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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 White Tiger
Chapter 4: The Fourth Night
Explanation and Analysis—It Was a Monster:
Throughout The White Tiger, metaphors frame Balram’s experience in evocative terms: his father’s spine is a “knotted rope,” and the tea shop workers are essentially “human spiders.” In some instances, metaphor also adds an unsettlingly supernatural twist to the novel. While waiting at the Connaught Place for Ashok in Chapter 4, Balram watches the construction of a new mall from afar:
It was a monster, sitting at the top of the pit with huge metal jaws alternately gorging and disgorging immense quantities of mud. Like creatures that had to obey it, men with troughs of mud on their head.
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