yes it is, the subject is the road which is compared to the moonlight.
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Yes, the statement is a metaphor. It compares the moon to a ghostly galleon and the road to a ribbon of moonlight over a purple moor, creating vivid imagery by using figurative language.
Yes, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas the road was a ribbon moonlight over the purple moor of personification. In other words, it was a moon.
Moonlight is a silvery cloak draping the earth in ethereal glow.
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Yes, the statement is a metaphor. It compares the moon to a ghostly galleon and the road to a ribbon of moonlight over a purple moor, creating vivid imagery by using figurative language.
It is dicribing the appearance of the road. The ribbon just means that the road isnt straight. It is a curvy or complicated path.
The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
The phrase is a metaphor comparing the lonely, curving road over a desolate moor to a sleek, curled or twisting ribbon, perhaps bright yellow in the moonlight. The Romany people ("Gypsies") are known for their colorful traditional costumes and have a reputation, unearned or not, for being thieves. This excerpt is from the poem, "The Highwayman," by Alfred Noyes, and tells the tragic love story of a robber and his sweetheart.
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"
'Proffering the olive branch' is a metaphor for trying to establish peace by giving someone a gift. The Bald eagle is a metaphor for strength, swiftness, and foresight in many cultures. The road was a ribbon of moonlight. The winds were a torrent of madness. The ocean's waves attacked the shore.
Yes, the moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas the road was a ribbon moonlight over the purple moor of personification. In other words, it was a moon.
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It was a ghastly night when the Highway Man came riding to Bess' old Inn-door. One could not have seen the rough country road stretching across the grass-grown moor, had not the scanty moonlight from the cloud-covered sky fallen on it, illuminating it. Thus it appeared as a far stretching band of moonlight against the dark green vegetation bordering and lining either side. Besides it was inky black darkness among the bordering trees. Though written during the early years of the Twentieth century, don't think that it was a macademized tarred black road.
Moonlight is a silvery cloak draping the earth in ethereal glow.
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