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Is there a word for the literary device of stating something directly in very plain terms that yet the words carry an immense weight. It's a quality I notice in Biblical language and I think Neil Young lyrics but somehow not that common.

>> No.9708084

biblical allegory

>> No.9708091

>>9708070
BROTHER

>> No.9708099

i wonder if piggo will go home, rapt on high, full of divine inspiration, and lay down some stanzas

>> No.9708116

Imagine being that pig and realizing that you have been bred to be a stuff of food.
His body is the way it is for the sole purpose of providing food for his human overlords.

I feel a deep and dreadful existential angst just by looking at him.

>> No.9708125

>>9708116
>tfw be piggu
>have purpose
>be comfy

>> No.9708133

>>9708116
>His body is the way it is for the sole purpose of providing food for his human overlords.

ever seen a wild boar you fag?

>> No.9708137

>>9708116
>Imagine being a human and realizing that you have been bred to provide labour for an uncaring land baron.
>Your body is the way it is for the sole purpose of providing labour for your human overlords.
>I feel a deep and dreadful existential angst just by looking at you.

>> No.9708148

>>9708133
You clearly haven't because the morphology of a wild boar is different, even feral pigs originating from domestic stock do, these highly domesticated pigs don't last
Also lighten up I was having some fun

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>>9708137
Humans haven't been selectively bred but I enjoyed your comment any way
Would be interesting to research whatever humans are undergoing a similar self-domesticating process as wolves and cats underwent (before they were selectively bred, that's the theory)

>> No.9708245

>>9708220
we already are selectively bred, in case you didn't notice europeans interbred with neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago and created white people

>> No.9708301

>>9708070
A techniques is something that can be employed to varying results. You're talking about the results.Good writing us not a technique. Go to the examples you're talking about break them down more completely. Knowing the bible it's probably these: parallelism and metaphor.

>> No.9709660

>>9708070
Formality.

>> No.9709751

>>9708245
Everyone has neanderthal DNA except Sub-Saharan Africans. Asians also have more neanderthal DNA than whites.

>> No.9709763

>>9709751
>Asians also have more neanderthal DNA than whites.

germans have the most, which is why they are also the strongest, and why blacks are so weak

>> No.9709769

>>9708220
>Humans haven't been selectively bred
This is an asinine statement.

>> No.9709772

>>9709763
You either jest or have no idea what you're talking about.

>> No.9710272

>>9709769
No it is not
You and >>9708245 seem to not understand what selective breeding is

>> No.9710329 [DELETED] 

>>9708116
Yeah, it's truly terrible. Despite their reputation pigs are among the cleanliest, most intelligent animals. I have a pet pig and he's loyal, perceptive, sometimes a little devious (but I forgive him), and has a rich and complex emotional life.

>> No.9710455

>>9708220
>Humans haven't been selectively bred but I enjoyed your comment any way
I'd present the modern American Negro.

>> No.9710477

>>9708070
>Laconism
From Latin Laconia, from Ancient Greek Λαkεδαίμων (Lakedaímōn, “the region surrounding the city of Sparta”)

Terseness or succinctness of style or expression.