Sarah W

Saturday Mix – Double Take, 2 September 2017 

Hi, and welcome to the Saturday Mix for 2 September 2017!

I’m Sarah and I’ll be taking over the reins for this prompt, from Teresa. I hope you enjoy the challenges I have in store for you!

A little about me…
I am a primary school teacher, who is passionate about writing. Just give me a good thesaurus, some nice stationery and I’m pretty happy! You can read more about me by clicking here.

The Saturday Mix will live up to its name, as I will host a mix of challenges – a different one for each week of the month. The schedule will run as follows:

Week 1 – Double Take
Week 2 – Same Same But Different
Week 3 – Opposing Forces
Week 4 – Lucky Dip

The Double Take
This week’s challenge is called ‘Double Take’. It focuses on the use of homophones* to build your writing piece. You will have two sets of homophones and you are challenged to use all four words in your response – which can be poetry or prose.

Because I’m new to this whole hosting thing, we are going to use this as the theme for our first homophone set:

new – not old
knew – past tense of know

I’ve chosen our second set of homophones because I have Scottish heritage and it’s also a wee part of  my username:

wee – very small; a little
we – us

You may be thinking to yourself, How can I use homophones in my writing?
Luckily, Kat at Literary Devices, has some examples for you.

Example of Homophones in Literature
This poem is filled homophones (marked in bold). They create a humorous effect in the poem through having the same pronunciation but altogether different meanings.

“Sole owner am I of this sorry soul…
pour out corruption’s slag from every pore—
whole slates scrape clean! they leave no gaping hole.
Role that I’ve played, loose grip! while back I roll,
or dodge each wave, or with firm grip on oar
bore through this sea, snout down, just like the boar”

From “Where Truth’s Wind Blew” by Venicebard

Source:  LiteraryDevices Editors. “Homophones” LiteraryDevices.net. 2013. https://literarydevices.net/homophone/ (accessed September 2, 2017)

In summary, the purpose of using homophones in literature is to create humorous effects by using words that have two or more meanings. These give meaning to a literary piece of work, and reveal the ingenuity of writers and their characters through the use of homophones.

From one ‘wee jars’ to some others…

Image credit monicore via Pixabay

Good luck with your first ‘Double Take’ – I can’t wait to see what you come up with! Feel free to use the image too. Don’t forget to tag ‘Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’ and ‘Saturday Mix’, and hashtag #DoubleTake.

As always, make sure you link your fabulous creation to the helpful Mister Linky.

Happy Homophoning!

* In linguistics, a homonym is one of a group of similar words that have different meanings, depending on when they’re used. A more restrictive definition sees homonyms as words that are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling).

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  1. Reblogged this on By Sarah and commented:

    This is my first post as the new host for the Saturday Mix at Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. If you haven’t checked out their prompts and challenges, you absolutely must! Would love to see you join in the Double Take.

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  9. Welcome welcome welcome 🙂

    LOL@the weirdness of writing to your own prompt! It’s a bit odd at first – but you get used to it – and sometimes, you can just prompt and then sit back and read and enjoy what other’s are doing with the ideas 🙂

    And so, off to a wonderful start – I may have to actually pick up pen and play with this for a bit …. and so, may you have fun prompting at MLMM 🙂 I’m sure it will be a delight.

    And a thank you to Teresa for all her time and wonderful prompts too – best wishes to her in her endeavours 🙂

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    • Thank you so much Pat. I have really enjoyed seeing what others have done with the prompt. I find it fascinating the diversity of ways the challenges are interpreted and responded to.

      I have some big shoes to fill after Teresa and I too, wish her all the best in her endeavours. She has been very helpful in starting me off in the right direction for the Saturday Mix 😃

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      • I’m confident you’ll bring just as much dynamism to the creative prompting as Teresa 🙂

        It’s cool – isn’t it, reading how people write and create to an idea – LOL – and here we are doing it willingly – maybe that makes us good students, so eager and excited?! 😉

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