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Figurative Language: Make Your Writing Sparkle

Figurative language can help illuminate the meaning of a story, its characters, or its theme. In this course, we’ll review pieces like “A White Heron” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor as examples of using metaphors, similes, allegories, and symbols in a story. Writing exercises include one that’ll challenge participants to breathe new life into a cliché and form new connections within a story they’re working on.

This class is taught by a graduate student in the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.


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More in this series:
Adults
Writing About Your Life: Flash Nonfiction
Plaza Branch |
August 24 |
1:00pm
Adults
Figurative Language: Make Your Writing Sparkle
Plaza Branch |
August 28 |
12:00pm
Adults
Beginning a Novel
Central Library |
August 29 |
1:00pm
Adults
Poetry on the Page
Central Library |
September 4 |
1:00pm
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Figurative Language: Make Your Writing Sparkle

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