: Re: Describing a Traumatic Silence I am finishing a short story by describing how the silence of a deceased character is more unnerving than that character's cries before he died. Is there a simile

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Consider putting in blank lines and/or many spaces between words to represent the silence. That makes the reader read “silence” and experience it along with the character. It is a fairly common poetry technique but is also used in prose.

Example:

he breathed and breathed and then

nothing

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