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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 The Playboy of the Western World
Act 1
Explanation and Analysis—Pigsty:
At the end of Act 1, Pegeen uses an insulting metaphor to describe Widow Quin's home:
PEGEEN. with noisy scorn.—It’s true the Lord God formed you to contrive indeed[...] Doesn’t the world know you’ve been seen shaving the foxy skipper from France for a threepenny bit and a sop of grass tobacco would wring the liver from a mountain goat you’d meet leaping the hills?
WIDOW QUIN. with amusement.—Do you hear her now, young fellow? Do you hear the way she’ll be rating at your own self when a week is by?
PEGEEN. to Christy.—Don’t heed her. Tell her to go into her pigsty and not plague us here.
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