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New2grammar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:29:37 GMT

The crane snapped like a toothpick.

He rushed home like fish to water.

What are they, analogy or metaphor?

Thanks.

Re: metonymy

Avangi — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:50:17 GMT

You can say that, but again, this is just a statement of fact. It is not a metonym.

As an analogy, do you understand the difference between a simile and a metaphor?

The boxer Muhammad Ali described his boxing style: "float like a butterfly; sting like a bee." This is a simile. There's no substitution.

In a metaphor, there's substitution. "In the second round, the tiger sprang out of his corner and demolished his oponent." You don't say the boxer came out like a tiger; you say he is a tiger. You substitute tiger for boxer.

In a metonym, you substitute something associated with the word it replaces. He gave up the harpoon forever = He gave up whaling forever "Whaling" must not appear in your sentence.

- A.

Re: simian, metaphor and analogy

RedPenCJ — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:38:49 GMT

See:

http://ask.yahoo.com/20030623.html

Simile, metaphor, and analogy

simile, metaphor and analogy

BW2/3 — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:35:20 GMT

Simile, metaphor, and analogy are everywhere in books. How did you know which is which ?

Thank you

Re: Metaphor?

Marius Hancu — Tue, 30 May 2006 02:52:17 GMT

seems like one, the coldness of glass being assigned to the wilderness ....
but then, perhaps this is an analogy ...

Teen metaphor :P

Tearsofjoy — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:31:54 GMT

Courtesy of www.jumbojoke.com

We've been told these are actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. Yeah, as if.

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1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

10. McBride fell 12 storeys, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy! comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighbourhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

26. Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

27. She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

28. It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

Enjoy!

- Joy

Re: Examples of metaphors

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:58:24 GMT

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.

Re: analogy/METAPHOR: LITERAL:

jeff_999 — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:23:14 GMT

Yep, the answer is melody/spoken.

Actually I didn't mean metaphor/literal are antonymous. I meant the first words of two pairs suggest something in a higher level than the second ones. (Maybe higher is not an appropriate term.)

Re: analogy/METAPHOR: LITERAL:

davkett — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:13:32 GMT

Jeff_999 wrote:

But I was just unable to explain "melody". Maybe we can see it this way:

deep: superficial

Is the answer melody/spoken?

As you can tell from my choice above, I didn't think of metaphor/literal as necessarily in opposition. Check out this definition of metaphor (Merriam-Webster):
1 : 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

If we, however take metaphor/literal as simple opposites, we will say that a metaphor is not literal, then if our match is melody/spoken, we must say that a melody ('pleasing arrangement of sounds) is not spoken (even though we sometimes come across the phrase 'melodious speech'). Song/spoken might have been better as opposites.

Re: analogy/METAPHOR: LITERAL:

jeff_999 — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:55:23 GMT

Thank you all. Actually, I know the relationship of the given pair, But I was just unable to explain "melody". Maybe we can see it this way:

deep: superficial