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[quote author=Jekyll & Hyde][color=#000033]Done. Thanks.

Lol @ highlighted; you're an introvert, too.

My alter ego? Hmmm, let's just say it's the crazy side of me. Do you have one?[/color][/quote]no am not introvertish, i dangle inbetween it and extrovertish


and well, judging by my research on this alter ego ish, i think i have one. Its a side of me that's so troublesome and uncaring of people's feeling and well has a little slant towards the darkside with a taste for blood and a desire to crush and hate the male folks

but am learning to subdue it

ibkaye: lol no I'm just good with languages

oh okay do you also understand hausa?

ibkaye: Lol, don't worry, with practice you will be as good at the language as me

as you? How so?
Are you married to an ibo!
oh no! You're ibo!

[quote author=Jekyll & Hyde][color=#000033]Hehehe. No wahala, he'll pay through his nose if it comes to that.

Okay, I think I'll steal copy, paste and save it then. Then, rinse and repeat for your new siggy which comes up tomorrow (perhaps). [/color][/quote]you can copy and paste, no p. Its not copyrighted.

So i hope you're feeling chatty now, u know with the introverty ish well, i want you to tell me more about this alter ego of urs. I just learnt of it recently myself, tell me more abt it please

ibkaye: Correct, I was just testing you

really? well am still a naughty 'my mama say i be ibo' girl

[quote author=Jekyll & Hyde][color=#000033]Thanks. Don't mind the Briton, I'll still get him and he'll pay for that.

Your siggy is...





Inspiring.[/color][/quote]lol, and make sure u make him pay for wasting the vowels


and as for my siggy, it has over stayed its welcome, so get inspired all you can now

[quote author=Jekyll & Hyde][color=#000033]Lol, miss introvert.

Sup, Princesa?[/color][/quote]hi, ur siggy is funny though

ibkaye: Lol it means good evening right? Princess dear, some help here please

and you're right tweety, it good evening indeed in ibo

ibkaye: Lol thank you jare

u're welcome tweety, but we are yet to win the case

Divepen: mumsy thatz the way we were tot in d univ.
Yoruba will call it 'Afiwe Tara'
that is a direct comparison..if i want to compare you directly with princess diana ..i would say she is as beautiful as princess Diana but indirectly u r princess diana ...indirect comparison brings the question of how
e.g he is a lion --people as how

and i don't doubt that comparisons such as that can be made, that's not my point! The example you gave are perfectno doubt.

All am saying is that the real answer to ur question is metaphor and not simile, because a comparison without the use of 'as' or 'like' is called a metaphorical comparison...

Now using your example,

he is like/as a lion when it comes to meat = simile

he is a lion when it comes to meat = metaphor

do you get what i mean now!
Phew!

yet you say you did only a crash course in literature, well dude, you are proving that wrong and are doing excellently well with the review


so about my poem, can i defend the flaws you mentioned you saw in it?

hello mr. Introvert

Divepen: when something is compared directly it is used to point at that thing directly by using as and like

pls Google it sir

Divepen: Okay vantee----1 point for not checking Diamondwriter's spelling

Diamondwriter-----5



New Question
what are the dominating genres of literature in Nairaland

romance

Divepen: chocopearl-------

what are you saying teacher!

its metaphor Jo, direct comparison without the use of 'as' or 'like' is metaphor,but when you use those twin its called simile...

now share the one point between me and pweeety crush ibkaye

err.. metaphor

VanTee20: Shinua Ashebe...

omo yoruba ni e gan

Ohibenemma: Great update.., but while one can never replicate the mind of the author, one may be tempted to draw out certain points which may seem (not too) realistic.
Izu's final parting with Kite was one of such. The landing was too soft - the writer seemed in a hurry to be done with that part. This could have been made more realistic by indicating in the previous chapters that Izu was (no longer) VERY KEEN on Kite. This was never done. I doubt if guys give in so easily and WITH SUCH GRACE on one they REALLY LOVE. They can give up, but not so gracefully as if it's VERY NORMAL.
Secondly, the author continues painting the picture of flagrant insincerity on Kite, especially with regards to Ise, yet making Ise appear desperate, WHILE MAKING HIM APPEAR THE IDEAL MAN. Men don't combine such traits, I think. A man like Ise loves deeply, but not blindly. While they don't rush into relationships, they are conscientious to a fault. Nothing kills their passion more than signs of insincerity in their partner, NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY LOVE(D) SUCH. This is because they are highly principled and detail driven.
The sudden admission by Kenny was too SUDDEN. He wasn't actually at the end of the rope YET to start rattling so much. It made him appear too feminine.
And finally, FOR NOW, I remember reading a book by Chukwuemeka Ike on writing, where he touched on character development. This includes, amongst others, their diction. While some statements like "I'm SO done with you" with emphasis on the 'so' may not pass for conventional grammar, they could be taken as an individual's mannerisms, but when such cuts across the diction of different characters in the same work, it becomes a weakness of the author. In reality, people rarely talk alike, except in cases of one trying to imitate the other - peer factors. Some prefer the usage of 'yea' to 'yes', 'em' to 'hum' etc. This is also reflected in different writers writing differently. Eg Wole's work tend to appear more laborious than Chinua's.
Thanks...yourz zincerely.

you're so on point on the bolded...especially the dialogue part, inbetween reads, i hear Ise using diction that me thinks don't go well with how he had been painted, sometimes they come across as weak and ordinary, even flattery...this i notice is more pronounced during discourse with Kite. maybe that's because he's so in love?

Anyway, you pointed out loopholes in the story and they are true, hopefully repogirl would work on them during final editing...

And i must add, i love comments like this on a story

Sanguine: Waoh! So eager to see how this ends up...

Princesa biko shift for me small, ah nor fit sidon for back...

oya na, no qualms, abeg follow me chop this popcorn

Asakel: Princesa's poem was a bomb.
Wow!
And I love it how it ends in 'refrain' Kudoz sis.

i hope we can still pick ur pieces


thanks bro

That you dear for dropping a comment, glad to please you and hope to see u in the next piece

Evysweet: Aww.....such a wondaful story.....thumbs up to u gel....u r d Nora Robert of Nigeria

thank you evy, you Give me so much credit, thanks for reading and dropping a comment

obofuro...hope u get ur chance

Aliyeous: Dear diary:am definitely following @slickest nyc wryt up @princesa hy bn a wyl

hi you too, am aiit and chilling

Damex333: if i tell you say you no gud, you go talk say you gud abi? Wat abt d person that always help you in finding you characters. Owkay na.

kai! See my life?
even you sef try for me, not only do you find my charaters for me, you mostly comment on the story while others are screaming more update, and u always drop a comment when you read.

Okay, am sorry for not recognising ur efforts, thank you, thank you and thank you!



#any more grievances peeps, pls hook me up, am in a thankful mood


[quote author=frank3.16]I am truely sorry, i have nt been fully online for sometime now, just bEen taking a peep and out. I took a journy out of civilization in order to communicate with my inner self while workin on a new story and Editing cyber lover.
I have made lots of promises that i have not kept.
Well like i pRomised i will make out time this weekent to finish ur story and do lots of stuff.[/quote]communicate with ur inner self? Are you into yoga?

Anyways its cool by me, didn't know you haven't read it all, whenever you are done, am still very much around

Frankie, not fair oh! Being looking for u ever since i finished my story, no congrats or anything like that from you, so so not fair!

anyway, i want to officially and deeply appreciate ur time and effort in helping to groom me during my debut piece, thank you, thank you and thank, you are the best!


#luvmijeje, i hope u get to see this, i also appreciate ur inputs too, i wanted to appreciate u on my thread, but i never saw u there again (apologises 4 watevr it is i did wrong) so, thank you, thank you and thank you

me thinks its a worthy idea but there definitely are hitches:

- some writers tend to pull out their works after they've being completed, for fear of plagiarism.
- a large percent of the stories here are abandoned or sinking away into oblivion, without care or love
- its really gonna be hard catergorising the stories into genres...

So, i wish u guys the best of compilation

Ishilove: I will resume work on Monday. My evil laptop is on the verge of repenting...

My sincerest apologies because I've missed Chilo too

i don't know if i should shout another yipee, oh my poor heart

Samelfisha: baby gal calm down ASUU strik is involve

no, she's not a student, ASUU ain't got nothing on her, instead she works in an oil company

[quote author=D.Ella.luv]Nyc nyc nyc,ds story s so gud......princesa seems I'l strt followin u cos u r anywhr a gud story is brewing[/quote]since am aiming higher in my writing, i just got to be where am gonna grow. So let me do the honours first

and by the way, goodmorning people...