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Similes and Metaphors: A Deeper Emotional Dive

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Memoirs are enhanced by the use of similes and metaphors. Learn to use them easily.

Since memoirs appeal to the heart rather than to the mind of the reader—one might say, it is developmentally important to create a reading experience that addresses the reader’s emotions. One effective way of doing this is to use images. The images I want to present today are similes and metaphors.

While we’ve all studied these in high school and/or college, I have new thoughts this week as to how they apply to memoir writing.

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