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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—Humans or Chimps?:
After Rye and Obsidian have sex, Rye thinks about the children she lost versus the children growing up in a chaotic, post-pandemic world. In a telling simile, she laments the way society has come apart:
Today's children gathered books as well as wood to be burned as fuel. They ran through the street chasing one another and hooting like chimpanzees. They had no future. They were now all they would ever be.
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