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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—Bradshaws:
In Chapter 2, the narrator remembers Manderley as it was when she lived there. She uses an allusion and a metaphor to describe the way her memory works:
Color and scent and sound, rain and the lapping of water, even the mists of autumn and the smell of the flood tide, these are memories of Manderley that will not be denied. Some people have a vice of reading Bradshaws. They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connections. My hobby is less tedious, if as strange. I am a mine of information on the English countryside.
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Chapter 5
Explanation and Analysis—Memories Uncorked:
In Chapter 5, the narrator begins prying into Maxim's mysterious past and asks him why he is interested in her, a naïve young woman. Maxim, frustrated, uses a simile to build on a metaphor the narrator introduced earlier in their conversation:
Unlock with LitCharts A+The first day we met, your Mrs. Van Hopper asked me why I came to Monte Carlo. It put a stopper on those memories you would like to resurrect. It does not always work, of course; sometimes the scent is too strong for the bottle, and too strong for me. And then the devil in one, like a furtive Peeping Tom, tries to draw the cork.
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Chapter 14
Explanation and Analysis—Living Play:
The young narrator's curiosity gets the better of her in Chapter 14, and she sneaks into Rebecca's old bedroom. As the older narrator describes the spooky room she recalls seeing, she uses a metaphor to introduce a flashback:
Unlock with LitCharts A+The daylight gave an even greater air of reality to the room. When the shutter was closed and it had been lit by electricity the room had more the appearance of a setting on the stage. The scene set between performances. The curtain having fallen for the night, the evening over, and the first act set for tomorrow’s matinée. But the daylight made the room vivid and alive.
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