1) Colloquialism 2) Comparison of two things 3) Facon de parler 4) Figure 5) Figure of speech 6) French word used in English 7) Image 8) Implied comparison 9) It may be mixed 10) Life is a bowl of cherries 11) Literary comparison 12) Love is a rose 13) NERVES OF STEEL 14) Poetic tool 15) Something often mixed
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1) Image 2) Parable 3) Supposition
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a comparison that is made literally, either by a verb (for example, John Keats' 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' from his 'Ode on a Grecian Urn') or, less obviously, by a combination of adjective and noun, noun and verb, etc. (for example, Shakespeare's sonnet on the 'the marriage of true minds'), but in any case without pointing out a similarity by...
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• (n.) The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
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[Noun] A way of describing something as something else to suggest that it has the qualities of the other thing.
Example: The writer used the metaphor ‘a crust of bread’ when writing about how little he was paid each week.
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a comparison but this time one thing becomes another in every sense, except the literal. There is no 'like' or 'as' acting as links. e.g. The man was a mountain. The wind was a knife, cutting through outer garments to attack the defenceless body.
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A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figurativel
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A comparison that is made literally, either by a verb (for example, john keats' 'beauty is truth, tr
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Met'a·phor (mĕt'ȧ*fẽr)
noun [ French
métaphore , Latin
metaphora , from Greek
metafora` , from
metafe`rein to carry over, transfer;
meta` beyond, over +
fe`rein to bring, bear.]
(Rhet.) The transference of the rel...
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A metaphor is a figure of speech in which instead of comparing (as in a simile) the qualities common to two objects, we bodily transfer the qualities of the one to the other, as in 'The man was a lion in the fight'.
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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, without using the word like or as. For example Life is a brief candle. (Macbeth)
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A figure of speech where a word that normally applies to one thing is used to designate another for the sake of creating a mental picture
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A metaphor is a common figure of speech that makes a comparison by directly relating one thing to another unrelated thing (though these things may share some similarities).
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A direct comparison between two things.
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an implied comparison of unlike objects or thoughts.
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a figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another
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where the writer writes about something as if it were really something else. Fowler describes it as an 'imaginative substitution'. For example: he is an ass; love's meteor. A poisoned apple passed along from generation to generation (McGough).
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noun a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
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[Literary terms] a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
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[SAT terms] a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
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[Difficult words] a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
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[6th grade words] a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
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[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
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a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
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[Common core terms] a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
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