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  2. Gabriel-Ernest - Wikipedia

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    "Gabriel-Ernest" starts with a warning: "There is a wild beast in your woods..." As the story progresses, we learn from that Gabriel is indeed wild, feral – a werewolf in fact. The story uses the idea of lycanthropy as a metaphor for adolescence. The story's climax is when Gabriel is revealed to have taken a small child home from Sunday school.

  3. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".

  4. The Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    "The Metaphor" is a short story by Budge Wilson. It was originally published in the October 1983 issue of Chatelaine magazine. [1] The story has appeared in numerous collection books. First, it appeared in the 1987 collection Inside Stories II. [2]

  5. The Golden Apples of the Sun - Wikipedia

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    I love that line in the poem, and it was a metaphor for my story, about taking a cup full of fire from the sun." [1] The Golden Apples of the Sun was Bradbury's third published collection of short stories. [3] The first, Dark Carnival, was published by Arkham House in 1947; the second, The Illustrated Man, was published by Doubleday & Company ...

  6. Parable - Wikipedia

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    It may be said that a parable is a metaphor that has been extended to form a brief, coherent narrative. A parable also resembles a simile, i.e., a metaphorical construction in which something is said to be "like" something else (e.g., "The just man is like a tree planted by streams of water").

  7. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Wikipedia

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    "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. [ 1 ] The story has also been published as " Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog " (its original title) and " The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ".

  8. The Egg (Weir short story) - Wikipedia

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    "The Egg" is a fictional short story by American writer Andy Weir, [1] first published on his website Galactanet on August 15, 2009. [2] It is Weir's most popular short story and has been translated into over 30 languages by readers. [3] The story follows a nameless 48-year-old man who discovers the "meaning of life" after he dies. [4]

  9. O Youth and Beauty! - Wikipedia

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    The story is also included in The Stories of John Cheever (1978). "O Youth and Beauty" is first of a series stories that Cheever set in the fictional town of Shady Hill, dealing with the New England suburban middle-class [ 3 ] Often anthologized, the story concerns the physical and moral decline of a former male athlete, and his failure to cope ...

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