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theme: figurative, rhetorical, and structural devices theme: figurative, rhetorical, and structural devices 09.02.2024 what is metaphor a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar an object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol of something else metaphors are a form of figurative language, which refers to words or expressions that mean something different from their literal definition. in the case of metaphors, the literal interpretation would often be pretty silly. for example, imagine what these metaphors would look like if you took them at face value: love is a battlefield. silas is a couch potato. if you don’t take them at face value, the result is a much more powerful description of people or events than you’d get with phrases like “love is difficult” or “silas sits around a lot.” metaphor …
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h it is associated (such as "crown" in "lands belonging to the crown"). in metonymy, a word that is associated with something is used to refer to that thing, as when crown is used to mean "king" or "queen," or when mark antony asks the people of rome to lend him their ears in william shakespeare's play julius caesar. it's also metonymy when an author's name is used to refer to works written by that person, as in "we are studying jane austen." synecdoche synecdoche is when the word for a part of something is substituted for the whole thing (such as hired hand for "worker"), or less commonly, when the whole is used to represent a part (as when society denotes "high society"). synecdoche meaning jack got some new wheels! jack got a new car. do a quick headcount and see who's missing. do a quick count of the …
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ddle, diddle by mother goose. “hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon; the little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.” image3.png image1.jpg /docprops/thumbnail.jpeg
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theme: figurative, rhetorical, and structural devices theme: figurative, rhetorical, and structural devices 09.02.2024 what is metaphor a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar an object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol of something else metaphors are a form of figurative language, which refers to words or expressions that mean something different from their literal definition. in the case of metaphors, the literal interpretation would often be pretty silly. for example, imagine what these metaphors would look like if you took them at face value: love is a battlefield. silas is a couch potato. if you don’t take them at …

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