Reading time: Less than 1 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors and personification from novelist Sarah Waters. I’ve now read three Sarah Waters novels. The Paying Guests was not my favourite — not by a […]
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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a clever bit of personification from Anthony Lane. Is it possible to personify a person? I think it is, is if person is dead. And if the writer
He will glow a covetous green… Read More »
Reading time: About 1.5 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a metaphor and piece of personification in a story about the firing of New York Times editor Jill Abramson… As someone who worked as a senior editor,
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Reading time: Just over 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about some figurative language employed by Colum McCann. I read the Colum McCann novel Let the Great World Spin more than seven months ago. It took me
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Reading time: About 1 minute I like to share interesting figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a piece of personification by novelist Ian McEwan I’ve recently become intrigued by the trick of personification. Why does giving a human characteristic to an inanimate object, such as a
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Word count: 204 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. Today I present an image from novelist Linda Spaulding. I’m not sure I fully understand the bubble-bath of praise in which Linda Spalding is reclining. Her
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Word count: 212 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. Today’s comes from Sebastian Barry, author of The Secret Scripture. Following a recommendation by my readers Margaret and Seamus, I just finished reading the novel The Secret
A little tide that would not be coming in again… Read More »
Word count: 284 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute I read widely, watch movies and listen to the radio. In today’s post you’ll see an interesting piece of figurative language by Nathan Heller I encountered recently. A columnist for Slate Magazine and a film and TV critic for Vogue, Nathan Heller grew up
Where the Pacific Coast Highway hiccups inland… Read More »
Word count: 225 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute I read widely, watch movies and listen to the radio. In today’s post you’ll see an interesting piece of figurative language I’ve encountered recently, this time focusing on personification. You know, I never fully realized how much I appreciated personification
The footsteps of evolution can be hard to retrace… Read More »
Word count: 345 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute A great way to improve your writing skills is to emulate the work of others. That’s why, every week, I present a sentence that I’d happily imitate. Today’s comes from Rachel Joyce, author of the Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry….
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