"Her hair and its long brushed flower-child fall was not exactly either orange or red, it was the deep flesh color of a whelk shell's lip; and the more you looked, the more freckles she had." - John Updike, More Stately Mansions
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Simulating society just became a $100M business.
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A related device is a favourite with #vacanas: extended #metaphor, a #simile which projects a whole #symbolic situation suppressing one part of the comparison ... (8/9)
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The chief delight of every serious poet is the play of language. Whether through #formal_verse, #blank_verse or #free_verse, #poetry is a written expression which employs #metaphor, #simile, and #imagery to express the thoughts of the #poet in their perceived ideal state.
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A #simile was a type of figure of speech that directly compared two things. Similes were often contrasted with metaphors.
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“‘Jane, I want to leave in my own way.’”
From Concrete Island, a book by J.G. Ballard (1974)
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“‘Where’s the lamp? Let’s have some light in this little hell.’”
From Concrete Island, a book by J.G. Ballard (1974)
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I used to cite this #quote from #RobertBurns as an example of #simile #similes when teaching #poetry to my #students:
“‘He won’t forget that.’
‘He wasn’t intended to.’”
From Concrete Island, a book by J.G. Ballard (1974)
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“The deep grass jostled around him on all sides like a hostile crowd.”
From Concrete Island, a book by J.G. Ballard (1974)
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Dette er i grunnen et fint sitat som vel sier mer om journalistens fremtidsutsikter for sitt lokale lag enn det gjør om Høgmo.
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overtaking lane
until the brakes failed:
my life's simile
It was a fun game
no matter the prize
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#Kyōka #micropoetry
This is a good one.
#simile
