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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. ...

Hi YL, he was asking if there is any difference between "to slam a door" and "to slam a door shut". Not the difference between "slam shut" and "shut".I think "slam the door" is more common. The shut is not really necessary unless you want to...

Hi, 1. What's the difference between "someone always does something" and "someone has always done something"? Mary always cooks my dinner. It's her routine - yesterday, today, tomorrow. Mary has always cooked my dinner. I am talking about the past up until now. Maybe I will continue by saying...

Could someone please look at the following question answers for grammar mistakes and weird sentences? Here is the poem The Daffodils by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the...

Don't throw eggs at me! Just want to throw my 2 cents into the debate... Figuratively speaking, no living being can run at 186,000 per hour,or the speed of light. “Stronger than the locomotive and faster than the speeding bullet” is the opening intro. In the 60’s Superman show which was a...

I believe you mean SIMILE. Both are figures of speech. The difference between simile and metaphor (simply), simile shows a direct comparison, metaphor shows an indirect (assumed) one... (I'm confusing myself here, but hopefully my examples will be of help) Simile: She walks in beauty, like the...

You look at a word in the dictionary, or read it, or hear it, and it is thereby INPUT into your mind-- it is STORED somewhere in your memory in a place and by a method which will allow you to find it and RETRIEVE it in order to use it appropriately. This paradigm for the way the senses...

I would say that the "imagery" consisted of: Wax candles, brass candlesticks, the Virgin’s altar, blue flames, women with black shawls, golden shrines, altar lace, marble columns, faces, shadows. Then we have: 1. Poor Women: pun on "poor"? 2. bright/Asterisks: metaphor. 3. dough-faced: an...

Hello Sextus 1) 'Rather' here sounds slightly strange; it's almost implicit. You would get the same sense if you left it out. 2) The difficulty here is that most of the words you could use are metaphorical at some level (tied, linked, etc), and there is no satisfactory metaphor for the way a...