Sunday, January 27, 2013

Relaxing

Trifextra:  Week Fifty-two


The weekend challenge:  This weekend, we're sending you back to English 101 to revisit the concept of literary devices.  We want you to give us a 33-word example of personification.  Wait.  What?  You forget what that is?  It's the practice of attaching human traits and characteristics with inanimate objects, phenomena and animals (http://literary-devices.com). 




No one sits at the desk

Yet, the tiny amber eye blinks in thought
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Processing private processes in ones and zeroes.

Until someone interrupts its humming reverie with a click of its mouse.


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15 comments:

  1. i've never used a mouse but my wife does. This was like watching her play on the computer. well done

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  2. I like that - 'processing private processes'. Describes my laptop to a T, especially when it doesn't know I'm there...

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  3. Very good! Perfect for the prompt!

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  4. Well done--I often wonder what goes on inside a computer!

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  5. Processing private processes - nice :D

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  6. The light at the front of my macbook dims and brightens, as if it is breathing, when in sleep mode. You captured this perfectly in your poem. Well done!

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  7. shhhhhhh - I'm working here. :)

    well played!

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  8. I think it's only pretending to sleep as it watches you ooooo (:

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  9. Very well written-liked the idea :-)

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  10. Love the idea ofthe mouse having private thoughts!

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  11. Computers are a very popular theme for this prompt it seems!

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  12. Nice. I liked the computer working even though no one was there to work it.

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  13. Love this! Your second line is perfect and I love the idea of its "humming reverie" - wonderfully done!

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  14. always prepared... i like that in an appliance.

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  15. Nice one. Enjoyed reading this a few times.

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