5 Answered Questions for the topic Metaphor

Metaphor English Grammar

11/21/20

Is this a metaphor?
Is “I ripped eggs” a METAPHOR? What is meant is “I farted”. Please settle this debate, it’s not a joke.
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07/02/20

find a simile, metaphor, metonymy/synecdoche and stock phrases?
Lady Alice Lady Alice was sitting in her bower window, At midnight mending her quoif;  And there she saw as fine a corpse  As ever she saw in her life.  'What bear ye, what bear ye, ye six men... more
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08/04/19

Is using an 'empty' metaphor considered bad style?
I just had this sentence off my head:> A crown of fire spread through the country consuming everything on its> way.What I mean by empty metaphor is a metaphor that doesn't really have any... more
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06/23/19

I need to figure out a wolf metaphor for a poem.
I need to figure out a new metaphor to use. It has to describe how the wolf is a hassle to human society. My original was,” While I’m an ant- a pest to your society” I got advice told to me that... more
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09/19/17

Which type of figurative language is used in this sentence from George Orwell’s novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying?
The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.
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