This innovative treasury of similes and metaphors from modern literature in English will delight any reader. The images were selected from over 3000 novels, for their humor, poignancy and the way they distil a vivid thought into an original phrase, e.g.: .".". hair like the insides of a Salvation Army mattress" ..". a smile like a torch with a weak battery" ..". adolescents like spies in a cold waiting room" This is an unmatched literary tool for writers, students and teachers to show how skilled authors engaged readers.
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This innovative treasury of similes and metaphors from modern literature in English will delight any reader. The images were selected from over 3000 novels, for their humor, poignancy and the way they distil a vivid thought into an original phrase, e.g.: .".". hair like the insides of a Salvation Army mattress" ..". a smile like a torch with a weak battery" ..". adolescents like spies in a cold waiting room" This is an unmatched literary tool for writers, students and teachers to show how skilled authors engaged readers.
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Very Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Jacket lightly rubbed, chipped on front hinge. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Physical description; 288 p.; 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Metaphor. Quotations, English. Simile. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall.
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