Friday, April 26, 2013
Trifextra: Week Sixty-Five
This weekend we are bringing you back to class with a little refresher course on compound modifiers. We are talking about two words that combine together to describe something. Such as a well-rounded individual or a one-way street or a lightly-oiled pan. Here’s a fun Trifextra trick: conventionally, if the compound modifier comes BEFORE the word it modifies, it requires a hyphen and counts as one word. If it comes AFTER the noun, it doesn’t need a hyphen and counts as two.
For example:
The well-read woman had an extensive vocabulary. (7 words)
The woman was well read and had an extensive vocabulary. (10 words)
Your challenge this weekend is to give us 33 words about anything you want. Your piece must include at least one hyphenated compound modifier. Remember that the hyphen will join your two words together to create one, so you will have a bit more wiggle room with your word count and language. You are free to use more than one hyphenated modifier in your post, but we ask that you be careful not to sacrifice readability in the process.
My entry: (Unfortunately, I missed the deadline)
Love of My Life
An oft-borne love withstood the test
Of near-fatal proof around the rest
Its mind didst shine with such a gleam
Only heart over-powered that beauteous beam
And gave more glory to the rest
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Namaste,
Scott
Comments
Like the rhyme scheme.
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Thank you.
I had fun with it.
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Oh Scott, that is beautiful! Thanks for writing it:)
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I enjoyed writing it.
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Beautifully done Scott! Thanks for sharing your link!
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Thank you. I will try to make the deadline next time.
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You are welcome. I am glad I found Trifecta.
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You better start participating more often! This was fantastic!! I can not wait to read your future contributions 😀 Great poem
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Well, thank you. I don’t know where the words came from, but I liked them, too.
Scott
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Nice one… here’s the link…http://www.trifectawritingchallenge.com The new one closes in 2 days 23 hours and 19 mins… and counting.
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This is lovely. Thank you for stopping by my own so I could find this.
The weekend challenge ends on Sundays at 8pm EST.
Hope to see your work again.
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Thank you so much.
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It appears I forgot to close my tag on the link in the last comment. Whoops!
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no problem, just gave me more to click on.
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Excellent use of compound metaphors!
I’m the HBIC (that’s Head Buttmunch In Charge) from the Undead in the Netherworld blog. I also have my own WordPress blog, but it’s not nearly as much fun.
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I need to seriously take some time to look at “Netherworld” as I have loved the entries I have seen come out of it.
I love horror and have even published some stories over the last couple of years.
Hope you get a chance to stop by sometime; I will try also.
Thanks,
Scott
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You’re so clever, Scott 🙂
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🙂 If I had been really clever, I would have done it in time to get it posted on the Trifecta post.
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Wow impressive!
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Well, thank ye.
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you’re very welcome, i meant it whole heatedly. 🙂
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