<font color=pink>I know there are some extremely intelligent people here, so does anyone know a good piece of prose(like an exerpt from a book)that is loaded in figuritve language and similies and metaphors and stuff? Id b really nice if ya could find some 4 me :D </font>

<font color=Orange>Whats Figuritive Language?</font>

Any particular subject or style? Political, Scientific, or generic? Is poetry allowed? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]

<font color=pink>You'll learn when youre older sweety :D </font>

<font color=pink>No poetry unfortunately. Its just some piece of prose that really stood out to you when you read it, doesnt matter what kind</font>

For metaphoric / simile descriptive writing Steinbeck is excellent, check out the first chapter of The grapes of Wrath for that Ms Blue

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<font color=Orange>But LB! Can't you just give me a brief description?</font>

<font color=pink>Unfortunatley i dont have a Steinbeck book on me, i read GoW for English this year, i really enjoyed it. perhapsishouldmentionthatthisisformyenglishfinalwh ichistomorrow :D </font>

<font color=pink>*groans* Cant you ask your english teacher? Bah, well...its like when youre looking for figurative language in a passage, your looking for similie, allusion, metaphor, personification...stuff like that. But this aint no english lesson!</font>

okay.... got any Peter Straub ?? wait who have you got what are your options

<font color=Orange>Lord of the Rings has LOTS of stuff like that. Why don't you root around in there? If you have the books, of course!</font>

<font color=pink>Ive never heard of him :D
Anything and anyone are options, i was thinking of taking something out of Margaret Georges 'Memoirs of Cleopatra', but its like friggin 1000 pages long and dont know what part to do</font>

<font color=pink>I know LotR has that stuff! I analyzed that book front to back! But thats exactly why im not doing LotR, i already have :D </font>

can you do poetry some of wilfred owen's war poetry is really good for what your looking for.. and you can find that online

I bet you can find something Here!

Below the big red box are links to drama and war poems...they have wilfred owen's stuff there too. :D

How about Emily Dickenson's Death Sets

[ 06-10-2002, 08:09 PM: Message edited by: Moni ]

I hope Moni's links are helpful as im goin to bed!

GOOD LUCK IN YOUR EXAM TOMORROW!

<font color=pink>Thank you Margovich(hope i spelled it right!)
Im not aloud to do poetry, i think ive found an xerpt from Cleopatra that could work, tell me what you think:

The sun had crept up in the sky, and the marvelous shadows of the Sphinx were disappearing. I stared at the melancholy face of the creature. Had we been here at dawn, we would have seen his face bathed in those first rays that are pink and soft, for he faces east. He has greeted the rising of Re for-how many years? No one knows. We believe he is the oldest thing on earth. Who built him? We do not know. Why? We do not know. Is he to guard the pyrmaids? Were they built to lie under his protection? A mystery. Sand covers his paws, and every few hundered years it is dug away. The desert blows it in again, and he settles down in his soft, golden bed. He rests, but does not sleep.

Now thats good :D . I think i even see some irony in those last sentences there. Not to much Figuritive Langy though...</font>

How about Dante? Oops, you said no poetry. The first paragraph in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is pretty famous for it, the one that begins, "It was the best of times,it was the worst of times."

Doh!! I don't know how I missed your post clearly stating No Poetry!
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My apologies!
Good Luck on the exam!

<font color=pink>I dont have any of that either. I think i might go with my exerpt, just gotta analyze it now [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>

I've heard the last page of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" termed as "The most poetic representation of the failiure of the American Dream". It's prose.
If it's metaphors that you want try looking at K.C. Cole's "First You Build A Cloud" or any book by Lawrence Krauss (The physics of Star Trek is one of his). The idea being that they are well spoken, easy to understand authors that use an incredible amount of metaphor and smilie because the subject they cover (physics) demands it. And some of the writing is quite funny too. Big plus.

DeSoya

If you dont mind a little religious content, CS Lewis is pretty good. The whole Chronicles of Narnia series is just primed and loaded and begging for someone to read between the lines. Satires are also pretty alright, try George Orwell and Animal Farm or something.

<font color=pink>Thanks for the info guys, but seeing as i dont have any of those books and im presenting tomorrow, im just going to use the exerpt i posted above, it has a good bit of iron in it :D . Peace out</font>

Gasp! No copy of "The Great Gatsby"??
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Actually, I couldn't find mine. :D Otherwise I would've posted the page. Oh well.

DeSoya