Diction

A rowan like a lipsticked girl.

Other than a color what comes to mind when you think of a lipsticked girl?

My answer is simple a young sophisticated self pleased female. No she's not stuck-up or conceited, she's simply pleased with herself and is concerned about her appearance. To have lipstick shows how this female has the time or went out her way and taken the time to think about what she has on, wearing, smelling, feeling, or just what makes this unknown "lipsticked girl" that "lipsticked girl". What comes to mind is that it is not often that you see this lipsticked girl being plain or awkward, it seems as if she always goes and comes looking her best. She finds comfort in looking and feeling her best, and feels accomplished when she is complimented on it. She feels she has achieved something.

How would it change the meaning and the feeling of the line if instead of lipsticked girl, the author wrote girl with lipstick on?

When you change it to that sentence it just seems as if this girl is plain. This girl would go unnoticed among those with lipstick on and with those without lipstick. She's no longer the girl wearing the lipstick, and that the lipstick, if it did have feelings, should be proud that it is being worn by her, that it has even graced her lips. Now it only seems like the lipstick is wearing the girl. Meaning that the lipstick out does her...if someone had seen her they wouldn't want to talk to her, they would want to know where she got the lipstick from and then that's the end of the conversation. She, as the lipsticked girl, would have been able to hold that conversation and instead of just wanting the lipstick they want to be like her. When you just change the words around you get a totally different character.

Write a simile comparing a tree with a domesticated animal. In your simile, use a word that is normally used as a noun (like lipstick) as an adjective (like lipsticked).

An evergreen like an aged puppy.