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Book mango 418 Posted 7 years ago
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Bursting crash
"Then there was a sudden,terrific, bursting crash......." From The Water Faucet Vision by Gish Jen
Here the writer is describing the sound of her mother falling out of their window.
What does "bursting" mean here? The crash is so loud that it bursts through your ears?
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book mango 418 What does "bursting" mean here? The crash is so loud that it bursts through your ears? No.
- book mango 418 What does "bursting" mean here?
- The crash is so loud that it bursts through your ears?
- No.
- That is creative writing, applying an adjective to a noun that it wouldn't ordinarily be applied to.
- She gets the image of the bursting window into her description of the sound.
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book mango 418What does "bursting" mean here? The crash is so loud that it bursts through your ears?
No. That is creative writing, applying an adjective to a noun that it wouldn't ordinarily be applied to. She gets the image of the bursting window into her description of the sound.
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