https://padlet.com/monahanm1/authorstyle Choose two entries from your Author's Style Chart in your writer's notebook and create two different entries here. Be sure to include the author's name, style, an example, and the text it came from (in the form of a picture) for each author. You can also link together posts if you notice a connection between the authors' styles. en-us 2017-08-03 16:33:13 UTC 2025-12-24 11:28:04 UTC hello@padlet.com monahanm1 https://padlet.com/monahanm1/authorstyle/wish/180058298 Style:
Similes and Metaphors

Examples:
"Life is football."

"They got all smiley and stuck out their hands to shake and said like a duet: 'Nice to meet you, John.'



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Personification and Similes

Examples:
"Within an hour or two the holiday would be bounding down the stairs and squealing 'round the tinseled trees of Two Mills." 

"They tore into the bag like jackals in carrion "]]> 2017-08-03 16:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/monahanm1/authorstyle/wish/180058817 monahanm1 https://padlet.com/monahanm1/authorstyle/wish/180060050 Style:
Personification and Similes

Examples:
"Winnie blinked, and all at once her mind was drowned with understanding of what he was saying."

"He looked solid, like an oar, whereas Jesse- well, she decided, Jesse was like water: thin and quick."]]> 2017-08-03 17:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/monahanm1/authorstyle/wish/180060050