what is metaphor. pls answer it Hello koi hain kya
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a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Ex: A Heart of Gold
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metaphor (from the Greek “metaphorá”) is a figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect.
While the most common metaphors use the structure “X is Y,” the term “metaphor” itself is broad and can sometimes be used to include other literary terms, like similes.
One of the most famous examples of metaphor in the English language comes from William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. In it, the playwright writes:
All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.
Shakespeare is comparing the world to a stage by saying one is the other. However, he doesn’t believe the world is a literal stage; the comparison is rhetorical. By comparing the world to a stage, and the people in the world as players on it, he is inviting us to think about the similarities between the two, and by extension, the meaning of human nature and our place in the world.