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Lance76 Posted 20 years ago
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Metaphors
My daughter has a homework assignment on metaphors. The excercise ask her to cirlce the two things being compared in the following metaphors. What two things would you circle?
1. His tail was wagging so fast it was just a yellow blur.
2. There was a little brush of yellow tail whiping back and forth.
3. Its tongue hung out underneath a little wet raisin of a nose.
1. His tail was wagging so fast it was just a yellow blur.
2. There was a little brush of yellow tail whiping back and forth.
3. Its tongue hung out underneath a little wet raisin of a nose.
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Lance76 My daughter has a homework assignment on metaphors. The excercise ask her to cirlce the two things being compared in the following metaphors. What two things would you circle?
- Lance76 My daughter has a homework assignment on metaphors.
- The excercise ask her to cirlce the two things being compared in the following metaphors.
- What two things would you circle?
- 1.
- His tail was wagging so fast it was just a yellow blur.
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Lance76
My daughter has a homework assignment on metaphors. The excercise ask her to cirlce the two things being compared in the following metaphors. What two things would you circle?
1. His tail was wagging so fast it was just a yellow blur.
2. There was a little brush of yellow tail whippi
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Hello Lance
A metaphor is an implicit statement of some point of resemblance between two things that differ in other respects. But a fast-wagging tail isn't like a blur: it is a blur. So I wouldn't call #1 an example of metaphor.
In #2, "brush" is another word for "a fox's tail", so that too is not particularly metaphorical. "Whipping" is a little more figurative; t
A metaphor is an implicit statement of some point of resemblance between two things that differ in other respects. But a fast-wagging tail isn't like a blur: it is a blur. So I wouldn't call #1 an example of metaphor.
In #2, "brush" is another word for "a fox's tail", so that too is not particularly metaphorical. "Whipping" is a little more figurative; t
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<A metaphor is an implicit statement of some point of resemblance between two things that differ in other respects. But a fast-wagging tail isn't like a blur: it is a blur. So I wouldn't call #1 an example of metaphor.>
A blur is a representation of something.
<In #2, "brush" is another word for "a fox's tail", so that to
A blur is a representation of something.
<In #2, "brush" is another word for "a fox's tail", so that to
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< A blur is a representation of something. >
A blur can be a representation of something – for instance, a blur of pink can be a representation of a distant face, in a painting.
And when we say: "Last week is a complete blur!", we're using the word metaphorically.
But when we say that the nebula M42 in Orion is a "blur", or that a speeding train is a "blur", the se
A blur can be a representation of something – for instance, a blur of pink can be a representation of a distant face, in a painting.
And when we say: "Last week is a complete blur!", we're using the word metaphorically.
But when we say that the nebula M42 in Orion is a "blur", or that a speeding train is a "blur", the se
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1. His tail was wagging so fast it was just a yellow blur.
3. Its tongue hung out underneath a little wet raisin of a nose.
3. Its tongue hung out underneath a little wet raisin of a nose.
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My take is, it shoud be "His tail was wagging so fast that it looked like a yellow blur.
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There is a slight tautology there, as "blur" already implies "what happens when something moves too fast for the eye/brain to follow". Thus if something "looks like" a blur, it is a blur.
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