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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—Eye of the Football Pitch:
Early in the novel, Ham uses simile and metaphor to compare Dungatar to a face, in which the center of the football pitch is an eye that returns Tilly's gaze. Over the course of the novel, the motif of the football pitch comes to represent the community that Tilly and Molly are excluded from—but which relentlessly scrutinizes them.
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Explanation and Analysis—Looks that Burn:
Early in the novel, it becomes clear that the women of Dungatar dislike Molly and Tilly—and consider them to be outcasts. One of the ways in which Ham develops this by describing how the women look at them and react to their presence. Using hyperbole and metaphor, she exaggerates the effects of the women's looks, giving them the properties of fire.
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