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Metaphor
| Metaphor Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Metaphor?
[n] 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
Synonyms | Synonyms for Metaphor:
Related Terms | Find terms related to Metaphor: accordance |
agent |
agreement |
alikeness |
allegory |
alliance |
alliteration |
allusion |
alternate |
alternative |
anacoluthon |
anadiplosis |
analogue |
analogy |
anaphora |
anastrophe |
antiphrasis |
antithesis |
antonomasia |
aping |
apophasis |
aporia |
aposiopesis |
apostrophe |
approach |
approximation |
assimilation |
backup |
balancing |
catachresis |
change |
changeling |
chiasmus |
circumlocution |
climax |
closeness |
community |
comparability |
comparative anatomy |
comparative degree |
comparative grammar |
comparative judgment |
comparative linguistics |
comparative literature |
comparative method |
compare |
comparing |
comparison |
conformity |
confrontation |
confrontment |
contrast |
contrastiveness |
conversion |
copy |
copying |
correlation |
correspondence |
counterfeit |
deputy |
distinction |
distinctiveness |
double |
dummy |
ecphonesis |
emphasis |
equal |
equivalent |
ersatz |
exchange |
exclamation |
fake |
figure of speech |
fill-in |
gemination |
ghost |
ghostwriter |
hypallage |
hyperbaton |
hyperbole |
identity |
image |
imagery |
imitation |
inversion |
irony |
likeness |
likening |
litotes |
locum tenens |
makeshift |
malapropism |
matching |
meiosis |
metonymy |
mimicking |
nearness |
next best thing |
onomatopoeia |
opposing |
opposition |
oxymoron |
parallelism |
paregmenon |
parenthesis |
parity |
periphrasis |
personification |
personnel |
phony |
pinch hitter |
pleonasm |
preterition |
prolepsis |
proportion |
proxy |
reference |
regression |
relation |
relief |
repetition |
replacement |
representative |
resemblance |
reserves |
ringer |
sameness |
sarcasm |
second string |
secondary |
semblance |
sign |
similarity |
simile |
similitude |
simulation |
spares |
spoonerism |
stand-in |
sub |
substituent |
substitute |
substitution |
succedaneum |
superseder |
supplanter |
surrogate |
syllepsis |
symbol |
symbolism |
symploce |
synecdoche |
third string |
token |
trope |
trope of comparison |
understudy |
utility player |
vicar |
vice-president |
vice-regent |
weighing |
zeugma
See Also | dead metaphor |
figure |
figure of speech |
frozen metaphor |
image |
mixed metaphor |
synesthetic metaphor |
trope
Metaphor In Webster's Dictionary
\Met"a*phor\, n. [F. m['e]taphore, L. metaphora, fr.
Gr. ?, fr. ? to carry over, transfer; meta` beyond, over +
fe`rein to bring, bear.] (Rhet.)
The transference of the relation between one set of objects
to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a
compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea. --Abbott &
Seeley. ``All the world's a stage.'' --Shak.
Note: The statement, ``that man is a fox,'' is a metaphor;
but ``that man is like a fox,'' is a simile,
similitude, or comparison.
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