Blog #17

I have now read and analyzed our digital class play. I have found some interesting literary devices that seem really catchy and make the play be more specific, these literary devices that I have found are the ones that I chose, and which are, allusion, Onomatopeia, and hyperbole.
Reading the play to me was very entertaining and actually pretty funny at times. Especially when I got to the part in the play where I knew that it was a perfect example for what allusion was, which is used when you are refering to a famous person or event. I found this literary device in Act 1 Scene 2 Page 3.
VINCENT
I did the same thing. Did you notice that the whole 12th chapter is in Iambic pentameter?
I thought that this was a really good use to which refers back to a famous peron or place. Iambic pentemeter is known for a metrical line being commongly used in traditional verse and verse drama, it also descibes how the rhythem of the words flow in that particular sentence. I think that the readers reading this play will think that we actually know what we are talking about since we are talking about books that the characters have read in a play that was written by students who read other plays to come up with this original one, which is coming out fantastically great. It also makes people who dont know what an iambic pentameter is, look it up and see it as a reference to what the dialogue was trying to explain in that particular conversation that Vincent was having with a proffesor who had read the same book that he had in the past. I actually think that we should have more of these famous or intelectual parts that could be included as kind of funny or just really smart. It makess the play set a tone where everything can reference back to something that relates to what the characters might be talking about.
My second literary device that I havent found yet was Onomatopeia which means to use words to imitate the sounds they describe. I think that we should start using more of this since it really paints a picture in the readers mind and sets the setting straight if somoeone might get confused while reading it. For example in Act 1 Scene 1 Page 1.
(GRANT has already started drinking and now realizes that he is drinking three day old coffee. He does a spit take/spits it back in the cup.)
I think that this part was an over all great description of what he was doing and what was happening in the scene, but in my opinion I want there to be more of this Onomatopeia through out the play, since it makes sense to describe each scene while changing it with specific details. This will actually also help the readers understand where the conversations took place and also define why they act the way they do.
In Act 1 Scene 1 Page 2, there was an interesting literary device that the play had which made it seem exaggerated and told alot at the same time.
GRANT: you are such a hermit. You almost never leave, and when you’re here you don’t do anything.
This to me defined hyperbole which is when the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and over emphasize the basic crux of the statement. I think that this was of really good help to understand how lazy the main character was in a sense that I could understand it and see that he also wasn't the most athletic person as well. I really like this literary device because I feel like we can play around with them and see peoples reactions to it.