Delicious Words

 

A good writer can create a sensory experience with delicious words. Carefully chosen similes and metaphors evoke a response almost as real as an actual experience. You can hear the approaching train, or the crashing waves or the frightened heartbeat. You can see the colors of tropical flowers or green eyes. You can taste the roasted fowl, ripe peach or fresh bread. The right adjectives can make you salivate. Here are some phrases from great writing that illustrate delicious words:

 

"Human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when we want to move the stars to pity."
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

 

 "A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard."
 A Hanging by George Orwell.

 

“A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.” The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

 

“The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.” Dracula by Bram Stoker.



“The water made a sound like kittens lapping.” The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

 

“The unhappy Hook was as impotent as he was damp, and he fell forward like a cut flower.” Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie.

 

Now, how would you describe these pancakes with delicious words? 

 

Adjectives: Rich, buttery, airy, golden, savory

 

Simile: warm as a sleeping baby

 

Metaphor: He devoured the flapjacks as quickly as they came off the griddle, and they comforted him, filling his belly with the promise of many such mornings to come.