By Nouns, Metaphors

Nona The Brit wrote:Did you have to do everything in the order given or just through the poem? IT would be easier if not in order. Anyway, working through the requirements you seem to have met them (in my humble opinion that is) apart from the comments below. This was a difficult assignment...

Did you have to do everything in the order given or just through the poem? IT would be easier if not in order. Anyway, working through the requirements you seem to have met them (in my humble opinion that is) apart from the comments below. This was a difficult assignment and you have done...

I was given this assigment, kind of a nonsence poem. Here is the list: Recipe Writing 1. Begin the poem with a metaphor. 2. Say something specific but utterly preposterous. 3. Use at least one image for each of the five sense, either in succession or scattered randomly throughout the...

Hi again, In my view / In my opinion / From my point of view, Buenos Aires is less expensive than many cities in Europe. This may be ´. Once again, you've done an excellent job. Clive

Hello I was taught in school we should not use "different than". But now I am getting inclined to believe "different than" is not so bad. I feel "different than" is more versatile in use than "different from" because the latter should be followed by a noun phrase. OED says about this issue in...

Hi Serdar, Here are three definitions of 'METAPHOR': A comparison that is made literally, either by a verb (for example, John Keats' "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" from his "Ode on a Grecian Urn") or, less obviously, by a combination of adjective and noun, noun and verb, etc. (for example,...

Dear Andrewdust: As I promised, I have reviewed your short story and taken the liberty of making suggested corrections. Again, I want to congratulate you on a well written document. You have real talent that you should continue to develop. I would suggest that you purchase "The Elements of...

A Metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another — either directly or by implication. Use A metaphor often demands that the listener or reader make a powerful leap of the imagination. Some metaphors are commonly recognised whilst others are uniquely and even...