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Post by **Angie** on May 12, 2016 1:02:51 GMT
"Only ashes remain of the fire levy"....
It's not a pun, right?
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Post by scrapaddie on May 12, 2016 1:29:48 GMT
"Only ashes remain of the fire levy".... It's not a pun, right? are you looking for metaphor,? |
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Post by **Angie** on May 12, 2016 1:37:07 GMT
I don't think so. It's from an article about a failed fire levy.
There's the sentence about only ashes remaining, then there's one about a "topic that has been on fire...has now been put out." Oh, and another about a "burning fear" of rising insurance rates.
Is there some way to describe those comments other than extremely bad form?
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Post by ModChick on May 12, 2016 1:46:29 GMT
Hyperbole? If it truly is a gross exaggeration... I'm not sure how bad it was so...
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Post by ModChick on May 12, 2016 1:47:07 GMT
Fear mongering? Did I spell that right?
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Post by **Angie** on May 12, 2016 1:53:17 GMT
Honestly, it's like the writer tried to make as many fire-related jokes as possible.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 2:04:53 GMT
"Only ashes remain of the fire levy".... It's not a pun, right? No, not a pun. I'd say it is irony. It is ironic that some thing meant to stop fire is now ashes. It sounds like the writer of the article used lots of different types of figures of speech in the article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech |
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Post by refugeepea on May 12, 2016 2:05:56 GMT
play on words?
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Post by msliz on May 12, 2016 2:36:03 GMT
Idiom?
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Post by katiekaty on May 12, 2016 2:45:09 GMT
as voltagain said: irony
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 5:19:40 GMT
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Post by Sassenach on May 12, 2016 5:21:25 GMT
Irony
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Post by ginacivey on May 12, 2016 13:34:50 GMT
it's irony
like real irony - not alanis morisette irony
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Post by blue tulip on May 12, 2016 13:40:22 GMT
I don't think so. It's from an article about a failed fire levy. There's the sentence about only ashes remaining, then there's one about a "topic that has been on fire...has now been put out." Oh, and another about a "burning fear" of rising insurance rates. Is there some way to describe those comments other than extremely bad form? reading this, and your other post about the writer making as many jokes about it as they can, those are puns. your first example wasn't necessarily, if there are literal ashes left. but saying the topic is on fire, burning fear.. those are puns. and in poor taste it would seem.
ETA you're talking about a tax levy for something having to do with fire, right? I think others are reading it as a levy that is supposed to hold something back, as in a flood levy, and that's where they are getting irony from. regardless, the further points you made are puns.
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Post by peano on May 12, 2016 13:48:46 GMT
If you are talking about something that holds back a literal fire, the correct spelling is levee. A levy, as someone pointed out, has to do with taxation. This could be the source of the confusion.
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