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Similes and Metaphors; from gravity
Topic Started: Apr 26 2008, 09:01 PM (281 Views)
Keira
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I personally really like similes and metaphors, and here's wondering who else likes them too, and in what way do you use them?

Currently, to get in a healthy dose of figurative language, I need to have an introspective character. My character does things like look at ceilings and try to decide whether or not they're more like that of the walls of a cave, or whatever other thing I mentioned in there.

I also like to describe the sky, personifying, and I have this odd tendancy to not describe the character, but to describe the envirornment. Except for houses, because I stink at houses. I don't know why. I just stink at them.

It's sad, but it's very true. Perhaps I need more nomadic characters.
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I don't think that describing the main character. Obviously, the character as a person should come across throughout the book, but the physical appearance is never very important to me, which is why, when in character greetings, we get to the physical appearance, I get very vague. I don't know. But I do know what the world looks like. I know how it feels, and I like making it sound pretty.

Of course, with that in mind, you do have to be careful with your figurative language or it comes across as ridiculous, over done, or purple (which is a bad combination of the first two.)
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