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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Spanish: Cien años de soledad, Latin American Spanish: [sjen ˈaɲos ðe soleˈðað]) is a 1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo.
A simile (/ ˈsɪməli /) is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1][2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
Edith Thacher Hurd (September 14, 1910 – January 25, 1997) was an American writer of children's books. She published 70 books in her lifetime, [ 4 ] fifty of them illustrated by her husband, Clement Hurd .
A Dictionary of Similes is a dictionary of similes written by the American writer and newspaperman Frank J. Wilstach. In 1916, Little, Brown and Company in Boston published Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes, a compilation he had been working on for more than 20 years. It included more than 15,000 examples from more than 800 authors, indexing ...
Eumaeus. Bonaventura Genelli, Odysseus sits by the fire as Eumaeus discovers Telemachus at the entrance of his hut. In Greek mythology, Eumaeus (/ juːˈmiːəs /; Ancient Greek: Εὔμαιος Eumaios meaning 'searching well' [1]) was Odysseus ' slave, swineherd, and friend. His father, Ctesius, son of Ormenus, was king of an island called ...
John Codman Hurd (November 11, 1816 – June 25, 1892) was an American lawyer and author. Hurd, son of John R. and Catharine M, (Codman) Hurd, was born in Boston , Mass., on November 11, 1816. His father was a merchant in New York City , and he had spent two years in Columbia College before entering the Sophomore class at Yale College .
Linguistics. Literal and figurative language is a distinction that exists in all natural languages; it is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language uses words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their denotation.
Simile. The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as". A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms. Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects."