Definition of metaphor
Nouns
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
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dead metaphor, frozen metaphor
a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., `he is a snake' may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word `snake')
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mixed metaphor
a combination of two or more metaphors that together produce a ridiculous effect
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synesthetic metaphor
a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities
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figure, figure of speech, image, trope
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Vocabulary Lists for metaphor
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Intro + Chapters 1-7 »(650 words)
Vocabulary study list for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The...
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