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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 Girl, Interrupted
Chapter 10: Elementary Topography
Explanation and Analysis—Flotsam on the Tide:
When Susanna considers her therapist's point of view regarding her condition in chapter 10 (and how it may have led to her admittance to McLean), she imagines his perception of her using the following metaphor:
It’s a mean world out there, as Lisa would say. He can’t in good conscience send her back into it, to become flotsam on the subsocietal tide that washes up now and then in his office, depositing others like her. A form of preventive medicine.
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