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Cpu hat 637 Posted 8 years ago
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Metaphor

The sun shot its fiery arrows towards earth.

The grass was blanketing the bare fields.


Are the above sentences metaphors?

  

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cpu hat 637 The sun shot its fiery arrows towards earth. The grass was blanketing the bare fields. Are the above sentences metaphors?

  • cpu hat 637 The sun shot its fiery arrows towards earth.
  • The grass was blanketing the bare fields.
  • Are the above sentences metaphors?
  • I would have no problem saying they are metaphors.
  • However, the books on the subject would call this simply "metaphoric language" as they define metaphors is such a way that they must contain the linking verb be .
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cpu hat 637

The sun shot its fiery arrows towards earth.

The grass was blanketing the bare fields.


Are the above sentences metaphors?

I would have no problem saying they are metaphors. However, the books on the subject would call this simply "metaphoric language" as they define metaphors is such a way that they must contain the linki

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