The "Grammar Love" Ficathon
This is based on an idea peskywhistpaw had a long time ago... essentially, your task is to use grammatical/figurative languange devices as prompts.
I've selected some devices that have the potential for being fun and challenging to work in. There are two ways you can do this:
1. Use the device several times throughout the fic, or at least make its use very prominent.
2. Take the device as a prompt and develop a plot!bunny around it. Use of the device is not required in this case - this may be much more difficult to pull off, depending on the device you pick.
Pick any device you like from my list - I'd prefer it if you only used one per fic, but if you want to use multiple devices check with me... and I'll probably say yes, depending on the number of devices and the combination that you pick. If there's another one you'd like to use that's not on my list, talk to me. :)
You can write any kind of fic you want - shippy, gen, whatever. There are no other rules, except that the deadline for this ficathon is April 27. I'll make a masterlist the day after that.
Abbreviation - a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole.
Acronym - a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words.
Alliteration - the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, e.g. as in apt alliteration's artful aid.
Anadiplosis - a rhetorical device where a word or phrase at the end of a sentence or phrase is repeated at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase, e.g. Here, we don't accept failure. Failure is not an option.
Antimetabole - a rhetorical device where a word or a phrase in one clause or phrase is repeated in the opposite order in the next clause or phrase, e.g. the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Archaic Language - words and phrases that were once used regularly in language, but are now less common, e.g. thou, thee, thine, etc.
Cross-talk - the overlapping dialogue of three or more people, with the effect of sounding like loud, inane babbling.
Double Entendre - a word or expression used in a given context so that it can be understood in two ways, especially when one meaning is risqué.
Dramatic Irony - irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters.
Epizeuxis - is the repetition of words or phrases next to each other, e.g. a rose is a rose is a rose.
Hyperbole - an obvious and intentional exaggeration, e.g. to wait an eternity.
Litotes - a kind of understatement, where the speaker or writer uses a negative of a word ironically, to mean the opposite, e.g. she's not the friendliest person I know.
Malapropism - the act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound, e.g. lead the way and we'll precede.
Mnemonic - something intended to assist the memory, like a verse or formula, e.g. ROY G. BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow.
Onomatopoeia - a word that imitates a sound, e.g. buzz, boom, cuckoo.
Ordinal Numbers - numbers that indicate the order or position of something in a group or set, e.g. first, second, fifteenth.
Oxymoron - a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, e.g. cruel kindness, to make haste slowly.
Palindrome - a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, e.g. Poor Dan is in a droop.
Portmanteau Word - formed out of parts of other words, e.g. brunch is formed from breakfast and lunch.
Rhetorical Question - a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply.
Spoonerism - the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, e.g. hissed the mystery lectures instead of missed the history lectures.
Superlative - of, pertaining to, or noting the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, e.g. smallest, best, most carefully.
Unreliable Narrator - a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the ‘true’ understanding of events by the reader and the author.
I hope you all have fun with this! :) Invite your friends!
I've selected some devices that have the potential for being fun and challenging to work in. There are two ways you can do this:
1. Use the device several times throughout the fic, or at least make its use very prominent.
2. Take the device as a prompt and develop a plot!bunny around it. Use of the device is not required in this case - this may be much more difficult to pull off, depending on the device you pick.
Pick any device you like from my list - I'd prefer it if you only used one per fic, but if you want to use multiple devices check with me... and I'll probably say yes, depending on the number of devices and the combination that you pick. If there's another one you'd like to use that's not on my list, talk to me. :)
You can write any kind of fic you want - shippy, gen, whatever. There are no other rules, except that the deadline for this ficathon is April 27. I'll make a masterlist the day after that.
Abbreviation - a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole.
Acronym - a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words.
Alliteration - the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, e.g. as in apt alliteration's artful aid.
Anadiplosis - a rhetorical device where a word or phrase at the end of a sentence or phrase is repeated at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase, e.g. Here, we don't accept failure. Failure is not an option.
Antimetabole - a rhetorical device where a word or a phrase in one clause or phrase is repeated in the opposite order in the next clause or phrase, e.g. the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Archaic Language - words and phrases that were once used regularly in language, but are now less common, e.g. thou, thee, thine, etc.
Cross-talk - the overlapping dialogue of three or more people, with the effect of sounding like loud, inane babbling.
Double Entendre - a word or expression used in a given context so that it can be understood in two ways, especially when one meaning is risqué.
Dramatic Irony - irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters.
Epizeuxis - is the repetition of words or phrases next to each other, e.g. a rose is a rose is a rose.
Hyperbole - an obvious and intentional exaggeration, e.g. to wait an eternity.
Litotes - a kind of understatement, where the speaker or writer uses a negative of a word ironically, to mean the opposite, e.g. she's not the friendliest person I know.
Malapropism - the act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound, e.g. lead the way and we'll precede.
Mnemonic - something intended to assist the memory, like a verse or formula, e.g. ROY G. BIV to remember the colors of the rainbow.
Onomatopoeia - a word that imitates a sound, e.g. buzz, boom, cuckoo.
Ordinal Numbers - numbers that indicate the order or position of something in a group or set, e.g. first, second, fifteenth.
Oxymoron - a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, e.g. cruel kindness, to make haste slowly.
Palindrome - a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, e.g. Poor Dan is in a droop.
Portmanteau Word - formed out of parts of other words, e.g. brunch is formed from breakfast and lunch.
Rhetorical Question - a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply.
Spoonerism - the transposition of initial or other sounds of words, usually by accident, e.g. hissed the mystery lectures instead of missed the history lectures.
Superlative - of, pertaining to, or noting the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, e.g. smallest, best, most carefully.
Unreliable Narrator - a narrator whose account of events appears to be faulty, misleadingly biased, or otherwise distorted, so that it departs from the ‘true’ understanding of events by the reader and the author.
I hope you all have fun with this! :) Invite your friends!