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Exercise Your Figures > Exercise 10: Name that Mug

Word Hero Chapter One

Page 7: "The more surprising figures mug the audience's expectations." The word "mug" is a device. Can you name it? Write a sentence that uses the device in a similarly unexpected way.

May 31, 2011 | Registered CommenterJay

Since we're applying intention to the figure - it wants to mug the audience expectations, it feels like a personification trope.

eg: The Word Repeater device bludgeons the point into audience's memory.

February 11, 2013 | Unregistered CommenterDattaprasad Godbole