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metaphor
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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- The second main reason is that people often talk using metaphors.†
Chpt 29metaphors = 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
- These are examples of metaphors I laughed my socks off.†
Chpt 29
- The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another, and it comes from the Greek words meta (which means from one place to another) and ferein (which means to carry), and it is when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn't.†
Chpt 29metaphor = 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
- This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.†
Chpt 29
- This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.†
Chpt 29
- My name is a metaphor.†
Chpt 29
- This is not a metaphor, it is a simile, which means that it really did look like there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils, and if you make a picture in your head of a man with two very small mice hiding in his nostrils, you will know what the police inspector looked like.†
Chpt 31
- It was falling so hard that it looked like white sparks (and this is a simile, too, not a metaphor).
Chpt 157 *metaphor = a figure of speech in which a word is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity -- as when Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage."
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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)