All 8 Uses of
metaphor
in
The Crying of Lot 49
- Heretofore the naming of names has gone on either literally or as metaphor.†
Chpt 3 *
- "Entropy is a figure of speech, then," sighed Nefastis, "a metaphor.†
Chpt 5
- The Demon makes the metaphor not only verbally graceful, but also objectively true.†
Chpt 5
- Because of the metaphor?†
Chpt 5
- He existed for Clerk Maxwell long before the days of the metaphor.†
Chpt 5
- Now here was Oedipa, faced with a metaphor of God knew how many parts; more than two, anyway.†
Chpt 5
- Behind the initials was a metaphor, a delirium tremens, a trembling un-furrowing of the mind's plowshare.†
Chpt 5
- The act of metaphor then was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe, or outside, lost.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(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 denote -- as when Shakespeare wrote, "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.editor's notes: 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.