#metonymy

[philosophybits]

What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding.

Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

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[the-fae-folk]

one of my english teachers mentioned that the writer of our current book uses black and white storytelling for dramatic effect. i though black and white thinking was bad? (for quoth the raven)

CAARK! Black and White thinking can be bad, yes. It can be used to pass over the suffering of others with a blind eye, or to justify cruelties beyond imagining as long as the Other is considered to be wicked and wrong in all ways. But things are never that simple. Just as the world is more nuanced and mixed up, full of exceptions and wrong impressions, filled with countless other points of view that would grant a mind breaking number of different colored lenses from which one could understand this farce we call reality, so too is even the idea of black-and-white as a narrative device much more layered than most people seem to notice or care to see.

To be clear, we're talking about the kind of thinking that draws a clear division or difference between two things. We can actually break this up into different literary devices in writing. The first and most obvious is Juxtaposition.

Juxtaposition is when you place two different story elements side by side in order to compare how similar they are in some respects, but also to highlight how contrasting they are, how different. But less pointed out is how this Juxtaposition can be a form of Metonymy and Motif. These two are connected. Motif is a symbol, structure, or idea repeated throughout a literary work to emphasize the theme. Metonymy is the deliberate exaggeration of symbols so that a short phrase may represent a much longer concept ("The Pen is Mightier than the Sword" is a good example where the pen represents for writing, speech, and other communicative forms used to foster peace and cooperation, while the sword represents physical force and violence to solve problems). This is often used for dramatic effect, as your teacher has said, but it can also be to make a point or clarify a subtextual idea. This method of using juxtaposed imagery, ideas, and even characters to convey much deeper layers of subtext is not a new phenomenon. It's very pervasive in literature. Have you ever wondered why Darkness and Light are used to refer to Evil and Good? Actual darkness isn't evil, there are many things that depend on it for survival, it's a natural function of life. But by equating it metaphorically as a symbol of an abstract concept such as Evil, they suddenly have imagery they can use to clue the audience in without explicitly pointing out how evil their enemy is every time they appear in a scene. And even more pertinent. Not only can this juxtaposition and symbolism be used to emphasize things such as differences and themes and concepts the audience should be taking note of to understand the narrative, but it can also be used to hide things or to draw attention away from them. Take many old stories that depict armies against one another. There's the "Good" army whose side we are hearing from. And the "Bad" army who is the enemy. Today we tend to focus on the idea that "The Victors write History" and while i'm sure that's very true, it's missing the point entirely when it comes to much of literature. Anyone who has been in a battle, or who have soared above it as I have while looking for dead flesh to feast upon, knows that things are not actually black and white. There are good people on both sides of any conflict, and bad on both sides. There are fools and the wise. There are abusers, there are healers, there are protectors, there are the meek, the craven cowards, the pacifists, the self-righteous, the wrathful. People cannot be divided upon a line between good and evil. Not in any real way. But consider, for a moment, what it means to even try to depict that in a full narrative of any kind. The sheer amount of detail and time necessary to do the reality any justice would be staggering. Not impossible, but it would in many cases be so overwhelming to the narrative that any theme or idea the teller meant to convey or talk about would be drowned in a sea of minutiae. To tell a story is to convey at least one idea across to the audience. Often even multiple for the experienced storytellers, though it can be a lot to juggle at one time. But while stories contain multitudes of symbols already, they usually are set to work in relating to or bolstering at least one main theme or concept that fills the whole of the tale. When you have too much symbolism, too many ideas, the themes and ideas of the story are buried beneath the waves. So you see, like many things, this sort of black and white storytelling can have its uses, and it can cause harm when used without thought. In the world of narrative and literature it has its place, and you must learn how to recognize it whenever it appears and understand its purpose and effect in each different work.

#writing #quoth the raven #juxtaposition #metonymy #metaphorical language #symbolism #motif #literature #subtext #narrative structure

[distracteddaintydemon]

Isn't it neat that ass can be both a syndecdoche pars pro toto and totum pro parte? Isn't it neat that it can be both at once in the same sentence?

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#rhetoric #synecdoche #metonymy #that ass #linguistics

[astonishment-and-dread]

I love that thing where we refer to Disney as “The Mouse” by metonymy it’s just so ominous and it works so well

#we do it with The Golden Arches for mcdonalds too but it doesn’t hit the same #disney #metonymy #language #the mouse

[oceancrusher]

#cranked

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[devinstevens]

Unmerited Love

William Shakespeare is known for his famous sonnets, fourteen line poems written in iambic pentameter, the classic rising rhythm of English poetry. He likes to reflect on an important topic, until the last few lines where he reaches a conclusion based off his observations or where he has a sudden epiphany that flips what he’s just written. My favorite sonnet of his is Sonnet 116, where he…

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[sinojikai]

Spielschau. Every stage is a church. Every house is a fortress. Every pew is a festival. Every congress is a forfeit. Every thief is a gambler. Every friend is a bargainer. Every lover is a pilot. Every pilot is a passenger. Every passenger is a friend. Every face is an ambassador. Every employee is a broker. Every actor is a salesman. Every singer is a sparrow. Every bird is a comet. Every fire is a black hole. Every sea is an iceberg. Every star is a new hope. Every war is a suicide. Every movement is a fever. Every comet is a soul. Every voice is a silence. Every silence is an anxiety. Every anxiety is a wait. Every wake is a futility. Every moment is a fragment. Every second is a past. Every third is a decision. Every truth is an accident. Every chance is a direction. Every harvest is a gamble. Every crop is an opportunity. Every opportunity is a moment. Every branch is an uprooting. Every fruit is a salvation. Every farmer is a reaper. Every ruler is a child. Every child is a fruit. Every prayer is an answer. Every answer is a cloud. Every village is a crusade. Every city is a masquerade. Every party is a requiem. Every parent is an archive. Every artist is a scribe. Every scribe is a message. Every story is a mural. Every sidewalk is a road. Every highway is a rift. Every body is a glimmer. Every mind is a fallout. Every thought is a phantom. Every vision is a game. Every game is the same. Every player is to keep. What’s your relief? #poetsofinstagram #njartist #metonymy #analogy #interconnected #divinecomedy #spiritualjourney #gameshow #schauspielerin #schauspieler #alltheworldsastage #thefly #everypoetisathief #whatsyourflavor #whatsyourfunction (at Lincroft, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkQ55m7gwOy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[xvocabthiamm]

Metonymy

Definition: Substituting the name of something for an attribute of it

Sentence: Karl Jarx uses a lot of METONYMY in his works

This is a textbook representation of metonymy, showing how royal entities can be replaced by a crown and the audience still receives a level of understanding

Synonym: ___

Antonyms: Explicit, Outright

#english vocab #metonymy

[jembutterfield]

The Accession Proclamation: the full text. God Save the King!

The Accession Proclamation: the full text. God Save the King!

What follows is the full text of the Accession Proclamation, as so masterfully read by the Clerk of the Privy Council (Richard Tilbrook, CVO) at St James’s Palace on Saturday morning, 10 September 2022. By the time you read this, the selfsame Proclamation will have been read throughout the UK, in Edinburgh, Cardiff, at Hillsborough Castle, and in various cities and towns. It is such an…

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#Charles III #Elizabeth II #God Save the King! #metonymy

[zvaigzdelasas]

SMH The Mullahs have gotten to Trudeau [15 Nov 22]

#remember when it was only like virulent neocons who used that metonymy

[terrorpenned]

swapping out actors is very par for the course for a daytime soap but there's something very ... meaningful about it in this show, where everyone exactly resembles an ancestor, and those resemblances are significant to their identity and place in the world, while keeping a face unchanged through the centuries announces you as a harbinger of doom. we have known from the moment barnabas arrives that he is the ancestor in the portrait. we know that cassandra is angelique, because her similarly enduring face reveals her intentions. ancient loves are found and lost again through resemblances. victoria's identity is made and unmade in it over and over again.

#ds liveblogging. #i also think how... interesting the character shifts are after the recasts. #though again that's a very typical outcome for replacing an actor much like theatre. #the way anthony george burke is neutered of revenge. kinder. weaker. focused on the future and not the past. #betsy durkin victoria who realizes nicholas' identity and intentions and decides to proactively intervene #she who is constantly in the dark about her own narrative. #it just doesn't Work for me. not like it does in something like y&r (which i have not watched for years but did for a little while) #portraits carry too much dramatic weight. the resemblances to ancestors are too important. #not included in this post is the sam recast (net positive) and other stuff like the sheriff. the sheriff is not a Guy he's a metonymy #i also don't see any resemblance between alexandra and joan but if you say so lmao.

[anomalocariscanadensis]

thinking about the stretching of the "ransom note" metaphor in that article, I'm arriving at a contrast between metaphor and comparison that helps clarify my thoughts on a lot of discussions (especially but far from exclusively around AI). when analyzing something new or unusual, it's hard to approach it on its own terms, because we don't yet have a solid idea of what "its own terms" are. instead, we can turn to things we think we know well and try to use them to ground our understanding of the subject.

this is often a good approach! arguments by analogy are a valuable tool. but when we deploy them, we risk extending the analogies beyond where we've really established them. a simple comparison between ransom notes, collages, and LLMs says that all take in existing works as inputs and use them to produce new works; a more refined comparison notices that collages emphasize the disparate contexts of their inputs, while ransom notes and LLMs anonymize and make the input-contexts irrelevant; the analogy stretches into metaphor when it tries to find a "hostage" for LLMs to ransom.

metaphors can have literary merit, but they're not a serious analysis! and it'd be a lot more interesting to compare the function of anonymization between ransom notes and LLMs, with a serious look at their similarities and differences, instead of just falling back on "well it's like a ransom note so let's call the data a hostage". the metaphor suggests that the data is missing (it's duplicated), that it suffers in captivity (it's data), that the anonymization disguises the "kidnappers" (they make money by loudly advertising themselves), that discovering their identity could make them "return it" (again, not missing). a rigorous comparison might touch on the vast "hoard" of input data and the inherent blurring of contexts as so many combine together, the aspiration towards naturalistic output and the theatrical presentation of "AI", the homogenizing process of RLHF (and its own motivations), the copyright concerns, and so on. why, then, go for the cheap shot?

#tbc this is about like two lines in the whole article i'm mostly using it as metonymy for other discussions #the article is good you should read it #furthermore ai is a theatrical term with no technical meaning

[anticurses]

the branches blow and we sleep in dirt

#just read sidewalk/metonymy again. #:(