a practice in figures of speech

severe elev. | high elev.| moderate elev.| slight elev. || BASELINE || slight dep.| moderate dep. | deep dep. | severe dep. || anx: 0 | agit: 1


DISCLAIMER: Though the notions expressed herein seem overly sentimental (of the hopeless variety), I'm not actually that depressed. Cheers!


Chiasmus:

Rhetorical Question:
What happened in the past ten years?

Aporia:
I really can't say.

Aposiopesis + Metonymy + Personification:
What the -- ? I met with the real world and suddenly I find myself old yet unfulfilled.

Personification + Hyperbole + Correctio + Epanalepsis + Antimetabole:
The whole past decade swept by without my taking notice. Or rather -- I never took notice while the past decade swept by.

Metonymy + Hyperbole + Parenthesis + Paradox:
I slaved to work to earn (to invest in my future) but still have nothing.

Occupatio + Rhetorical Question + Synecdoche + Metalepsis + Juxtaposition + Irony + Periphrasis + Alliteration-Consonance + Parenthesis + Antisthecon + Polyptoton:
I'd hate to admit it - but I laid down my laurels - worldly wisdom, wonderments, wanton wonderlust - for this wonderful plan for my life?

Congeries:
The case renders me hopeless, trapped, despondent, devoid of will.

Tautology:
My simplicity made me foolish.

Paradox:
I changed my direction but still ended up in the same place.

Oxymoron + Anthimeria:
Insightful ignorant that I am.

Adynaton + Pleonasm + Paragoge + Periphrasis:
I can't even begin to describe how idiotically imbecillic, how sordidly wretched this is.

Anapodoton+ Metaphor + Litote + Metonymy + Polysemy + Metalepsis:
Ever the sophomore, never the graduate from the University of Life.

Metonymy + Personification + Understatement:
Responsible adulthood has overworked and underpaid me.

Onomatopoeia + Epizeuxis + Scesis Onomaton + Antanaclasis + Hyperbaton + Prosopopoeia + Synecdoche + Ellipsis + Isocolon + Alliteration-Consonance:
Tick, tick, tick, the clock over my head, ticking me off as it makes ticks on minutes gone. I detest you, clock! Why so impetuous?
I detest you, reality! You drain my youth, douse my passions and dull my dreams.

Metonymy + Personification + Alliteration-Assonance + Apocope + Zeugma:
Year after year ease into its end, I to mine.

Rhetorical Question + Metonymy + Personification:
Where the heck did the past ten years go?