Comments on: Want to Make Your Writing More Vivid? Use Metaphors http://problogservice.com/2009/12/01/want-to-make-your-writing-more-vivid-use-metaphors/ Number one business blogging agency Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Five Professional Secrets to Ignite Your Writing http://problogservice.com/2009/12/01/want-to-make-your-writing-more-vivid-use-metaphors/#comment-3156 Five Professional Secrets to Ignite Your Writing Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:02:15 +0000 http://problogservice.com/?p=1427#comment-3156 [...] readers know I love metaphors. Metaphors are what give language its richness, its vividness. In the family of language, [...] [...] readers know I love metaphors. Metaphors are what give language its richness, its vividness. In the family of language, [...]

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]]> By: Erik Deckers http://problogservice.com/2009/12/01/want-to-make-your-writing-more-vivid-use-metaphors/#comment-997 Erik Deckers Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:45:15 +0000 http://problogservice.com/?p=1427#comment-997 I agree that bad metaphors, or at least technically inaccurate metaphors, are better than no metaphors. However, while you can't reuse bullets, you can return fire with your own set of them. I agree that bad metaphors, or at least technically inaccurate metaphors, are better than no metaphors.

However, while you can’t reuse bullets, you can return fire with your own set of them.

]]> By: Robby Slaughter http://problogservice.com/2009/12/01/want-to-make-your-writing-more-vivid-use-metaphors/#comment-994 Robby Slaughter Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:54:38 +0000 http://problogservice.com/?p=1427#comment-994 Perhaps most fascinating is that even bad metaphors are often better than no metaphors. Saville's quip that equates words to bullets, for example, is plainly broken. Bullets cannot be reused by enemies, they are turned into misshapen metal slugs when they strike a target. Bullets leave their accelerant behind. A more accurate analogy would be arrows or maybe rocks, since you can pick them up and throw them back. It doesn't matter though, the metaphor has stuck. Metaphors are brain candy. .-= Robby Slaughter´s last blog ..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SlaughterDevelopment/~3/_LJpmOcqbmY/" rel="nofollow">Featured Article: Training Wheels</a> =-. Perhaps most fascinating is that even bad metaphors are often better than no metaphors. Saville’s quip that equates words to bullets, for example, is plainly broken. Bullets cannot be reused by enemies, they are turned into misshapen metal slugs when they strike a target. Bullets leave their accelerant behind. A more accurate analogy would be arrows or maybe rocks, since you can pick them up and throw them back.

It doesn’t matter though, the metaphor has stuck. Metaphors are brain candy.
.-= Robby Slaughter´s last blog ..Featured Article: Training Wheels =-.

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