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Anonymous  +  741814 Fri, 22 May 09 04:54 AM
I need to know some examples of metaphors. I understand what a simile is but not a metaphor.  Cool" src="" width=561 mce_src="/emoticons/emotion-11.gif">
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CalifJim  +  741857 Fri, 22 May 09 05:30 AM
Suppose I said,


Larry is a bag of dirt for doing something like that.


I'm using a metaphor.  Larry is a person, not a bag of dirt.  But the speaker means to say that Larry is a really disgusting person for doing what he did.  (We think of dirt as disgusting, so we make that connection.)


Word meaning:  A bag that is filled with dirt.

Speaker meaning:  A really disgusting person.


Metaphor occurs when word meaning differs from speaker meaning.


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