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How do you define the word metaphor?

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∙ 14y ago
Updated: 11/16/2022

a Metaphor is the concept of understanding one thing in terms of another. A metaphor is a figure of speech that constructs an analogy between two things or ideas.

A metaphor is comparing two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as".

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