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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
The word metaphor itself is a metaphor, coming from a Greek term meaning 'transference (of ownership)'. The user of a metaphor alters the reference of the word, "carrying" it from one semantic "realm" to another. The new meaning of the word might derive from an analogy between the two semantic realms, but also from other reasons such as the ...
In the background, Hendrix's "Purple Haze" is playing; at first as the original recording, then on accordion. Sierra Mist "Fire Escape" To avoid the heat, a man jumps from the balcony at his apartment and lands in an ice-cold water pitcher. The ad ends with his dog following suit and landing in a glass of water next to him. Tax preparation H&R ...
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue was directed by Jia Zhangke, produced by Zhao Tao, [6] Xstream Pictures, Huaxia Film Distribution, Shanxi Film and Television Group, Huaxin Kylin Culture Media, Wisharty Media, Huayi Brothers Pictures, [7] Shi Dian Culture Communication, We Entertainment, [8] IQIYI pictures, and Alibaba entertainment, [9] written by Jia Zhangke and Wan Jiahuan, [6] and ...
Marge finds the house, who does all the work for the Simpsons, charming. The house soon becomes infatuated with Marge after the two share a bath and decides to kill Homer. In the middle of the night, the house tricks Homer into running downstairs by frying bacon, then dispenses ice onto the floor via the refrigerator to make him slip.
"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. [2] In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" (most likely after a line from either Milton's Paradise Lost or Shakespeare's Macbeth) [3] in the hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts.
Go ahead!" [3] — Ma Barker, American mother of criminals (16 January 1935), to her son, Fred Barker, prior to their deaths in a shootout with the FBI "Always, always. Water for me." [3] [12]: 52 — Jane Addams, American settlement and temperance activist, social worker and author (21 May 1935), when her physician asked if she wanted some water
"The Metaphor" is a short story by Budge Wilson. It was originally published in the October 1983 issue of Chatelaine magazine. [1]