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Language: simile, metaphor and noun-verb stress
Use comparisons and stress words correctly.
A simile compares two things openly, using 'like' or 'as': her jacket balloons out 'like a tent'.
A metaphor applies a word to something it does not literally mean: to 'melt the ice in her son's eyes' means to warm his cold, distant look.
The story is full of both: the red line like an earthworm, the tape as a viper, nails like a sea shell.
Some words are both a noun and a verb. The noun stresses the first syllable (OB-ject); the verb stresses the second (ob-JECT).
The vowel of the first syllable changes too: it is full in the noun and weak in the verb: CON-duct (noun), con-DUCT (verb).
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