All 9 Uses
metaphor
in
Snow Crash
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- It would break the metaphor.†
Chpt 5-6metaphor = 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
- It breaks the metaphor.†
Chpt 13-14
- By this point, Mr. Caruso had led him some distance away and was strolling with him down one of the metaphorical Highways o' Opportunity.†
Chpt 17-18
- It must be a real kick in the metaphorical nuts.†
Chpt 29-30
- That story has to be a metaphor for something else.†
Chpt 33-34 *metaphor = 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
- I think it is a metaphor for some kind of recursive informational process.†
Chpt 33-34
- You are using some kind of metaphor that I cannot understand.†
Chpt 35-36
- Some languages are better at metaphor than others.†
Chpt 35-36
- Over his head, the express trains are whooshing down the track at a metaphorical speed of ten thousand miles per hour, he passes them like they're standing still.†
Chpt 63-64
Definitions:
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(1)
(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)