hey you! double layered chocolate cake, sitting like a fancy lady, provoking my reasoning, leaving vegetables look dreary, costing me fortune, your playmates, cholesterol and glucose triumphantly conquer my body, building their kingdom!
Written For: Trifecta Challenge:
This week we are taking you, once again, back to school for a lesson in literary devices. Remember the apostrophe? About.com defines apostrophe as, “A figure of speech in which some absent or nonexistent person or thing is addressed as if present and capable of understanding.” That same site provides some excellent examples of apostrophes in classical literature. Check them out and then have a crack at it yourself. Give us your best 33-word example of an apostrophe.
I got a little confused between Personification and Apostrophe. A nice article here about the difference: http://www.essayscam.org/Forum/17/personification-apostrophe-language-4010/
Extracting few points from the article:
Personification is therefore the act of treating something that is not a person as if it were; sort of.More specifically, personification is the treatment of inanimate objects, non-living things, and abstract entities as if they were living things. Note how this differs from the preliminary definition above; you don’t need to treat something as a person necessarily, just as a living thing. A classic device of the fable, treating animals as if they were human, is called anthropomorphism, which resembles personification, but which must attribute human characteristics to any non-human being.
Example: “The leaves danced in the cool breeze.”
Apostrophe is a specific kind of personification. which refers to a direct address to an inanimate or abstract entity as if it were a human capable of understanding the address.
Example: “Death be not proud” by John Donne, where the speaker addresses death throughout the poem, cautioning him/her not to be proud, for in the end death is defeated by eternal life.
An address to chocolate cake – this is something I can relate to! Chocolate cake is a temptress…she taunts me, as well 🙂
thanks Janna for the comment 🙂 i so much don’t want to buy it, but then you know it’s CHOCOLATE CAKE!!…. 🙂
Get thee behind me, double-layered chocolate cake! lol
Love the dreary looking vegetables, too!
thank you 🙂
Damn double layered chocolate cake! Very well written prompt!
Glad you liked it 🙂 thank you
All sweet stuff do this to me…powerless I hog on all mithai.
Yeah me too. thanks for stopping by Sini
The gods who created chocolate! How I love them! This was a wonderful read 😀
Thank you so much 🙂 am very glad you liked it
Ha! that cake has a twin name Ice Cream that taunts me and tempts me daily. I can definitely relate. Nicely done!
best,
MOV
thank you MOV, yes ice cream, chocolates all join the list
Chocolate cake, chocolate brownies, chocolate chocolates …. evil, evil temptresses.
Great job! I enjoyed your 33 words, but now I really want to enjoy some chocolate. So, thanks for that. 🙂
haha, thanks Ivy, glad you liked it. 🙂
That’s a lot to say between bites of cake so maybe it’s better just to be quiet and give in haha
Thank you for linking up!
thanks for stopping by Trifecta 🙂
This is a delicious entry, Dhriti 🙂
Thanks so much innerzone 🙂
“Sitting like a fancy lady” – I love this line! Great job.
Thank you Christine