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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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metaphor

is " The sun a monstrous snowball" a metaphor?
  

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Anonymous is " The sun a monstrous snowball" a metaphor? Yes. The lack of a verb may be excused in poetry.

  • Anonymous is " The sun a monstrous snowball" a metaphor?
  • Yes.
  • The lack of a verb may be excused in poetry.
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Anonymous is " The sun a monstrous snowball" a metaphor?
Yes.
The lack of a verb may be excused in poetry.
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It's a very odd one, however. The sun is generally though of with burning, hot, or fiery imagery, not ice, cold, or snow.
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Anonymous is " The sun a monstrous snowball" a metaphor?
Yes, though it should really contain "is". Even "The sun is a pepperoni pizza" is a metaphor.

To be a successful metaphor, however, the listener (or reader) should be able to work out the intended meaning, and neither your metaphor nor mine are particularly successful when you consider them fro

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