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Why I remember when I use to raise oxymorons.There I was surveying the heard of oxymorons i had inherited from my uncle Elree.Your see Uncle Elree was an oxymoron rancher from way back.In fact he brought in the first heard of OM`s to colbert county.Well that`s besides the point.There I was trying to free a couple of allegories from a run on sentence.Well little did i know that just over on the south 40 was a heard of exagerations stampeding our way!What could i do?I couldn`t let these little allegories suffer the horrible fate that they were in.But I couldn`t risk the rest of the heard to the stampeding exagerations!So I mounted my stylistic device and headed for the rampaging beasts.When I topped the hill there they were barreling toward me!I pulled out my hyperbole and took out the leader of the....Wait a minute another message from the Dark One...Yes..Yes...Wok-N-Roll is a nice place to eat.....Sweet and Sour soup...She had chicken and lo mein....Well the wild indians were in rare form......I`m surprised there wasn`t a smoking crater when we left....Wait what was i talking about?
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Originally posted by geddon97:
Why I remember when I use to raise oxymorons.There I was surveying the heard of oxymorons i had inherited from my uncle Elree.Your see Uncle Elree was an oxymoron rancher from way back.In fact he brought in the first heard of OM`s to colbert county.Well that`s besides the point.There I was trying to free a couple of allegories from a run on sentence.Well little did i know that just over on the south 40 was a heard of exagerations stampeding our way!What could i do?I couldn`t let these little allegories suffer the horrible fate that they were in.But I couldn`t risk the rest of the heard to the stampeding exagerations!So I mounted my stylistic device and headed for the rampaging beasts.When I topped the hill there they were barreling toward me!I pulled out my hyperbole and took out the leader of the....Wait a minute another message from the Dark One...Yes..Yes...Wok-N-Roll is a nice place to eat.....Sweet and Sour soup...She had chicken and lo mein....Well the wild indians were in rare form......I`m surprised there wasn`t a smoking crater when we left....Wait what was i talking about?


classic! that one goes in the history books, jedi-don. BABABWWAWAWAAWAHAAhhahahahaha!

i knew this thread would get better eventually.
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Originally posted by jjuliesmiles:
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Maybe we can channel E. A. Poe and have a threesome!



hahahaha Earthmomma - you crack me up!!!! Big Grin
Thanks, Julie! For those who slept through 10th grade lit, ontomatopeia and alliteration are two leading style characteristics of Poe's poetry. Kind of an inside fun time between George and me and the rest who did not sleep through 10th grade lit!
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Originally posted by autumn1964:
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Originally posted by George Sand:
Once upon a midnight dreary....


While I pondered weak and weary......

E.A.Poe is one of my favorite writers. Smiler


Did anyone else have to memorize and resite this in the seventh (maybe eighth) grade? We also had to learn the Gettysburg address and the preamble to the Constitution. Yikes, flashbacks of middle school...causing...brain to...repress...augghhh
I was that nerdy kid who memorized Poe before I was ever told to. I also knew the preamble but being a good Confederate, I didn't want to memorize the Gettysburg addy. (LOL I have relatives who fought on both sides. Been doing some research and found I had a relative in the 1st AL Cavalry - they were a southern unit who fought for the north. Sherman's body guards. Mad There's a black sheep in every family.)

Hear the tolling of the bells--
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy meaning of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
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Originally posted by earthmomma:
Actually, alliterative Alice almost always allows that alluring and audacious Onomotopoeia in; so don't sweat it! This makes no sense. should it? Maybe we can channel E. A. Poe and have a threesome!


Onomotopoeia, every time I see ya... (Todd Rundgren)

Okay, earthmomma, I'll buy you lunch--think I owe you one promised from Christmas. "Alluring Alice, etc.," actually isn't alliteration. It's assonance. "Beautiful Beatrice" would be alliteration. Assonance refers to words beginning with vowels.

Of course when we get into poetry, as in Poe, the sounds can come in the middle of the words and not at the beginning.

There will be a test later, but only for "Salsa Babe."
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Originally posted by Maggie2:
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Sure, just let me know which of your many strange and mystifying personalities will be showing up.


I assure you, I will bring my entire 'personality' with me! Freakin' Moron.


Well the fair is over. I don't remember anyone coming by identifying themselves as Freakin' Moron, but "Maggie" I would have given you that free reading is you showed up. Another time.
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