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... METAPHOR AND SIMILE Life , like a dome of many - colored glass , Stains the white radiance of Eternity . The first of these lines ( from Shelley's " Adonais " ) is ... METAPHOR AND SIMILE 91 Jon Stallworthy, SINDHI WOMAN METAPHOR AND SIMILE.
... METAPHOR AND SIMILE Life , like a dome of many - colored glass , Stains the white radiance of Eternity . The first of these lines ( from Shelley's " Adonais " ) is ... METAPHOR AND SIMILE 91 Jon Stallworthy, SINDHI WOMAN METAPHOR AND SIMILE.
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... metaphor is not plainly limited in the number of resemblances it may indicate . To use the simile “ He eats like a pig " is to compare man and animal in one respect : eating habits . But to say " He's a pig " is to use a metaphor that ...
... metaphor is not plainly limited in the number of resemblances it may indicate . To use the simile “ He eats like a pig " is to compare man and animal in one respect : eating habits . But to say " He's a pig " is to use a metaphor that ...
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... metaphor in every line . And every metaphor is loaded with suggestion . Our world does indeed resemble a grain of sand : in being round , in being stony , in being one of a myriad ( the suggestions go on and on ) . Like Blake's grain of ...
... metaphor in every line . And every metaphor is loaded with suggestion . Our world does indeed resemble a grain of sand : in being round , in being stony , in being one of a myriad ( the suggestions go on and on ) . Like Blake's grain of ...
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Reading a Poem | 1 |
NARRATIVE POETRY | 8 |
THE PERSON IN THE POEM | 19 |
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