An explicit metaphor is a metaphor that is fully explained in great detail. Unlike an implicit metaphor, which the meaning has to be implied.
Hey, everybody is doing homework on the word 'explicit'. The word actually means 'shown in detail', from the Latin 'explicit', meaning 'he explains'. Your question and all the others show that you are specifically looking at sexual explicitness, but the word has wider meaning. Anything that is explained or shown clearly and without possibility of mistake is 'explicit'.
explicit instructions; an explicit act of violence; explicit language.He was quite explicit as to what he expected us to do for him."generalizations that are powerful, precise, and explicit"
The word explicit is often used in the sense of sexually explicit.
They were explicit in their criticisms of the plan. Explicit nudity or sexual activity is normally classed as pornography.
'Explicit' is a Latin word meaning 'he, she, or it explains'.
An implicit metaphor implies something, an explicit metaphor explicitly makes something known, probably without doubt.
Metaphor is a comparison that does not use any explicit comparing words. All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree
"He is a shining star in our company" is an example of an indirect metaphor, where the person is compared to a star without using "like" or "as" to make the comparison explicit.
Hey, everybody is doing homework on the word 'explicit'. The word actually means 'shown in detail', from the Latin 'explicit', meaning 'he explains'. Your question and all the others show that you are specifically looking at sexual explicitness, but the word has wider meaning. Anything that is explained or shown clearly and without possibility of mistake is 'explicit'.
The dominant metaphor in Shakespeare's sonnet 18 (Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day ......) is youth described as a day in summer. Though properly speaking, since the comparison is made explicit, and since the parallels are developed and become the structure of the poem - this isn't really a metaphor. It is something between a simile and a conceit.
explicit instructions; an explicit act of violence; explicit language.He was quite explicit as to what he expected us to do for him."generalizations that are powerful, precise, and explicit"
The word explicit is often used in the sense of sexually explicit.
Its a metaphor
it is neither, it is personification
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An explicit theme is usually stated outright by a character in the play. (APEX)
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