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A Mind’s Journey
What made me different from my siblings as I was growing up, was that I preferred to have a carefree and very often, quite reckless attitude towards life. While my elder sister and my little brother did their homework at home, I was out chasing the stray dogs and getting myself all messed up, with the neighborhood kids. My father always said I was a waste of life, but my mother always defended me saying I would make the whole family proud one day. When you’re 9, you don’t really think about making the family proud. All I could think of was when I’d get to go out and play again. But suddenly, in the summer of ’96, I came home to a rude shock. My father had decided to leave us and settle down with another woman, who he claimed he loved. My mother refused to hand us over to him and he looked visibly relieved. You see, by now, I was well past my ‘always out in the sun phase’. I had begun to look at people, and begun observing their facial expressions and begun to formulate stories and situations that they were in. More often than not, I was right about what they were thinking as well.

Then on this day, my mother was not only heartbroken that her husband had decided to leave her, she was absolutely terrified at the prospect of having to raise three kids alone. All I could do, at the tender age of 13 was give my mother a shoulder to cry on. I did all the house work that I could manage along with my siblings, before mum got home from work. Then we all sat and had dinner together and recounted our day’s activities. Talking, I realized then, has a very therapeutic effect on people. Whether it’s about the tiniest incident or a life changing one, you actually feel better when you talk to someone about it. But even greater than talking is the art of active listening. When you actively listen to someone, you give them their full attention and there’s no better feeling than having someone giving you their undivided attention. I tried it out with many people, friends, relatives, even random strangers sometimes. I realized that I had the ability to make people feel better by just listening and talking to them. It got me interested in the psychology of the human mind. Read the rest of this entry »

Very few people ever publish works of fiction. Most don’t even finish their stories and many more don’t even bother starting on them. The stereotype of the “writer” is often vaunted to the point that most individuals feel they are not good enough to put pen to paper. It’s a hair better than the perception of writers a few decades ago – that of slackers and never-do-wells that can’t get jobs.
However, it’s a stereotype nonetheless and it keeps a lot of talented or creative young talent from trying their hand in the field. The main problem is that most people feel, as with almost any time devouring endeavor in this day and age, that they should be paid for their writing. Stephen King and J.K. Rowling are worth billions of dollars, so why shouldn’t everyone else get a 12-country, movie, television and merchandising rights contract to their first novel?
But, writing is more than just a money-making endeavor or a showcase of innate talent. If J.K. Rowling has taught us anything, it’s that a little bit of imagination goes a long way. The world has reveled in her work for more than a decade now and two generations of young people have been drawn into the realm of literature and away from their televisions because of it. However, mere consumption is not the only means by which an individual can enjoy their imagination.
Writing is an extension of the innate ability human beings carry to create an imaginative work from memory and experience. Everyone should write a novel; not because they need the money or because they have a unique talent the world is waiting to see. Everyone should write a novel because everyone has the ability to do so.
It’s not about the work involved or the time required completing such a massive project. It’s about the complicated collection of ideas and thoughts that we all carry around with us from the first day that our brains start to form cohesive memories. We experience billions of little moments in our lifetime and each one is unique. Putting those experiences to paper or screen is a privilege that few in the history of the world have had. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is a list of literary devices that double up as effective rhetorical figures of speech as well. Take a look.

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•Alliteration: Successive words in a sentence or phrase beginning with the same alphabet to emphasize a point. eg. – Delicate, dressy daisies.
•Anacoluthon: Not following the same grammatical sequence throughout an entire sentence. eg. Osama bin Laden’s demise… does that spell the end of global terrorism or is it just a new beginning?
•Anadiplosis: In a sentence constructed of a number of clauses, the word that ends one clause begins the next clause. eg. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you. (spoken by Yoda in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace)
•Anaphora: In a speech or address, a word or phrase may be repeated at the beginning of successive clauses or lines to drive in an idea or make a strong appeal. eg. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. (quote from Casablanca)
•Anastrophe: Distortion of a normal syntactical arrangement of words to create a rhetoric appeal or to put emphasis upon an idea or point in the entire sentence, as in a lot of classical poems. eg. Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake, With the wild world I dwelt in. (from Childe Baron by Lord Byron)
•Antistrophe: In a sentence formed of a number of clauses or phrases, the conclusion of each successive clause or phrase with the same word or phrase that concluded the previous clause. eg. – In 1931, ten years ago, Japan invaded Manchukuo — without warning. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopis — without warning. In 1938, Hitler occupied Austria — without warning. In 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia — without warning. Later in 1939, Hitler invaded Poland — without warning. And now Japan has attached Malaya and Thailand — and the United States — without warning. (quoted by Franklin D. Roosevelt)
•Antithesis: Contrasting words or ideas used in a sentence to make the point clear by way of an oxymoron or a juxtaposition, instead of conveying the idea directly. eg. – accidentally on purpose, agree to disagree, act natural, etc.
•Aporia: An expression of uncertainty regarding one’s course of thought or action, mostly for rhetoric effect rather than expressing actual indecision. eg. – to be or not to be, what shall we do, how shall I face him, etc.
•Aposiopesis: An abrupt halt in the flow of speech owing to the speaker becoming overwhelmed with a heightened emotional state by modesty, anger, passion, shock, etc. eg. – Did she really do that? Oh! She’s such a… you know what, don’t you?
•Apostrophe: Addressing a person that is not present at the moment or a personified object. eg. – Science! True daughter of Old Time thou art! (from To Science by Edgar Allen Poe)
•Archaism: Use of phrases and word forms that are old fashioned and obsolete in terms of contemporary usage. eg. – thou, thee, shew, sate, prithee, gaoler, alack (read any Shakespearean play in the unadapted, original language and you’ll get an idea!)
•Assonance: Use of similar vowel sounds in words close to each other in a phrase or a sentence. eg. – I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless. (from With Love by Irish rock band Thin Lizzy)
•Asyndeton: Omission of conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses in sentence, using comma, instead, to distinguish the related clauses from each other. eg. – We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender. (by Winston Churchill)
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•Brachylogy: A condensed and concise piece of rhetoric expression. Two other rhetorical devices, Asyndeton and Zeugma, are two types of Brachylogy. eg. – I came, I saw, I conquered. (English translation of Julius Caesar’s famous quote in Latin, Veni, Vidi, Vici)
•Cacophony: Use of words and expressions conveying an idea or visualization of discordant sounds. eg. – banging doors, clank of steel rods as they crashed upon each other while tumbling downwards, etc.
•Catachresis: Use of a distinctive metaphor involving words whose use is unusual in the given context. eg. – He looked at the price and his pockets ran dry.
•Chiasmus: A pattern of usage in which a sentence is divided into two parts, with the verbal arrangement such that the second part doesn’t run parallel to the first but is inverted so that the sentence appears balanced at the extremities. eg. – In the end, the true test is not the speeches a president delivers; it’s whether the president delivers on the speeches. (by Hillary Clinton), Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (from Macbeth by William Shakespeare)
•Climax: Mounting degrees of verbal weightage, ascending in rhetoric power as the sentence progresses. eg. – When we send our young men and women into harm’s way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they’re going, to care for their families while they’re gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world. (by Barack Obama)
•Euphemism: Substituting a harsh or unsavory word / phrase with a more gentle and less offending term. eg. – passed away (instead of died), prime figure (instead of fat), wardrobe malfunction, between jobs, adult entertainment, correctional facility, physically challenged, etc.
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•Hendiadys: Two words brought together by a conjunction to form a term or phrase that emphasizes a single idea. eg. – nice and easy, sick and tired, rough and tough, hot and happening, etc.
•Hypallage: An adjective or a descriptive term that brings about a grammatical agreement between two nouns, one being that which it actually describes while the other being out of its descriptive orbit. In other words, a hypallage describes the wrong noun/ pronoun in the sentence. eg. – The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man’s hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. (from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare)
•Hyperbole: A rhetorical emphasis which is exaggerated in expression. eg. – She takes ages to get dressed for a party!, I’ve told you a million times to be more careful around the ceramics!, etc.
•Hysteron Proteron: Inversion of the conventional sequence of words, ideas and actions for aesthetic effect. eg. – put on your shoes and socks (although the normal sequence of actions is putting on one’s socks first, and then the shoes)
•Irony: Saying something but meaning something else, often, but not always, the opposite of what was said. eg. – saying well done or thank you so much to someone who, say, broke your car’s headlights when your intent is far from gratitude or appreciation. Also, the tone and expression in which you say it clearly betray your heartfelt emotions at that time.
•Litotes: Emphasizing an idea by understating it and holding the contradicting idea in negative at the same time. eg. – he’s not the brightest spark in the group (in other words, he’s quite dimwitted), they’re not the best bakers around here (meaning, they’re just about average or maybe even less than average bakers)
•Metaphor: Highlighting qualities of one thing or idea by comparing it with another unrelated object or idea. eg. – he proved to be a wolf in a lamb’s clothing, the pen is mightier than the sword
•Metonymy: Substitution of a word with another when the latter illuminates some quality of the former. It is an extreme metaphor. eg. – lend an ear, give tongue to, etc.
•Onomatopoeia: Sound words or words that convey the idea of a specific sound. eg. – hiss, cackle, tinker, honk, fizz, etc.
•Oxymoron: Use of contradictory words or terms to emphasize the subject or central theme of the sentence. eg. beautifully dangerous, a fine mess, cruel kindness, etc.
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•Paradox: Self contradicting statement that lays emphasis on the central idea. eg. – If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness. (by Alexander Smith)
•Paraprosdokian: A surprise ending to a sentence. Kind of like a twist in the tale. eg. You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else. (by Winston Churchill)
•Paronomasia: Playing with words using similar sounding words to get a point across. eg. – Your children need your presence more than your presents. (by Jesse Jackson)
•Personification: Imparting a personality to an inanimate object and addressing it as if it were an actual, living person. eg. – opportunity came knocking on the door, may Lady Luck always smile on you thus, etc.
•Pleonasm: Repetition of similar words or overuse of similar expressions to fortify an idea. eg. – please repeat that again, totally complete, finally finished, scary nightmare, etc. Read the rest of this entry »