The creative urge
- silken – Soft, smooth and shiny
- dappled – Marked with spots of colour
- luminous – Able to shine in the dark
- docile – Quiet and easy to control
- opalescent – Reflects light and changes colour
- dollop (a small amount of something soft, like cream)
- pulp (the solid bits of fruit in juice)
- slurp (to drink noisily)
- kerfuffle (noise and excitement)
- vivacious (full of life)
ACTIVE READING |
- A metaphor is a kind of poetic device where we use a word or phrase which compares two things in order to make a description more vivid or striking, e.g., All the world’s a stage (Shakespeare).
- When the phrase explicitly says that something is like something else, that is called a simile, e.g., Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.
- When the phrase describes an inanimate object as if it were a person, that is called personification, e.g., A host of golden daffodils … fluttering and dancing in the breeze (William Wordsworth).
- alliteration – when the first sound of a word is repeated, e.g., dappled, deep-eyed deer.
- sibilance – when an s or a sh or ch sound is repeated, e.g., which circle slowly with a silken swish.
- onomatopoeia – where the word sounds like the sound being described, e.g., swish.
- Elinor Morton Wylie was an American poet and novelist of the 1920s and 1930s.
- She published four volumes of poetry and four novels, and was the editor of several literary magazines.