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just the truth  #70593  Fri, 28 Jan 05 01:38 PM
I just had to see what could possibly have caused 26,598 hits for this thread. I thought Mr M must have posted a bunch of nudes or something. Could that really be possible; 26,598 !!!
  
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Mister Micawber  #70604  Fri, 28 Jan 05 02:29 PM

All the anonymous 'Guest' threads are lumped by the machinery, JTT.

  
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Guest  #77102  Sun, 27 Feb 05 10:20 PM
I was wondering would "His face was pale" be a metaphor??
  
Mister Micawber  #77141  Mon, 28 Feb 05 04:49 AM

No. 'Pale' is just a predicate adjective modifying 'face'.

Earlier in this thread (post #29796), there is a simile: 'her face was (as) pale as the moon'.

To convert this into a metaphor, we must rid ourselves of any 'like's and 'as's:

'Her face, a gibbous moon pale and glowering, unsettled me.'


ANY FURTHER POSTERS SHOULD READ THIS THREAD CAREFULLY FROM THE BEGINNING, AS IT CONTAINS SEVERAL DEFINITIONS AND EXAMPLES OF SIMILES AND METAPHORS.



  
dickster  #83078  Wed, 23 Mar 05 01:20 AM
I need 5 metaphors. What role does language and language diversity play in the critical thinking process. How does language empower o limit the expression of our thoughts. What is the role of critical thinking in persuasion.
  
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pieanne  #83320  Wed, 23 Mar 05 06:38 PM
It seems to me there are a lot of "oriental" visitors in here. (I'm totally "occidental", a Belgian living in France, and many posts come from China and other countries in the East),
so I find it would be interresting to compare metaphors from the East and from the West... ?
  
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Guest  #85895  Sat, 02 Apr 05 06:50 AM
this is strange. I'm looking for the same thing. Are you taking phl 251 @ uop?
  
Guest  #89425  Tue, 12 Apr 05 11:02 PM
what is a metaphor.

  
abbie1948  #89666  Wed, 13 Apr 05 07:15 PM
A metaphor is "a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them" (Websters)

if you read the whole thread, you will find definitions and metaphors

  
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Hope that helps. Abbie
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