All 10 Uses
metaphor
in
Paper Towns
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- "It's a metaphor for adolescence," my mother piped up.†
p. 86.1 *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
- It's not metaphor.†
p. 125.8
- There was the hope Dr. Holden had talked about—the grass was a metaphor for his hope.†
p. 172.2
- He continues,
Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,
A scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropped,
Like grass is a metaphor for God's greatness or something....
Or I guess the grass is itself a child ....And then soon after that,
Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic,
And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones,
Growing among black folks as among white.†p. 172.3 - So maybe the grass is a metaphor for our equality and our essential connectedness, as Dr. Holden had said.†
p. 172.7
- So grass is a metaphor for life, and for death, and for equality, and for connectedness, and for children, and for God, and for hope.†
p. 173.1
- Like a metaphor rendered incomprehensible by its ubiquity, there was room enough in what she had left me for endless imaginings, for an infinite set of Margos.†
p. 173.4
- We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean.†
p. 301.8metaphors = 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
- But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.†
p. 301.8metaphor = 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
- The metaphors have implications.†
p. 301.9metaphors = 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
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)