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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 2
Explanation and Analysis—Shifting Mists:
In the second chapter of the novella, Utterson returns home after hearing about Hyde’s crimes in London, and he begins to put the pieces together regarding his character:
Out of the shifting, insubstantial mists that had so long baffled his eye, there leaped up the sudden, definite presentment of a fiend.
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Chapter 10
Explanation and Analysis—A Dreadful Shipwreck:
In the last chapter of the novel, Jekyll uses a metaphor to compare his jumbled emotional and psychic state to a “shipwreck,” a catastrophic accident:
Unlock with LitCharts A+With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
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