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80What is the Difference Between a Simile and a Metaphor?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? A simile is actually a type of metaphor. This hub explains the similarities and differences between metaphors and similes.
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62Your hair, like the haze of opening leaf buds in spring time....
I see a light fuzz of hair on your head like the softness of just opening leaf buds in spring. The chemo is over,and you wait relieved and letting that take you for a while before you start to face the next stage. Will your Spring turn to a...
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76Picking Cherries, Sour Grapes, and A Bite From An Apple
Rather than be verbally pugilistic about an accusation of cherry picking, I thought the issue through and present these thoughts to you.
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86Similes
Similes are figures of speech that bring colour and life to the English language. Life is like a bowl of cherries and this article will help to explain why.
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67Figurative Languages including Hyperbole and Personification: The ABC of creative writing
Figurative language makes us view the world differently, it enhances our senses. They can be added to fiction to add colour and depth to a character, author uses it to help the reader visualize what is happening in a poem or story, speaker make the indescribable describable when explaining an event. It compares two things in such a way that you find the comparison interesting or even a bit surprising. In order words, it could be a foundation towards creative writing
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76A Poetic Primer - Poems Using Imagery and Symbolism
Enjoy reading and writing poetry more by understanding the use of imagery and symbolism. Poems with symbolism and poems using imagery capture the readers imagination and can convey deeper, richer meanings than poems without.
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52Weather The Storm
Rain Falling Slowly down At first It's such A comforting sound Then The rain Begins to pour Suddenly It's not Such a comfort anymore Slanted Leaning Into the wind Pelted By drops Clouds purge To give me binge ...
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69Tearing (short poem)
Metaphor and simile are methods of comparison and vital tools for the poet. Poetry can be literal and figurative. The literal meaning of predators devouring prey can serve as a metaphor for predatory behavior present in other aspects of society. This article explores and discusses metaphor, simile and figurative meaning in poetry.
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62A Poem: Standing There Tall
A Chinese Elm Tree is prolific, persistent, and cannot even be planted in some locales for those reasons and due to its seemingly overwhelming thirsts. Here is a simile in poetic form between the tree's millions of seeds, and today's milions of youth.
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60Types of Emcee's
Whats your favorite type of Emcee? You probably haven't thought of it before and thought that all emcees are the same, but there are many different types of rappers or emcees out there. Styles may vary from emcee to emcee, but can be put in to two...
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