This AP lit assignment is killing me. I can't for the life of me think of any analogies, (I need five) or instances of parallelisim in fiction/movies/tv whatever. And I need a Litotes. Help. Please? Wikipedia is failing me.

You need to be a bit more specific, please

My biggest problem is coming up with analogies. I need five ones from literarture, Movies, TV, even making them up. Everyuthing is fair play, more or less, I just have to be able to tell where I got them from. My problem is, I'm having trouble differenciating between metaphors and similies and analogies, so I've already used ten things that could be an analogy, and I dont' want to use them again...

And I simply can't think of many instances of parralelisim. I've got a passage out of american gods, one out of a story I wrote, and the Ten commandments.

I also need one last instance of an elipsis. I already used the scrawl of star wars...

When I had homework I didn't understand, I didn't do it. Not doing one assignment isn't going to kill you. Look at me... I never did homework, and where am I now? Unemployed living in my parents den and watching wrestling all day.

I've missed a tonne of school this quarter and need all the points I can get. Not doing it, particularly in an AP class, is not an option at this point.

Dude, if you pick up a Bible and open it to psalms, it's full of parallellism. It's actually one of the main qualities of Hebrew poetry.

What exactly am I looking for? I mean... isn't it the general repition? Like "Thou Shalt Not... Thou Shalt not..."? Opening the thing the same way to draw it together?


Um. Nevermind. I think I found your point... Many thanks. Now to just make up a few analogies that don't suck.

That makes my quote of the week.






And hell, if you're looking for analogies, open up Moby Dick.

Somehow, I don't have a copy of that. That needs to be fixed. But I'm okay on analogies now that I get what the fuck I was looking for, but I'm at a loss on an Elipsis....

Isn't that when the moon completely covers the sun for about 3 seconds?

That's an eclipse.

OH... well, there's a reason I had to go to summer school twice for Science.

an elipsis is the leaving out of words and putting in (...). I just can't think of any instnaces where this was used in anything but a title. Well, the star wars crawl, but I need a second.

I think Red Dragon by Thomas Harris had ellipsis, but I can't guarantee it.

I acutally found some on an HP Lovecraft site. Thanks though. (In the rush to finish it I forgot bout the post here, sorry.)

Strange, my horror fandom had me thinking Lovecraft right away. Well, you found it on your own.

Good job bookworm.

Newspaper articles use ellipsis..err, ellipses...err, ellipsi... those things alot, especially when they're quoting someone.

Not the exact same use, but at the end of some cartoons, they tag on "To be continued..." But in that case, they're not exactly designating an omission, rather an open ended phrase.

But if you're talking movies or what not, which I think you were at first, a killer elipses (at the end) is in Back to the Future part II. To be Concluded..................................................