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metaphor
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White: The Great Pursuit
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- That's merely a metaphor, William said.†
Chpt 2metaphor = 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
- And that most of what we know about who Justin really is, we know from the Book through metaphor.†
Chpt 2
- The analogies and metaphors.†
Chpt 4metaphors = 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
- Because the whole notion of the word becoming flesh is a metaphor, as you said.†
Chpt 4metaphor = 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
- They are simply required to die metaphorically.†
Chpt 4
- Yet here our following isn't metaphorical at all.†
Chpt 4
- So now you think this Book, which is from here where metaphors express themselves literally, might do the same in this dream world of yours?†
Chpt 4 *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
- Two of a dozen metaphors we use in the Circle to talk about Justin.†
Chpt 19
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)