Words gushing and tumbling as if a hose had been turned on -Rose Tremain.Words, frothy and toneless like a chain of bursting bubbles -L.Words falling softly as rose petals -Mary Hedin.Words … danced in my mind like wild ponies that moved only to my command -Hortense Calisher.The words crumbled in his mouth like ashes -William Diehl.Words came out … tumbling like a litter of puppies from a kennel -F.Words as meaningless and wonderful as wind chimes -Sharon Sheehe Stark.This simile was first used by Talmudic rabbis A word once spoken, like an arrow shot, can never be retracted -Anon.The word hissed like steam escaping from an overloaded pressure system -Ross Macdonald.They flung them like weapons, handled them like jewels, tossed them on air with reckless abandon as though they scattered confetti -Mary Hedin.Stiff as frozen rope words poke out -Marge Piercy.The sentence rang over and over again in his mind like a dirge -Margaret Millar.The rest rolled out like string from a hidden ball of twine -Lynne Sharon Schwartz.An old sentence … ran through her mind like a frightened mouse in a maze -Babs H.My words slipped from me like broken weapons -Edith Wharton.Like blood from a cut vein, words flowed -James Morrow.It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken -Menander.His words were smoother than oil (and yet be they swords) - The Book of Common Prayer.Her words fell like rain on a waterproof umbrella they made a noise, but they could not reach the head which they seemed destined to deluge -Frances Trollope.Every word hanging like the sack of cement on a murdered body at the bottom of the river -Diane Wakoski.(She spoke to them slowly,) dropping the words like ping pong balls -Helen Hudson.Her words at first seemed fitful like the talking of the trees -Dante Gabriel Rossetti.The word seemed to linger in the air, to throb in the air like the note of a violin -Katherine Mansfield.Words, like fashions, disappear and recur throughout English history -Virginia Graham.Words, like clothes, get old-fashioned, or mean and ridiculous, when they have been for some time laid aside -William Hazlitt.Words, like fine flowers, have their color too -Ernest Rhys.Words, like men, grow an individuality their character changes with years and with use -Anon.It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn -Robert Southey.Her words still hung in the air between us like a whisp of tobacco smoke -Evelyn Waugh.Words, like Nature, half reveal and half conceal the Soul within -Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Words should be scattered like seed no matter how small the seed may be, if it has once found favorable ground, it unfolds its strength -Seneca.Applying words like bandages -William Mcllvanney.
Whether you call them fillers, discourse markers or something else is less important than it is to recognize the role they play in speech or writing.See Also: SPEAKING WORDS, DEFINED WORDS, EFFECT OF WORDS OF PRAISE WRITERS/WRITING Words that are often called 'fillers' (like, so, uhm, etc.) are a type of discourse marker that is used to manage attention, conversation turn taking, or just the flow of the speakers speech, work together with intonation and other non-segmental elements. What's important is that all those little words that are hard to categorize play an important role. But ultimately it's not all that important. Which is why it is hard to find an easy definition that would include all the things that look like discourse markers and exclude those that don't. As all linguistic categories (including nouns and verbs) the discourse marker category has fuzzy boundaries and is subject to prototype effects, family resemblances (and the like) - sort of like Lakoff's radial categories. Discourse markers are really just a catch all term for all the different lexical ways of making text (discourse) hold together beyond the level of the clause.
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