"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'.

No sorry. I wasn't going for a metaphor or idiom of any sort just a sentence I wanted corrected.

I think you have a mixed metaphor. Opportunity (occasionally) knocks. Then you must open the door and allow opportunity to enter. There's also, "Opportunity knocks but once." And, "Strike while the iron is hot."

Thank you very much, Grammar Geek, for your quick reply! May I ask you another question, please? Now I understand what the passage says, but am still confused with the use of ‘fare’ in that sentence. My dictionary renders two meanings;