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How to Use a Metaphor / Simile Hook & Examples of Metaphor / Simile Hooks

...the writing mechanism favored by poets and writers alike.

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Kerrigan Legend
Jun 02, 2023
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Often used in poems or poetic devices, metaphors and similes act as hooks and helps your reader think about your message in a different way. They force the reader to make connection. They’ll wonder what you mean and how you can compare two things or why two things are a somehow connected. Taking two things that are entirely disconnected and creating linkage with your message is wildly entertaining. 

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