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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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I was wondering could " suitors plague my mother" be a metaphor?
  

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Anonymous I was wondering could " suitors plague my mother" be a metaphor?
No, but 'plague' by itself might be considered metaphoric. The suitors are not literally annoying her with a plague (of locusts, for example), so you have a difference between word meaning and speaker meaning, which is metaphor.

It's not a typical metaphor, however, because 'p
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