participle
n=2
1 Verby Many Forms?
a: A participle ~
b: a man taking more than one wife
What: "Welcome to this week's edition of strange analogies!: "A participle is like a man taking more than one wife" - My English teacher"
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Writer: JPKilla
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Where: Reference Link Has Evaporated
Date: Oct 10 2013 4:01 PM
# 3922 Critique Analogy
Some Wild Phrasing
a: Participle phrase ~
b: a whippet in heat
What: "People had been putting down English movies forever, and Durgnat with his first-generation English was withering about these people, and saw the critics of English movies as being toadies to American imperialism. You gotta love him, but it's his sentences that are beyond me. I can read paragraph after paragraph and never get the gist of what he's saying, for each participle phrase is like a whippet in heat, and writhes like a live wire"
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Writer: Kevin Killian
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Date: Oct 10 2013 4:17 PM
# 3924 Critique Analogy
METAMIA is a free database of analogy and metaphor. Anyone can contribute or search. The subject matter can be anything. Science is popular, but poetry is encouraged. The goal is to integrate our fluid muses with the stark literalism of a relational database. Metamia is like a girdle for your muses, a cognitive girdle.