According to the answer from Vorpar, stress is more of a state of mind, while pressure is the external force. I guess "give ground to" is a war fighting metaphor. In the old fashioned wars, you fought over a piece of ground. "To

Sky is a big place - "flying solo" in such a big sky is difficult, don't feel ashamed to have failed.She's continuing his metaphor. One too many names - no, this sounds like he's added another name as author and she thinks

Sorry, Pernickety. I didn't tie that up very well! The metaphor obviously alludes to the artist's brush. I should think it would be used figuratively to favorably describe the work of other creators, such as God's work in laying out a

"Writ large" is poetic. I'd say "writ" is an archaic version of the past participle, "written." Your excerpt sounds like a clever mixing of reality and metaphor. "The artist's touch" = a fingerprint??

Simile: You are like a monkey eating a banana. Metaphor: You are a monkey eating a banana. CJ

Hi The following sentences appears in Ken Follett's "The Pillars of the Earth", first page in prologue. "The small boys came early to the hanging. It was still dark when the first three or four of them sidled out of

Something which rumbles is both unsettling and unsettled. By it's nature, it's unstable - in constant turmoil. So you refer both to the unstable thing - the storm; the earthquake - and to it's unstabilizing effect on you . When we

Anon, Is this an order?. Or are you requesting help? Here are a few helpful hints: Learn to use the word "please". Capitalize the proper places. Your article had quite a collection of "big words" which were

No, you underline the words that you think are metaphors, and then we will check your effort.

There is no way of judging accurately without context. Perhaps it means 'I am not sentient'.