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Definition
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."
For example, Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." Shakespeare is not saying the world is really a stage and all people are actors, but there are similarities he wants us to recognize.
For example, Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." Shakespeare is not saying the world is really a stage and all people are actors, but there are similarities he wants us to recognize.
- Maybe we invented metaphor as a response to pain.p. 231.5
- "You often try to understand your experience through metaphor, Aza: It's like a demon inside of you; you'll call your consciousness a bus, or a prison cell, or a spiral, or a whirlpool, or a loop, or a—I think you once called it a scribbled circle, which I found interesting."p. 88.9
- One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic— is that we can really only approach it through metaphor.p. 89.1
- My kingdom for an I. Felt myself slipping, but even that's a metaphor.p. 211.7
There are no more uses of "metaphor" in Turtles All the Way Down.
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