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  2. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    Ship of state: the nautical metaphors of Thomas Jefferson : with numerous examples by other writers from classical antiquity to the present. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-2516-6. Milligan, Christopher S.; Smith, David C. (1997). "Language from the Sea: Discovering the Meaning and Origin of Nautical Metaphors".

  3. NYT ‘Connections’ Hints and Answers Today, Sunday, February 23

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    These items are commonly used in metaphors (hint: the metaphors/phrases are associated with secrets or messes). Related: 300 Trivia Questions and Answers to Jumpstart Your Fun Game Night.

  4. There's a certain Slant of light - Wikipedia

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    There is idiosyncratic capitalization, especially for nouns. Many of the themes in the poem are created through the initial simile of winter light "that oppresses, like the Heft / Of Cathedral Tunes -" This simile creates a synesthetic effect, mixing sound, sight, and weight. [8] This simile first introduces religious connotations to the poem.

  5. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    A short or light aria Arioso: airy A type of solo opera or operetta Ballabile: danceable (song) to be danced to Battaglia: battle: An instrumental or vocal piece suggesting a battle Bergamasca: from Bergamo: A peasant dance from Bergamo: Burletta: a little joke: A light comic or farcical opera Cabaletta: from copola (couplet) A two-part musical ...

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Afrikaans – as die perde horings kry ("when horses grow horns"); Albanian – ne 36 gusht ("on the thirty-sixth of August"); Arabic has a wide range of idioms differing from a region to another.

  7. Simile - Wikipedia

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    ŋɛu như ɲɯ con kɔn mèo mɛu / Nghèo như con mèo / ŋɛu ɲɯ kɔn mɛu / "Poor as a cat" Whereas the above Vietnamese example is of a rhyming simile, the English simile "(as) poor as a church mouse" is only a semantic simile. See also For a list of words relating to similes, see the English similes category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Alliteration Analogy Description ...

  8. DC plane crash has striking similarities to a 1949 tragedy - AOL

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    A passenger plane near Washington, D.C. An unexpected military aircraft. And a fatal mid-air collision. Wednesday's deadly collision between an American Airlines flight and an Army Black Hawk ...

  9. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]