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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." (from "Sweet ...
The novel won several awards and honors including the 1988 South Carolina Young Adult Book Award, the 1989 Nevada Young Readers' Award, and the 1989–1990 Tennessee Volunteer State Book Award. In 2011, Locked in Time was reissued with updates to modernize the content. An audiobook based on the modernized text was released the same year.
The book is the diary that the main character, Linus Weems, keeps in his time trapped in the bunker. In his diary, we witness the arrival of the other "inmates", their struggles and their fight to figure out where they are and most importantly- to escape.
The Ministry of Time is a 2024 debut novel by British-Cambodian writer Kaliane Bradley. [1] It was originally published by Hodder & Stoughton.The novel is a sci-fi romance about a government employee in the newly founded Ministry of Time, taking care of one of the first time-travellers, known as "expats".
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.
Curtis Johnson, a middle-aged gay gentleman, is lured to a deserted construction site by his neighbor, Tim Grunwald, with whom he has been having legal disputes involving property rights and Curtis's beloved Löwchen, Betsy, who was killed by Tim's electric fence.
The story picks up a month after the events in the prior book and follows the Yanakakis family as they must deal with the aftermath of their time in the compound. [12] Bodeen stated that she hadn't initially planned to write a sequel, but decided to write one after multiple readers asked her what happened after Eli and his family escaped the ...
The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories.