Prompt: Fill in each phrase with the first metaphor that comes to mind: Blue paint spilled on the road like _____, Graffiti on the abandoned building like ____, the dice rolled out of the cup toward Veronica like _____, _______ is like muscles stretched taut over bone, music in the hallway like ______.
Source: fictionwriting.about.com
Response:
Blue paint spilled on the road like royal blood.
Graffiti on the abandoned building like an overlaying fabric of scars and tattoos.
The dice rolled out of the cup toward Veronica like summersaulting leprechauns.
The thin canvas is like muscles stretched taut over bone.
Music in the hallway like the sound of children laughing.
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I am trying to enthuse my students about paining images with words. I will use these prompts tomorrow and see what gems I can unearth from the depths of my students' brains! Some are very talented, and I can't wait to see what comes up : )
ReplyDeleteAs a novice, I regularly turn to others' writing for truly inspirational metaphorical comparisons. I love the descriptions in Memoirs of a Geisha; for example, in the very beginning Sayuri describes her father's elderly face as, " ... very heavily creased .. it wasn't his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests in all the branches" (10).
ReplyDeleteIn a description of herself as a beauty who originated in a "dumpy" place like Yoriodo, she calls herself "tea made in a bucket".
-Just two of dozens of fresh new ways to make comparisons- this book if full of them!