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Review - Travel: Poor man's Venice off the African coast There are no cars on Kenya's Lamu archipelago; you travel by dhow or donkey. Lindsay Hawdon explores its coral seas, white sands and eerie ruins
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THE ROPES were thrown back on to the deck and the boat-taxi
drifted away from the mainland and out across the lagoon. I should
have been looking at the view, but our captain, who was howling with
mirth at a joke he was sharing with the first mate, had just spat a
set of false teeth on to the deck. They had landed by my feet. The
captain seemed not to have noticed, and I was unsure as how best to
deal with the situation.
I bent down, picked them up and made a discreet attempt to place
them in his hand. "Ah ha," he exclaimed, holding the teeth high
above his head for all on the crowded deck to ...
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Pre-facing simile vehicles in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets.(Critical essay)
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; ...argues, but between "illustrative simile, and modeling simile or metaphor." It is the latter that...in a modeling than in an illustrative simile. The most effective and original modeling similes, as Eva Kittay explains, are those...
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"So stretched out huge in length": reading the extended simile.
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; ...study of the extended simile may offer some insights...trope and genre. Homeric similes often interrupt a story...which examined the simile in relation to the literal...nature is what makes simile, and not metaphor...matter of implication, similes appear in a limited number...
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And now, similes as graceful as a sculpted sentence
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; ...have been examining similes, trying to analyze...winners in our Grand Simile Contest of 1991...combination of metaphor and simile that won Best of...more than 10,000 similes. The "graceful...at the scores of similes that were based upon...Every word of a simile has to be in the...
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Stormy weather!(Skill: Use Similes and Metaphors)(Brief article)
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; ...You might want to use similes and metaphors to get your point across. A simile compares two things using...statement. Examples: Simile The yard looked like...witnessed. Be sure to use similes and metaphors to make...descriptive. Answer Key 1. simile, 2. metaphor, 3...
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Similes as slick as a watermelon seed
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; ...Today we are talking similes. The good ones combine...Take apart an effective simile, and you won't find...from the page of student similes: "Long separated by...editing would save that simile, but it serves to make the point. Keep your similes tight, and keep them...
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Winning Similes Keen As a Sharpened Eye
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; ...winners in the Great Simile Contest of 1994. In Section One, we sought similes for something having...judge this year's Great Simile Contest I set aside the...years. They knew a good simile when they hit one. Their...along - that the best similes come from keen observation...
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A simile is the explicit comp ...
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; ...compression. By contrast, the simile is a form of analogical...digressive impulse in similes that keeps extending...Breton). All good similes depend upon a certain...being compared. The simile asserts a likeness between...Pablo Neruda thinking in similes in his magisterial early...
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As Forlorn as a Mountain of Also-Ran Similes
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; The Great Simile Contest of 1993...contest sought similes for "slender...good, but the simile lacked oomph...10 stock"? Similes should have no...do not a good simile make. Most of the also-ran similes suffered for want...
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Similes that are `as serene as a snowman's smile'
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; ...in the contest to provide a simile for "serene." The winner...awarded a $25 prize for the best similes for slippery, serene, rough...send in more than 10,000 similes. Entries came from all over...of the elements that make a simile work. A simile should be compact...
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Similar similes.(Skill: Use Figurative Language)
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; Similes are statements that...that best completes the simile. 1. Brian is as smart...that best completes the simile. 11. He is as skinny...a--. 15. Write a simile comparing someone or...include at least three similes.
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