What is Metaphor?????
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Explanation:
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile
Explanation:
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
"when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic metaphor"
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figure of speech
figurative expression
image
trope
allegory
parable
analogy
comparison
symbol
emblem
word painting
word picture
conceit
a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.
"the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a metaphor for an industry that was teetering"