Emerald Wells Café and Bakery 46, Thanksgiving Speakeasy Night

Source: Mockingbird Books

The sign on the store front read, ‘Emerald Wells Cafe and Bakery’. Each morning at 6 a.m. Emmy turned the key in the front door, hit the lights, turned the little sign with the clock hands facing outward announcing ‘Open’ and made her way to the coffee machine to get the first pot brewing.

Rose’s Bakery Truck tires hit the gravel of Harold and Em’s drive and made that warm inviting crunching sound as the truck made its way around back. Earl was driving. They came in the bakery truck because the metal box Earl had fitted to draw heat from the exhaust pipe kept the two turkeys, that he had prepared at the Café, warm.

Simile, Metaphor, and Personification: A Brief Guide to Figures of Speech, Written by an English Instructor

Figurative language, or figures of speech, are rhetorical devices used by writers and speakers to give words meaning beyond their usual, literal definition. There are many different kinds of figures of speech, including simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, metonymy, and synecdoche. Here, I'll just cover a few of the basics likely to come up in an introductory level high school or college English class, with annotated examples provided for each type.

Similes are a commonly used technique in advertising. One example is the slogan for the Chevy Silverado, which emphasizes the truck's toughness by claiming it's "Like a Rock." Another is the catchphrase "Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there."

English Poems about Birds and some Bird Proverbs

English Proverbs about Birds

Wild birds have always been part of our lives whether we're more familiar with feral pigeons living in town, blackbirds in a suburban garden or lapwings out in the countryside. It's not surprising that birds have made their way in to our conversations by means of proverbs, sometimes urging us to follow birds good example such as "the early bird catches the worm." others demonstrating superstitions that grew up around certain birds like the magpie.

A Shorter Variation of the Magpie Counting Chant

One for sorrow, two for joy

Three for a girl, four for a boy

Five for silver, six for gold

Seven for a secret never to be told.

Don't Kill the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg

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