According to Mr. RadziBedu's note, Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variable, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. By juxtaposing two objects or words next to each other, conflicts between our left and right brain will happen, then our brain will automatically solve the conflicts by blending in both variables, somehow.
There are a lot of obvious example that the society is using juxtaposition to generate ideas, such as
Juxtaposition not only applied visually, but also applied literally, and it is called analogy. There are many different categories of analogies, among the most popular analogies are logical analogy and affective analogy.
Logical analogies are analogies which use similarities in the design, structure or function of to connect back to the subject. For example, a leopard can be compared with a sport car, as we know the both run very fast. A bird can be compared to a plane because of the fact that both of them can fly. Who knew maybe the Wright brothers were juxtaposing human and bird at the time they invented the first air plane.
Affective analogies are more to emotional expression. Most people used animal to explain the certain characteristic of people. Let me give you an example,
'She looks like a monkey after she wore makeup.'
Does she really look like a actual monkey after she wore makeup? No! By juxtaposing, the sentence highlighted the specific characteristic of monkey - funny, to describe 'she'. She doesn't look like a monkey, she looks funny. Get it?
More examples :
'I'm running like a horse in the competition.'
- highlighted 'fast'
'He works like an ant.'
- highlighted 'hardworking'
'She sleeps like a pig.'
- highlighted 'peaceful'
The definition of juxtaposition doesn't restrict any comparison as long as they had contrast and similarity, but that does't mean everything can be juxtaposed! Sometimes, when me merged together things that had no contrast nor similarity, the feeling is just wrong!
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| Shark-bird? |
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| Lion-bird? |
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| Eagle-turtle? |
So, remember not to make mistakes like these! However, try to look at some good juxtaposition!
Lastly, I will juxtapose something with love to write a poem. Enjoy!
Love is like a chili,
always excited on first met,
it makes you nervous,
it makes you sweat,
yet you'll never get enough of it,
because it's hot and spicy.
Love is like mortar and pestel,
both are not much alike,
but when combined together,
they just make the perfect pair.
Love is like a candle,
people see it so bright,
but always ignore the wax,
a candle without wax,
is nothing but a flameless candle.
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Exercise on Juxtaposition
Alright! Let's start with some lucky draw shall we?
First, Mr. RadziBedu didn't tell us what were those words and numbers, he asked us to write down 3 numbers with two digit randomly, so, I picked 37,49,05.
Then moving on to the next step, we are required to replace the number we chose with the word represented it...Oh my god! What the hell is this?
37 - Ice Tree
49 - Light Rain
05 - Fly Root
Next, we need to make a sentence for each combination of words, separable. After that, we have to draw out what we write. Oh boy.
The ice had frozen the tree.
After the lightning's light, here comes the rain.
The fly flies around the tree root.
Moving on, we combine the words together as one, and we have to draw out the combined word. Here's the challenging part, Mr. RadziBedu said the drawings must be clear enough to let him say out the exact combined word by just looking at them, the combined word can be similarly pronounced as other word, as long as you express it.
Guess what, I've generated some new idea! =)
Hmm...juxtaposition, considered done!
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