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Essentially, this borrows from the American idiom, “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” However, this version replaces any legitimate act of reciprocation on Instagram’s part with the bourgeois values of profiteering, greed, and selfishness.

So, in reality, this use clause slightly modifies the above idiom to, “Fuck you! Scratch my back!”

A candid photo of an unnamed Instagram exec overseeing the composition of the current Terms of Use:

Recently, Vice published an article titled, “We Are With John McAfee Right Now, Suckers,” complete with a photo of McAfee and Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro taken with an iPhone 4S.

Unfortunately for McAfee (who had been wanted for questioning in Belize in a case related to the murder of his neighbor), Vice failed to strip the location information embedded within the metadata of the photo, which ultimately lead to his detention by Guatamala police.

The infamous photo of McAfee and Vice editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro:

A picture of McAfee’s location revealed by the metadata of the Vice photo:

A small rocky and barren island, one of the group called the “Sporades,” in the Aegean Sea. It was on this island – to which John was banished by the emperor Domitian – that he received from God the revelation recorded in his book (whose first chapter can be read here).

Photograph of the Port of Patmos Island:

Statue of Domitian as Emperor:

A metaphor, a derivative of an analogy, is a figure of speech in which one thing is said to be another thing in order to suggest a common quality between them: without using the comparative words ‘like’ or ‘as.’

Referring to a man as that pig, or saying he is a pig is metaphorical, whereas he is like a pig is a simile.

There are several types of metaphors.

A figure of speech involving the comparison of two different things, using as, like, or than.

Examples

She’s dark and has a mouth like unswept glass—when you least expect it she cuts you.

[Junot Diaz in “Otravida, Otravez”]

Throwing out the wicked like God did the devil
Funky like your grandpa’s drawers, don’t test me
We’re in like that, you’re dead like Presley

[Q-Tip on “Steve Biko,” Midnight Marauders]

Niggas hated on me, but I wouldn’t stop
And now life sweeter than a puddin’ pop

[Fam-Lay on “Chopper,” Tetsuo & Youth]

“Everything at Once” by Lenka is notable for the use of 18 similes with “as” in every verse:

As sly as a fox, as strong as an ox
As fast as a hare, as brave as a bear…

The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in any sequence of neighboring words. Some uses of alliteration are tongue-twisters:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Alliteration was extremely common in Old and Middle English poetry (such as “Pearl” and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight).

Poet and rap icon 2Pac made extensive use of alliteration on his song “If I Die 2Nite.” The red letters are sibilance (s-sounds, etc.) while the blue letters are bilabial plosives (P’s and B’s):

Furthermore, the symbolism within each of these sounds ties in with the theme of the song: the plosives symbolize power and anger, whereas the sibilance creates a hissing effect, in this case symbolizing treachery, like a snake.

The continuation of a sentence from one verse line to the next without a punctuated pause; in other words, reading must continue from one line to the next uninterrupted in order for the flow of thought to be preserved and make sense.

Examples:

• April is the cruellest month, breeding
  Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
  Memory and desire, stirring
  Dull roots with spring rain.

  – T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”

  

• It was looking at something farther off
  than people could see, an important scene
  acted in stone for little selves
  at the flute end of consequences.

  – William E. Stafford, “At the Bomb Testing Site”

Enjambment helps create a continuous flow of ideas while maintaining a central leitmotif through several lines. It could also be used to keep the reader reading as they would want to finish that sentence.

A recurring pattern of measured units of sound (feet and syllables, for example). The most common meters are quantitative (primarily in Greek and Latin), accentual (stress only), accentual-syllabic (stress and syllable both), or syllabic.

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