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This 5 page paper gives an indepth explanation of the figures of speech, metaphor and simile. Examples are used from Wordsworth, Shakespeare and John Crowe Ransom. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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comparisons, these elements are extremely useful to the writer. However, one has to pause to wonder how the metaphor and simile arose, how they differ and what their actual meanings
are. According to the actual definition of the word, Metaphor, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary states that it is a figurative element in language, having been derived from the French word
for transfer(Merriam/Webster, 2002). Therefore, a metaphor, literally is a figure of speech where a word or a collection of words denote one kind of object or idea and is used
in place of another to suggest a likeness or similarity between them(Merriam/Webster, 2002). An example might be Died of a broken heart or swimming in sin. Metaphoric content in
John Crowe Ransoms, Bells for John Whitesides Daughter are clearly present in the following passage: Her wars were bruited in our high window. We looked among the orchard trees and
beyond Where she took arms against her shadow, or harried unto the pond.
The phrase, took arms against her shadow and wars were bruited in the high window are both clear metaphors. The person depicted in this piece did not literally take her
arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be said to be symbolic
in nature. Also, interesting to note, there are several distinctions of metaphors. According to the online Merriam-Webster dictionary (2002) metaphors can be considered dead if they have been overused in
the English language. Such an example would be time is running out. Writers generally call these often repeated phrases, clich?s and attempt to avoid them at all costs. There are
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