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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn my first sentence I wrote “Mulan posee la belleza natural de una flor de loto.” I was trying to acheive a metaphor, but this statement is more of a simile than a metaphor. Instead, I should have wrote, “Mulan es una flor de loto: ella posee la belleza natural.” By using the verb “ser,” I could have made a more direct comparison between Mulan and her natural beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For my next composition, I described my experience at a club tennis tournament at Virginia Tech. Between the frigid temperatures and the large number of teams there, tensions were running a little high. In this narrative essay, I feel that I really captured this moment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n By using the verb “ser” this time to describe the tension, I was able to directly compare the tension in the air to a tight wire which made for a more effective metaphor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall, my creativity throughout this course has improved nicely. In my final composition, I decided to write about the advantages of living in a rural area as opposed to the city. Below is an excerpt where I described the simplicity of life in rural areas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this passage, I described living in the country as a way for families to reconnect since many distractions exist within the city. By comparing the country to the glue that strenghens families, I was able to support the idea that living in a rural area provides the simplicity and structure that families in America need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From this course and completing these compositions, I learned that varying sentence structures, adding sensory details, and writing in a clear, concise manner are key elements to an effective essay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Las composiciones At the beginning of the semester, I would say my writing skills were fair. Most of my essays were grammatically correct, but my vocabulary was limited and I tended to mix up metaphors and similes. For example, in… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16881,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16881"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/reaganrichardson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n