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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
Key Examples in Blood Meridian
Chapter 17
Explanation and Analysis—The Coin Trick:
The Judge performs a magic trick with a coin that serves as a metaphor for the scalp hunters' greed:
Watch the coin, Davy, he said. He flung it and it cut an arc through the firelight and was gone in the darkness beyond... The coin returned back out of the night and crossed the fire with a faint high droning and the judge’s raised hand was empty and then it held the coin.... Even so some claimed that he had thrown the coin away and palmed another like it and made the sound with his tongue for he was himself a cunning old malabarista and he said himself as he put the coin away what all men knew that there are coins and false coins.
