TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-squaremessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up1134arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square79fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-squarefool@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·edit-21 year agoAntimetaboles, maybe? It’s when you switch two words for poetic effect. When the goin’ gets tough, the tough get goin’! It’s fun to sound pseudo-poetic by trying to make one on the fly. Easier than a limerick In this world, you either have bot aim, or you have aimbot. It’s better to cum in the sink than to sink in the cum Shakespeare was lowbrow too, ok
minus-squareTheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoLol Shakespeare the OG rapper: From Family Guy: I’m not saying she’s a gold digger, but she ain’t messing with any…who isn’t she messing with?
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoThe Sphinx : Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage… Mr. Furious : …your rage will become your master? That’s what you were going to say. Right? Right? The Sphinx : Not necessarily.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year ago“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”?
minus-squareshrodes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoChampagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends
Antimetaboles, maybe? It’s when you switch two words for poetic effect.
It’s fun to sound pseudo-poetic by trying to make one on the fly. Easier than a limerick
Shakespeare was lowbrow too, ok
Lol Shakespeare the OG rapper:
From Family Guy: I’m not saying she’s a gold digger, but she ain’t messing with any…who isn’t she messing with?
The Sphinx : Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage…
Mr. Furious : …your rage will become your master? That’s what you were going to say. Right? Right?
The Sphinx : Not necessarily.
“I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy”?
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends