It's a metaphor. You may create your own as long as it's common knowledge. Metaphors are packed with paragraphs: They are a creative and economical way to say more with less.

A few edits/comments... And her lover says to her that he loves her so much that he will marry her the moment she gets a divorce; no matter even if he has to challenge the very norms of the society and he is outcast as a result. And she

Hi knjiga, Welcome to the English Forums. Thanks for joining us. IMHO "Doubtlessly" doesn't fly here. Sadly spoiling your alliteration, I'd go with "Doubtless, those tributaries are divergent." The image is still

"Ancient" doesn't tell me. There are many ancient marketplaces still ... have been new back then... or was it already ncient? How many words can I afford to spend on scene description, without a reader thinking that the story's

. I suppose that this is a vocabulary and composition assignment from your teacher, but this style of writing is inappropriate for such mundane topics. I have underlined problem areas and struck out inappropriate metaphors and other words: My

Hello Guys! Please check my paragraph for mistakes and wrong wordings. And tell me, metaphor i used in opening line, can we use like this in topic sentences? Thanks! The computer, the caretaker of my studies, lies over the flat table at the

Hey guys now please check my paragraph again for mistakes and some suggestions to add good metaphors or improvements. Thanks ! The computer lies over the wooden table against the mid-wall of my room. Its gradual help in my studies supported me

Hello Grammar Geek, thanks for helping me here! Well I don’t understand the previous post. Giant size, are you saying about speaker size I should emphasis for metaphor? My light-brown table placed on the opposite side opposite side

. It does not seem like a poem-- it has no rhythm, no rhyme, no imagery, no metaphor. Without the artificial line breaks, it would be a simple paragraph: In the cold of winter, snow and ice, you gave me a match lit with fire, and only then I

When it really counts , meaning is almost never communicated according to  the conduit metaphor , that is,  where  one person transmits a fixed, clear proposition to another by means of expressions in a common language, where both parties have all