Figures of Speech

Too many of a kind?








Have you noticed that The Star's MIND OUR ENGLISH has been publishing periodically articles which invariably contain figures of speech (mostly similes and methaphors) abundantly, the most recent one of such articles being dated April 9 titled Shuffle off this mortal coil?

If you fancy and think of adopting such style of writing, perhaps you should take a look at the book, "HOW TO WRITE AND SPEAK BETTER" (compiled/edited by more than ten experts and published by The Reader's Digest) which has advised in its section on Style and Structure, "A succession of metaphors or similes drawn from different fields of comparison sometimes produces a laughably clashing effect...... Beware of overspicing......Overuse is an obvious danger, then, but it is not the only one."