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Definition of Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor can be stated explicitly, as... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other. The comparison in a metaphor... read full definition
A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things by saying that one thing is the other... read full definition
Chapter 1
Explanation and Analysis—A Regular Machine:
Passepartout first agrees to work as Fogg's servant under the impression that the job will allow him to settle down in London and embrace a predictable routine. In Chapter 2, Passepartout uses a metaphor to describe Fogg's predictability as an employer:
“This is just what I wanted! Ah, we shall get on together, Mr. Fogg and I! What a domestic and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don’t mind serving a machine.”
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Chapter 2
Explanation and Analysis—A Regular Machine:
Passepartout first agrees to work as Fogg's servant under the impression that the job will allow him to settle down in London and embrace a predictable routine. In Chapter 2, Passepartout uses a metaphor to describe Fogg's predictability as an employer:
Unlock with LitCharts A+“This is just what I wanted! Ah, we shall get on together, Mr. Fogg and I! What a domestic and regular gentleman! A real machine; well, I don’t mind serving a machine.”
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Chapter 3
Explanation and Analysis—Small World:
In Chapter 3, Fogg and his friends at the club discuss a bank robber who is on the run. Fogg first introduces the metaphor of a world that has "grown smaller" because of railroads and steamships, and Ralph Gauthier agrees with him:
Unlock with LitCharts A+["]The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago. And that is why the search for this thief will be more likely to succeed.”
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Chapter 11
Explanation and Analysis—Fogg in Orbit:
In Chapter 11, the narration uses a metaphor to compare Fogg to a planet or other "solid body" in orbit around Earth:
Unlock with LitCharts A+But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.
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