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Remember how I briefly mentioned how leaving an essay question about dramatic irony unfinished was, in fact, ironic, because I am the sort of person who would be expected to do all her work? It turns out I did not, in fact, have to do that question at all. HELLO IRONY, HERE IS YOUR ROOM, HOW LONG WILL YOU BE STAYING?
On a related note, my English class has this regular assignment called Literary Devices; basically, we must take a term from a list (metaphor, point of view, motif, etcetera) and find an example of it in a book, and explain why the use of it improves or is integral to the story. Now, while these things are not the most unpleasant assignments in the world, it can get a bit mind-numbing, and after a certain point one just resorts to the time-honored tradition of making shit up and pretending it's analysis. But that requires you to have something to analyze in the first place. But the book I am reading is, well, difficult to apply to this assignment, and I was wracking my brain to think of something else I was familiar with enough to find sufficient examples in.
...why hello, BDPS, how very nice of you to have a lovely metaphor one could conceivably babble on about for at least a paragraph!
Change the names to Michael and James Bonaducci, say it's from a book by Melissa Carver called Leaf Mould on the Family Tree, and nobody will notice. See? See? Fanfiction is useful.
On a related note, my English class has this regular assignment called Literary Devices; basically, we must take a term from a list (metaphor, point of view, motif, etcetera) and find an example of it in a book, and explain why the use of it improves or is integral to the story. Now, while these things are not the most unpleasant assignments in the world, it can get a bit mind-numbing, and after a certain point one just resorts to the time-honored tradition of making shit up and pretending it's analysis. But that requires you to have something to analyze in the first place. But the book I am reading is, well, difficult to apply to this assignment, and I was wracking my brain to think of something else I was familiar with enough to find sufficient examples in.
...why hello, BDPS, how very nice of you to have a lovely metaphor one could conceivably babble on about for at least a paragraph!
Change the names to Michael and James Bonaducci, say it's from a book by Melissa Carver called Leaf Mould on the Family Tree, and nobody will notice. See? See? Fanfiction is useful.