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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
Metaphors
Explanation and Analysis—Arriving on Mars:
Near the beginning of the story, after the Bitterings have just arrived on Mars, Bradbury uses imagery and a metaphor to capture the family’s apprehension about their situation:
The children with their yellow hair hollered at the deep dome of Martian sky. There was no answer but the racing hiss of wind through the stiff grass.
He picked up the luggage in his cold hands. “Here we go,” he said— a man standing on the edge of a sea, ready to wade in and be drowned.
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Explanation and Analysis—Unsettling New Home :
Near the beginning of the story, just after Harry and his family arrive on Mars, Bradbury uses a pair of similes and a metaphor to capture the unsettling nature of this new planetary environment:
Unlock with LitCharts A+At any moment the Martian air might draw his soul from him, as marrow comes from a white bone. He felt submerged in a chemical that could dissolve his intellect and burn away his past.
They looked at Martian hills that time had worn with a crushing pressure of years. They saw the old cities, lost in their meadows, lying like children’s delicate bones among the blowing lakes of grass.
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