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