By Numbers, Metaphors

Hi, Please read very carefully as I've made a small number of small alterations. You're welcome. Clive v COMMENTARY ( of 'Children' by 'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow') This poem starts with a call of welcome to children, for the poet sees them as our future and hope. They are the...

Could someone please look at the following question answers for grammar mistakes and weird sentences? Here is the poem The Daffodils by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the...

Don't throw eggs at me! Just want to throw my 2 cents into the debate... Figuratively speaking, no living being can run at 186,000 per hour,or the speed of light. “Stronger than the locomotive and faster than the speeding bullet” is the opening intro. In the 60’s Superman show which was a...

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Hi there! This is my second article about idioms. So if you want to create vivid word pictures, seizing the attention of your listeners to what you are saying, use more lively idioms in your speech, which will make your language more compelling. "English language is loaded with non-standard...

Hi! 3. Trying to warm his way into the confidence of the orphans' new guardian (their aunt that is a grammar freak), Count Olaf says: Count Olaf: Why, perhaps it's just the ramblings of an expert fisherman, but grammar is the number-one most important thing in this here world to me. (A man...

I assume you're asking about the word "sheet". Yes, I'd say that's a metaphor. We certainly don't speak literally of "sheets of sun". Normally we need something more substantial than light to form sheets. Also, the answer to your question depends on what type of metaphor you're asking...

Hi, I've had a quick scan and have the following comments for you. Prejudice is as black as the hours of darkness, as black as the heart of the people of this town. Do you think comparing prejudice against black people with negative metaphors of blackness is appropriate? Odd choice. I've put...

Hello I've got to find over 30 metaphors under one certain concept and I can't find such a number of metaphors. Please help me. If anyone could I would be very thankful. There are some concepts of metraphors from Lakoff but I found only15 under one certain concept so please help me!!! THank you