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Allegory and Simile
Includes questions related the use of symbolic representation and the comparison of unlike things.
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The prisoners are described as being bound in a dark cave, facing into a wall. They can only see the shadows of their guards as they come and go behind them. It is as if the shadows are the reality, real people who can talk and move.
Plato compares this very limited view of the world with the ordinary physical perceptions of mankind. Plato believes that true reality is much more than what we perceive, and that a philosopher's role is to investigate this higher meaning for the enlightenment of all. To that end, he postulated that all earthly things were simply representations (like the shadows) of some higher form or concept, much as all wooden tables in the world mirror the same basic function that is "a table." His theory said that such "Forms" (Ideas) were real, and he endeavored to discover their true nature.
Plato also uses the light (the Sun outside, brighter than the cave lights) as a metaphor for intellectual illumination, which could only with difficulty be explained to those who had not experienced it firsthand.
What figure of speech is the example It was like looking for a needle in a hay stack?
"It was like looking for a needle in a hay stack" is an example of a simile. A simile uses "like" or "as" to describe a situation, event, personality. Other examples of similes are:
- He is as slow as molasses in January.
- She could run like the wind.
- It's as hot as a furnace.
- He goes through money like there's a hole in his pocket.
Is alliteration a direct comparison between two things?
No, similes and metaphors are comparisons between two things.
simile: saying something is like something else eg: he was as hungry as a bear or his hunger was like a bear's. The double use of 'as' or the use of 'like' are common in similes.
metaphor: saying something IS something else, eg: America was a river in which my sins were forgotten and my past washed away.
Alliteration is simply a phrase or sentence in which the main words (not the little filler grammar words like a, in, on, under, etc) all start with the same letter or sound, eg: "Bears' brekkie bagged by blonde" (Goldilocks and the 3 bears) Often used in newspaper titles/headlines.
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What is a simile for the word bonding?
the wolf pups were bonding with each other like paper and glue
using a simile using (like) or (as)
she runs as slow as a turtle walks
An example describing someone's hair you don't like using a simile and metaphor?
their hair was a messy tangle made up of fishing nets
Sexism would be one, when people are treated differently just because of how they were born.
Since similes are comparisons and a form of metaphors you can make it more of a statement then a comparison... ie:
She's like a bull in a china shop (simile)
She's a bull in a china shop (metaphor)
What is a simile for embarasted?
TRY THIS ONE: I was as embarrassed as a dancer who messed up his steps onstage.
What is a good simile or metaphor about criminals?
a good metaphor for describing a criminal is the criminal was like an explosion of heat
Is 'The cat got the cream' a metaphor or a simile?
when elena had won the english prize she felt like the cat that had got the cream
What is an example of what a simile is?
A Homeric simile is a long and poetic simile. An example of a Homeric simile is: She gently touched the carpet, as a butterfly delicately swoops its wings against the dew covered grass in the morning, before it takes off into the sky.
metaphor
personification
What is a Rolling Simile Poem'?
A rolling similepoem is a poem consisted of similesleading into each other, such as
The sun is like the moon,both give light to the world.
The moon is like cheese, holey surfaces cover both.
Cheese...
For a poem pattern use
Ais like B, (both) ...
B is like C...
Can you continue this simile The sun shining on the water was like?
...beautiful liquid gold. ...a heavenly, serene spectacle. ...a picture perfect dream.
