figurative language
1. When I first saw her, my soul began to quiver. (I fell in love/in a panic)
2. Mary is as beautiful as a rising sun
3. Those flowers are as delicate as a spider web.
4. The sharp teeth of the cold wind bit through my overcoat
5. My love is like a red, red rose.’ Here a person is compared to a flower in a way that suggests they have certain features in common, such as beauty, fragility, and so on.
6. ‘The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.’ Here the image of the moon in a cloudy night sky is merged with that of a sailing ship on stormy seas, so that some characteristics of the latter are transferred to the former.
I was a normal boy, growing up in a normal way, taking the ways of the world for granted... It is hindsight that enables me to fix that as the day when my first small doubts started to germinate."
I hesitated, but childhood is a time thickly beset with incomprehensible, though important, conventions, so I withdrew a few yards and turned my back."
When I did succeed in getting the foot free, it looked queer: I mean it was all twisted and puffy - I didn't even notice then that it had more than the usual number of toes..."
"Her trousers were worn through at the knees, and the knees themselves were sore and bleeding.I had never known anyone, boy or girl, who would have kept on till that pitch; it awed me slightly."
The commandments and precepts one learns as a child can be remembered by rote, but they mean little until there is example - and, even then, the example needs to be recognized."
2. Mary is as beautiful as a rising sun
3. Those flowers are as delicate as a spider web.
4. The sharp teeth of the cold wind bit through my overcoat
5. My love is like a red, red rose.’ Here a person is compared to a flower in a way that suggests they have certain features in common, such as beauty, fragility, and so on.
6. ‘The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.’ Here the image of the moon in a cloudy night sky is merged with that of a sailing ship on stormy seas, so that some characteristics of the latter are transferred to the former.
I was a normal boy, growing up in a normal way, taking the ways of the world for granted... It is hindsight that enables me to fix that as the day when my first small doubts started to germinate."
I hesitated, but childhood is a time thickly beset with incomprehensible, though important, conventions, so I withdrew a few yards and turned my back."
When I did succeed in getting the foot free, it looked queer: I mean it was all twisted and puffy - I didn't even notice then that it had more than the usual number of toes..."
"Her trousers were worn through at the knees, and the knees themselves were sore and bleeding.I had never known anyone, boy or girl, who would have kept on till that pitch; it awed me slightly."
The commandments and precepts one learns as a child can be remembered by rote, but they mean little until there is example - and, even then, the example needs to be recognized."