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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 11
Explanation and Analysis—Classism And The Coreys:
In Chapter 11, Tom and his father discuss families joining the aristocratic classes of Boston using the metaphor of digestion:
"But people who have never yet given a dinner, how is society to assimilate them?”
“It digests a great many people,” suggested the young man.
“Yes; but they have always brought some sort of sauce piquante with them. Now, as I understand you, these friends of yours have no such sauce.”
“Oh, I don’t know about that!” cried the son.
“Oh, rude, native flavors, I daresay."
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Chapter 19
Explanation and Analysis—Beautiful House Ruined:
In Chapter 19, Irene and Silas go for a walk after Tom reveals he loves Penelope, not Irene, and they pass their new house, which is described in an imagery-filled paragraph that describes the visuals of the home:
Unlock with LitCharts A+In their aimless course they reached the new house on the water side of Beacon, and she made him stop, and stood looking up at it. The scaffolding, which had so long defaced the front, was gone, and in the light of the gas lamp before it all the architectural beauty of the facade was suggested, and much of the finely felt detail was revealed. Seymour had pretty nearly satisfied himself in that rich facade; certainly Lapham had not stinted him of the means.
“Well,” said the girl, “I shall never live in it,” and she began to walk on.
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