last Case (1911), which helped make plot and character as important as the puzzle in English detective fiction."

Sample:
Dashiell Hammett
Wrote like dammit.
For a time he was a little too much on the Red side
To keep one of his books by your bedside.

http://www.smart.net/~tak/clerihew.html
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No, I did not know any of this; simply did a search. Glad to know though. - Perdita

Offer: a prize* for a Clerihew using my name

*Well, my good wishes and a smilie kiss.

 

[damppanties]

Re: How to Write a Clerihew

Offer: a prize* for a Clerihew using my name

*Well, my good wishes and a smilie kiss.

Perdita
She aint no lolita
She's a lover of Shakespeare
Oh, and Venice is also dear.