Friday, March 14, 2008

How do you rewrite the following sentence without using figurative language? "Lana eats books for breakfast."

Figurative language can be defined as language that is not meant to be understood literally.  Instead, it is language where you are saying things that are not literally true in order to get a point across more effectively.  If you write something that has no figurative language in it, you are writing something that is literally true.  So, in this question, you need to figure out how to change the sentence from one that uses figurative language to one that is literally true.


To do this, you need to figure out what this figurative language means.  We can infer that it means that Lana reads books so voraciously that she seems to be eating them for breakfast.  So, we need to change the sentence to say something like that.


For example, your sentence might say, “Lana enjoys reading books very much.”  Alternatively, it might say “Lana reads a large number of books because she is very fond of reading.”  Either way, you are getting the same point across without using any figurative language.

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