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Metaphors Metonymy and Synecdoche
Includes questions about the use of expressions to refer one thing to another. Metaphors are comparisons without the use of the words "like" or "as". Ex: All the world's a stage. Metonymy shows association between two concepts. Ex: The press was banned from the room. (Press, meaning reporters.) Synechdoche is a part or a whole concept described by a single body part. Ex: All hands on deck.
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links an absract concept with an object, comparison of two dissimaliar thinkgs including abstract concepts
Is The clanging and banging of the bells metaphor?
No, the words clanging and banging demonstrate onomatopoeia, or when a word is a sound too.
A metaphor is a comparison that does not use like or as. The passing of the seasons, as described from one stanza to the next (spring to winter), is a metaphor for the stages of life.
What metaphor best symbolizes federalism?
The cake examples. There is a layered cake (Which represents dual federalism) and the marble cake (Which represents cooperative federalism).
What is a sentence with a metaphor and using the word anger?
He kept his anger bottled up and eventually that volcano was going to explode.
One little weasel in the office earned the anger of all his coworkers.
The manager expressed anger over being stabbed in the back by his own assistant.
What is a metaphor for a blanket?
You are going to be hard-pressed to find a metaphor for blanket since metaphors use a common object to symbolize a more complex concept. Blankets are fairly common objects so they usually become the symbol. You will find snow, metaphorically blanketing the ground and you will find a 'wet blanket' in attendance at most parties. You will find 'blanket rules' that have nothing to do with a bed and if you look hard enough, you will find a 'security blanket' that may not be made of cloth.
Can you give me a metaphor for bright smile?
A metaphor for a bright smile, is the sun. A smile can brighten up a persons day, and so can the sun (:
A metaphor, as defined in our glossary, is a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. The word metaphor itself is a metaphor, coming from a Greek word meaning to "transfer" or "carry across." Metaphors "carry" meaning from one word, image, or idea to another.
What is a metaphor for jumping?
You could use jumping like a kangaroo or if your popping up fast you could also write jumping up fast like a jack in the box
What are other metaphors in alias grace apart from the obvious quilt?
The peonies, her new-found freedom etc
The runner was as fast as a cheetah is this a simile alliteration metaphor or an assonance?
That is a simile though you do have a little rhyming and repetition with the "as" bits.
Dear, EDP ????
It is a big ?? in front of us what is edp. EDP full form is "Electronics Data Processing"
Actully it is a name of a department in which whole data of an organization/ industry/ company or any thing elecronically processed or stored and can be used further
1.-a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in "she is like a rose." Compare metaphor.
2.-an instance of such a figure of speech or a use of words exemplifying it.
When you say something and mean something else?
Example? Metaphor? Parallel? Parable? Simile? Lie? Fib?
What is meant by the idiom Have a bee in your bonnet?
When you come across an idiom, try to picture what the words say. Picture any woman with a bonnet. Perhaps you can even picture a bonnet as a hood that beekeepers wear. Now, imagine the person noticed (or imagined) a bee in there--what would a person do! They'd be agitated, consumed with trying to get the bee out, and trying everything possible to get it taken care of without being stung! They'd also likely be yelling or loudly asking for help. Even after the bee is gone, they could still be agitated, worried, and constantly looking around for that darn bee, certain it might come back! Might even be angry or upset that they had this experience.
In this sense, having a bee in your bonnet is like the idiom "a dog with a bone"-- some topic you can't let go of, that you keep talking about even after the event is over, that makes you agitated and upset over so you keep being agitated or worried over it.
Note: "a bee in your bonnet" is used in reference to females, while "a dog with a bone" (gnawing and gnawing over and over on the same thing) is mostly used in reference to males.
Also note: Historically, notice that this was a sexist idiom, a put down, spoken by males against women they knew. So, in literature, it is often a male character who will speak or think these words in the idiom. If it is used today, women can say it about themselves or other women, too. But not to describe a man.
Their mother acted like she had a bee in her bonnet when her teenage kids kept leaving their dirty dishes in their rooms.
I had a bee in my bonnet when my date started saying sexist remarks.
Many people on Internet forums get a bee in their bonnets over nothing of any importance.
What are some examples of a metaphor about snow?
A metaphor for snow could be:
Sugar
Hope this helps :). Definition is here just in case:
a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
