Sunday, November 27, 2011

Inversion

Inversion is a literary technique in which authors put words out of order in order to provide emphasis. My first encounter with inversion was watching Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. It's also in many different works of literature. For example:


  • "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."(J.R.R. Tolkein, The Hobbit, 1937)
  • "What they talked of all evening long, no one remembered next day." (Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine, 1957)
  • "Not in the legions; Of horrid hell can come a devil more damned; In ills to top Macbeth." (William Shakespeare, Macbeth)

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2 comments:

  1. isaacdlc94December 4, 2011 at 10:15 PM

    I believe you hit the Nail on the Head with your video it helps to clarify things about your description. Good Work.

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  2. Kelly BrickeyDecember 5, 2011 at 4:08 PM

    Your video was a great help to understanding the meaning of this lit term! Good work.

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