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Metaphorically speaking

Watch a TedTalk about using metaphors by James Geary to get you started:

The talk: Metaphorically speaking

Metaphors

After watching this lesson about metaphors, take this quiz to check how well you have understood the lesson:

The quiz

Then learn and practice some other useful metaphors with the help of these quizlets:

Quizlet 1

Quizlet 2

Quizlet 3

Similes

Watch this lesson about similes and then take this quiz to see how well you have understood the lesson:

The quiz

The learn and practice some other useful similes with the help of these quizlets:

Quizlet 1

Quizlet 2

Quizlet 3

Exercise with similes and metaphors

After writing the creative writing exercise you can do these exercises with metaphors and similes. You can't write anything on those pages, but you can think about the correct answers and the key can be found at the bottom of the page.

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

Different types of sentences (sentence variety)

Fluent writers know how to use different types of sentences in their texts ie. their texts have sentence variety.

Watch this short video lesson about sentence variety

Also watch this video lesson about
the 4 English sentence types - simple, compound, complex and compound complex

and afterwards take this quiz to check how well your have understood the lesson.

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Improve your writing: The magic of 3

After watching the video lesson about the magic of 3 take this quiz to check how well your have understood the lesson:

Quiz on the magic of 3