{"id":7222,"date":"2018-03-16T09:15:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2018-03-16T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:13:01","slug":"describe-colorful-character-using-similes-and-metaphors-prompt-362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/describe-colorful-character-using-similes-and-metaphors-prompt-362\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe colorful character using similes and metaphors. Prompt #362"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Write about a colorful character using similes and metaphors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simile<\/b> \u2013 a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often using like<\/i> or as<\/i>, as in \u201ceyes like stars<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Metaphor<\/b> \u2013 A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another; thus making an implicit comparison, as in the evening of life.<\/i><\/p>\n

Metaphors are comparisons<\/span><\/b> that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way. Metaphors are a way to describe something. Authors use them to make their writing more interesting or entertaining.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike similes that use the words \u201cas\u201d or \u201clike\u201d to make a comparison, metaphors state that something is<\/i> something else.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Brian was a wall<\/i>, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We would have had more pizza to eat if Tammy hadn\u2019t been such a hog<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Cindy was such a mule<\/i>. We couldn\u2019t get her to change her mind.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The poor rat didn\u2019t have a chance. Our old cat, a bolt of lightning<\/i>, caught his prey.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even a child could carry my dog, Dogface, around for hours. He\u2019s such a feather<\/i>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014English Basics, Volume 3, Number 26, March 29, 1999, www.rhlschool.com<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Write about a colorful character using similes and metaphors. Simile \u2013 a figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often using like or as, as in \u201ceyes like stars.\u201d Metaphor \u2013 A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,105,342,10,11],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot-blog","tag-writing-freely","tag-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1Su","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions\/7227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}