TOOLS OF THE TRADE PART 4

For this latest installment of tools of the writing trade I am going to do something different I think its apt since I am dealing with the elements of a story theme and most importantly language which is directly linked to what I am currently doing have you figured it out yet I am doing a post with no punctuation whatsoever I came across the idea on YouTube while looking through videos that pertain to elements of a story so I thought I would give it a test run to see if I like it enough to do my story in this style I have to say that I am not loving it so far it is an annoyance to my eyes and brain but one must sacrifice for ones craft right anyway enough of that time to get on with the topic at hand

Theme which according to Wikipedia is

the central idea or insight serving as a unifying element, creating cohesion and is an answer to the question, 'What did you learn from the piece of fiction?

Most people when asked what the theme of a book or movie is simply reply love or betrayal etc I have also been guilty of this on occasion but there is more to theme than that I was watching this video that a teacher posted on YouTube on theme in it he said that theme is the idea the writer expresses on that particular subject for example love is blind or love leads to heartache and pain etc

One of the themes of The Boogeyman is never give up no matter how hard or painful life is keep going because there is light at the end of that very painful and long tunnel check out the video it gives interesting insight on theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4qME64SkxM

The video was not coming up in the insert video tab so I posted the link instead

Now on to the other half of this post language to me is a beautiful thing it allows the writer to create vivid pictures in the readers mind it can also help to attract and keep the readers attention there are many literary figures of speech that help to achieve these goals I will just highlight two of my favourites in this post metaphor according to Wikipedia is

 a literary figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.

An example of a metaphor is all men are dogs the video below is a rap on different types of figurative language

Next up is simile which is

 a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as". It is different from a metaphor, which compares two unlike things by saying that the one thing is the other thing, unlike the simile that uses word like or as

For an example of a simile just look at the title of the song below