All 10 Uses
metaphor
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous.†
Chpt 1 *metaphors = figures of speech in which a similarity between two things is highlighted by using a word to refer to something that it does not literally mean
- Metaphors are not to be trifled with.†
Chpt 1
- A single metaphor can give birth to love.†
Chpt 1metaphor = a figure of speech in which a similarity between two things is highlighted by using a word to refer to something that it does not literally mean
- Franz's associations were familiar metaphors: the sun of righteousness, the lambent flame of the intellect, and so on.†
Chpt 3metaphors = figures of speech in which a similarity between two things is highlighted by using a word to refer to something that it does not literally mean
- When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness.†
Chpt 3
- I have said before that metaphors are dangerous.†
Chpt 5
- Love begins with a metaphor.†
Chpt 5metaphor = a figure of speech in which a similarity between two things is highlighted by using a word to refer to something that it does not literally mean
- Although the editor's words of praise pleased him, his son's metaphor struck him as forced and out of place.†
Chpt 5
- As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.†
Chpt 5
- The identity of kitsch comes not from a political strategy but from images, metaphors, and vocabulary.†
Chpt 6metaphors = figures of speech in which a similarity between two things is highlighted by using a word to refer to something that it does not literally mean
Definitions:
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(metaphor) a figure of speech in which a similarity between two things is implied by using a word to refer to something it does not literally mean—as in, "All the world’s a stage."When Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." he was not saying the world is really a stage and all people are actors. But he was pointing to the similarities he wants us to recognize.
While metaphors and similes are both techniques of figurative language. The distinction is that a simile explicitly shows that a comparison is being made, by using words such as "like" or "as". A metaphor simply substitutes words assuming the reader will understand the meaning should not be take literally. "She is like a diamond in the rough" is a simile; while "She is a diamond in the rough" is a metaphor. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)