Metaphor
Definition:
Metaphors are one of the most extensively used literary devices. A metaphor refers to a meaning or identity ascribed to one subject by way of another. In a
metaphor, one subject is implied to be another so as to draw a comparison between their similarities and shared traits. The first subject, which/who is the focus of the sentences is usually compared to the second subject, which is used to convey/carry a degree of meaning that is used to characterize the first. The purpose of using a metaphor is to take an identity or concept that we understand clearly (second subject) and use it to better understand the lesser-knownelement (the first subject).
Example:
“Henry was a lion on the battlefield”. This sentence suggests that Henry fought so valiantly and bravely that he embodied all the personality traits we attribute to the ferocious animal. This sentence implies immediately that Henry was courageous and fearless, much like the King of the Jungle.
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103 comments postedIs "I am faint with envy of the dead." a Metaphor?
what is an extended metaphor?
An extended metaphor is when the metaphor is going on throughout the whole story/poem. It is mostly found in poems for example a love poem where love is associated with a rose therefore the poem talks about the "rose" as if it were love.
scared to death
'scared to death' is more like a hyperbole
making love to his tonic and gin
1- but i boil at the way shes reduced me
2-down a river of crushes, each week she paddles somewhere new
Is "In the dining-room someone was rattling tea cups" a metaphor?
Lets agree to disagree
“ He dived into their eyes and dragged up sneers.”
"We have become wild beasts". This is from All Quiet on the Western Front and I'm not sure if it's a metaphor or what it is.
wild beasts are a metaphor. it means soldiers became ruthless, bloodthirsty and all other characteristics that you can attribute to wild beasts.
"it's funny how many lies can be packed in one "love letter" "
Is this a metaphor?? Or is it something else.....
that's right think? i.d.k. i'm just cunfused
"Her morning elegance she wears" count as a metaphor
Yes all are metaphors
he was drinking from a cup of withering flames
This ship will carry our bodies safe to shore
(as in, ship=death and shore= heaven)
That would be symbolism. This is because in this case, the ship symbolizes death and the shore symbolizes heaven. It wouldn't be a metaphor because it isn't comparing two things in the sentence. An example is, "Her body was a ship that carried us safe to shore".
Is 'The sun made amber roads of shimmering sunlight upon the pond" A metaphor? If not what is it?
I am trying to figure out which literary device is used in the following statement
"It felt like we had a taste of freeedom."
IS this a metaphor?
"the sunlight would flap out like a quickly opened fan"
This is a simile as it uses "like" to compare the aforementioned sunlight to a quickly opened fan.
"Dolores...guilty as sin"..is that one?
whenever it uses like or as it is a similie.
Cause you use "as" it is with :^
"a crack of lightening, an explosion of thunder"
his gray eyes were so colorless i thought he was blind
it is an exaggeration, or hyperbole, if it even is a rhetorical device at all; "i" may actually have thought he was blind, but if "i" clearly seems to know he is not blind, i would go with hyperbole
"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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chilli powder is like a key to my heart.
i looove his shows and yeah its a metaphor...
whats that.
An animal perfectly in harmony with it’s environment is a perfect mechanism
is that a metaphor?
• Desolately thin in the wet air
If you wipe up love...
is love being rough a metaphor or not??????
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,and shoes that shone like midnight.
"he ruled with a heavy hand"
"between the fringes of both worlds"
Legal Alien- Pat Mora
it is
“Which is as thin of substance as the air and more inconstant than the wind, who wooes even now the frozen bosom of the north”
romeo and juliet
Is this a metaphor: 'Feed the ooze of their pasture-ground'
What I learned from my grade 4 teacher that I have always carried with me is that a Metaphor is a Similie not using like or as
Took the "g" out your waffle all you got left is your ego
"And Alice spins on, a tornado in flight
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is this a metaphor
"...you resurrect every Sunday..."
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