Lesson 6: Juxtaposition 2

In last week's lecturer had teach about the juxtaposition, it means the placement of two things next to one another. It can be used to describe anything. While in this week's lecture, we had learned that juxtaposition action also can be separate into two, analogy and oxymoron

What is Analogy?

Analogy is to use something familiar to explain a complex matter. As defined an analogy is "reasoning or explaining from parallel cases." Put another way, an analogy is a comparison between two different things in order to highlight some point of similarity.

There are two categories of analogies which is logical analogies and expressed analogy.
- simile
- metaphor

Metaphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. A metaphor expresses the unfamiliar (the tenor) in terms of the familiar (the vehicle ). When Neil Young sings, "Love is a rose," "rose" is the vehicle for "love," the tenor. (In cognitive linguistics, the terms target and source are roughly equivalent to tenor and vehicle.

example : "The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner." (Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")

Simile
A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.

example : "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
(Carl Sandburg)

What is oxymoron

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox

Example : "The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."
(George Will)


source : http://grammar.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=oxymoron&SUName=grammar&TopNode=99


Personal Reflection
The class is ended early today and a bit bored due to the way of lecturer teaching is lack of interactive.

Lesson 5: Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is the placement of two things next to one another. It can be used to describe anything from colors to balloons or even people. Besides that, it also means capturing the relationship between subjects in a photo so that each part of the image has some bearing on and relativity to the other. So, it is usually done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasing or opposing elements are used.

Example of juxtaposition :







example of how Juxtaposition can show how the same thought or object is interpreted in two different ways is love and jealousy. Love is the pen - ultimate emotion and feeling in anime. It's what makes the world go round, and it is the force that can topple.

source : http://hubpages.com/hub/Understanding-Juxtaposition-in-photography

Personal Reflection

Juxtaposition was a new to me. It helps me in stimulating creativity thinking.

The whole class was a bit bored and more of powerpoint slides that made us feel sleepy~