The second quotation, "The world is a stage and we are all actors," contains a metaphor.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things without using "like" or "as." For example, "He drowned in a sea of grief."
She lived in a sea of grief -apex (:
A classic metaphor from Shakespeare is the following, suggesting a theatre stage as a metaphor for the human world: : All the world's a stage, : And all the men and women merely players; : They have their exits and their entrances. A more modern everyday metaphor would be "The road ahead was a ribbon of moonlight" or "John is my knight in shining armour"
Yes, this is a metaphor comparing a child's mind to a shallow brook that ripples and dances over a stony course as it receives education. The metaphor suggests that education helps shape and enrich a child's mind, just as the brook's course is shaped by the stones it flows over.
Then he came into the business part of the city, where the streets were sewers of inky blackness, with horses sleeping and plunging, and women and children flying across in panic-stricken droves.
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"I am a rock!" is a metaphor.
The line "My love is such that Rivers cannot quench" contains a metaphor as it compares her love for her husband to an unquenchable river, emphasizing its depth and intensity.
a simile or metaphor
The sentence "He looked as if he were fifteen or sixteen." contains a metaphor, comparing the boy's appearance to his actual age while implying he looks older.
I'm not sure which excerpt you are referring to. Can you provide the specific text so I can identify the line containing a metaphor?
Metaphor
a simile or metaphor
a simile or metaphor
a simile or metaphor
One example of metaphor from "Great Expectations" is in Chapter 59, where Pip describes his heart as a "disease." This metaphor highlights the emotional turmoil and suffering that Pip is experiencing.