familiar-object comparison

Put the amount beside a thing whose size the reader already carries, and draw both at honest proportion. Area for area, length for length. The comparison object has to come from the reader's own life, not from a stock list, or you have handed them a second quantity they cannot picture either.

Put the amount beside a thing whose size the reader already carries, and draw both at honest proportion. Area for area, length for length. The comparison object has to come from the reader's own life, not from a stock list, or you have handed them a second quantity they cannot picture either.

Example

Best when the reader has a specific thing of known size in the same units, ideally one they have been postponing.