Similes and metaphors are both figures of speech that involve describing something in relation to something else. This is what’s happening when the Brothers Grimm describe Snow White as having, ‘Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.’
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Synecdoche is a figure of speech where a part of something is used to represent the whole. For example, a person might say, ‘Check out my new wheels,’ with the car’s wheels being used as a figure of speech that represents the whole vehicle.
Writing is about communication, and effective communication depends on understanding your audience. A book written in untranslated Japanese is unlikely to land with a mass Western audience, a book full of high-level terms and complex sentences isn’t going to set the children’s literature market on fire, and even certain ideas and ways of thinking are
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