I know I risk sounding like an English teacher when I use the words “figurative language.” The phrase may sound frightening but figurative language will make your writing more interesting evocative and memorable. And who doesn’t want that –even in non-fiction? Here are some examples of figurative language:
• allusion
• hyperbole
• metaphor
• oxymoron
• personification
• paradox
• simile
I read widely and follow many forms of media, keeping my eyes and ears attuned to figurative language so I can share a piece of it with you each week.
Reading time: Less than 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of similes from John von Sothen…. I will never buy a book because it has a pretty or interesting or compelling cover. But I […]
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Reading time: Less than 1 minute I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of images from American writer Mary Grimm…. I’d never before read any of the work of Mary Grimm, pictured above, a professor of English
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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 a series of metaphors from Craig Brown…. I’m not normally terribly interested in what the royal family might be up to. But when I heard (via
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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 a series of similes from writer Ellen Barry…. Ellen Barry is a London-based international correspondent for The New York Times, covering immigration, security, demographics and culture
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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 the metaphorical language of Ottessa Moshfegh…. Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author and novelist who was born in Boston with a Croatian mother and an Iranian-Jewish father.
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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 series of metaphors from Jo Hamya… Joyce Hamya is a young British novelist from East London, born to a Polish mother and a Ugandan father. She graduated
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about a series of metaphors from Taffy Brodesser-Akner…. Taffy Brodesser-Akner is is an American journalist and author. She became a full-time staff writer for The New York Times
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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 metaphors from Dennis Lehane….. American author Dennis Lehane has published more than a dozen novels and achieved fame not just as a novelist but as someone whose
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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 metaphors from Elena Ferrante…. I came late to the Elena Ferrante parade. The pseudonymous Italian novelist published the first of her four famous novels — known collectively
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Reading time: About 2 minutes I like to share interesting pieces of figurative language I encounter in my reading. I write today about similes from John Vaillant…. John Vaillant is a writer and journalist who was born and raised in Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver since 1998. His work has appeared
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