Thursday, December 4, 2008

Diction

Diction

Other than the color, what comes to mind when think of lipstick color?
When I first heard the phrase, "lipsticked girl", I thought about a prissy girl who likes to wear make-up or change her appearance to make herself look beautiful.

How will it change the meaning and feeling of the line if instead of the "lipstick girl" it was "the girl with the lipstick on"?

If the phrase was changed to "the girl with the lipstick on", it would be a plain description of the girl in question and make the audience bored with the author's writing.

Write a simile comparing a tree to a domestic animal. In your simile, use a word that is normally used as a noun (like lipstick) as a adjective (like lipsticked).

The Coast Rewood is like a towered basketball player.

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