Thursday, January 15, 2009

Post 6 - Playing with Language

As we read The Phantom Tollbooth, we are going to come across ways the author creatively uses language. Be on the lookout for puns, idioms, cliches, etc. and post them here. :)
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21 comments:

  1. Miss BailinJanuary 18, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    1. "One book of rules and traffic regulations, which may not be bent or broken," (p. 13). RULES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN.

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  2. Ben A.January 21, 2009 at 4:57 PM

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  3. Ben A.January 21, 2009 at 4:59 PM

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  4. North Thirty ThirdJanuary 25, 2009 at 8:11 PM

    If rules are meant to be broken then you might as well have no rules at all.

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  5. Devon G.January 26, 2009 at 3:23 PM

    Cruse is right

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  6. Devon G.January 26, 2009 at 3:58 PM

    I found one! The awful Dynn is a noise! The Dynn resembles awful dins (sounds).
    Ozzy Osmonkey

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  7. Trent PrynnJanuary 28, 2009 at 6:43 AM

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  8. Devon G.January 28, 2009 at 9:59 AM

    I call him Cruse because Miss Bailin calls him Cruse.
    Ozzy Osmonkey

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  9. Devon G.February 4, 2009 at 3:38 PM

    One thing I think is funny is that if a number breaks, the Mathamagician uses them for fractions (because they are a fraction of a number). Another thing that is funny is that instead of being a mathamation, like math wizzs, he's a MathaMAGICIAN, like a math magic dude.

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  10. Steven WFebruary 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM

    I agree Devon and also subtraction soup, no thanks I'd rather be full than starving.I mean who does.And Devon Ozzy Ozmonkey? Cool but weird at the same time.

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  11. Devon G.February 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    It's a cross between Ozzy Osbourne and monkeys. GET USED TO IT!
    Ozzy Osmonkey

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  12. Devon G.February 5, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    One thing funny is that the Mathemagitian's magic staff is a giant pencil. Also, whenever he wants to be at more than one place at once, he multiplies. Also, the Dodecahedron has 12 faces, like faces that people have as well as 12 faces, like the faces of a cube, or in this case, a dodecahedron.
    Ozzy Osmonkey

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  13. Miss BailinFebruary 9, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    Ozzy is the Blogmaster and really committing himself to this blog. I am really proud of your self-directed learner and brilliant ideas. Keep it up!
    Smiles, :)
    Miss Bailin

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  14. Miss BailinFebruary 9, 2009 at 12:06 PM

    :)

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  15. Devon G.February 12, 2009 at 6:20 PM

    One funny idiom used in the book is when the Castle in the Air is Floating Upward, Tock saves the day when Milo discoves that "Time flies". This is funny because in the Phantom Tollbooth, time LITERALLY FLIES, while in the real world it is just an idiom saying that time goes by quickly.
    Sincerely,
    Devon
    a.k.a. the Blogmaster

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  16. Emily W.February 15, 2009 at 2:08 PM

    Milo asked Tock, "Doesn't time fly?," and Tock said on many occausions."

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  17. Devon G.February 16, 2009 at 9:30 AM

    oh shoot, I didn't see the "on many ocasions" part.

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  18. Haley M.February 19, 2009 at 4:27 PM

    The Wether Man- Milo thought he was a person who forcasts the weather, but instead he'd be a very confusing person who isn't a forecaster.

    ~Haley

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  19. Miss BailinFebruary 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM

    THERE ARE SO MANY MORE FROM THE BOOK!!!!
    WHERE IS MY LIST OF BLOG FOLLOWERS? (a.k.a. my students)

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  20. Randy E.February 24, 2009 at 5:23 PM

    The Which. Milo thought she was a whitch but really is like which is it.
    ~Randy

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  21. Lexie B.February 24, 2009 at 7:58 PM

    rules are meant to be broken but are all of them ?


    short shrift~ Milo thought he was just apolice officer but the he found out he was a sheriff then he found out he was a judge then he found out he was a jailer

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