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A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels". Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects
A Dictionary of Similes is a dictionary of similes written by the American writer and newspaperman Frank J. Wilstach. In 1916, Little, Brown and Company in Boston published Wilstach's A Dictionary of Similes, a compilation he had been working on for more than 20 years. It included more than 15,000 examples from more than 800 authors, indexing ...
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else).
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At times, it seems the trouble that cats get into is entirely accidental. I can forgive my cat’s near-daily scattering of litter outside their box due to super-enthusiastic waste-burial techniques.
A recent development in American popular culture in which the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of dark humor and horror elements. F.A.T.A.L. The worst-reviewed tabletop role-playing game of all time, where you roll for your character's anal circumference and can listen to a theme song that "sounds like the ...
In an interview with Good Housekeeping, 'Yellowstone' actress Kelly Reilly reflected on her time portraying Beth Dutton on the Paramount Network drama series.
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