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Here's a piece of writing I came up with: The rolling billows rocked the mighty galleon cradling it madly as if it were but a mere child. There are many seeming contradictions: When we thin...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:41:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/41580 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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puffofsmoke
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2019-12-08T10:41:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
Here's a piece of writing I came up with: > The rolling billows rocked the mighty galleon > cradling it madly as if it were but a mere child. There are many seeming contradictions: When we think "billows rocked" we think of a powerful motion, "cradling" goes against that, and then "madly" goes against cradling and finally "as if it were but a mere child" goes completely against the idea of a powerful "rolling billow"? Is this just really bad style? It seems to have a poetic effect. Is there a way to leverage such inconsistencies to deliberately create this effect? And can it be used in novels, or only in poetry?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-01-24T20:53:01Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 2