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Mataphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common.A metaphor expresses the unfamiliar (the tenor) in terms of the familiar (the vehicle).When Neil Young sings,"Love is a rose," "rose" is the vehicle for "love," the tenor.
Examples:
"Between the lower east side tenements
the sky is a snotty handkerchief."
(Marge Piercy,"The Butt of Winter")
"The streets were a furnace,the sun an executioner."
(Cynthia Ozick,"Rosa")
"But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill."
(William Sharp,"The Lonely Hunter")
"Men's words are bullets,that their enemies take up and make use of against them."
(George Savile,Maxims of State)
"A man may break a word with you,sir,and words are but wind."
(Shakespeare,The Comedy of Errors)
"The rain came down in long knitting needles."
(Enid Bagnold,National Velvet)
Lenny:Hey,maybe there is no cabin.Maybe it's one of them metaphorical things.
Carl:Oh yeah,yeah.Like maybe the cabin is the place inside each of us,created by our goodwill and teamwork.
Lenny:Nah,they said there would be sandwiches.
(The Simpsons)
"Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."
(Austin O'Malley,Keystones of Thought)
"It would be more illuminating ...to say that the metaphor creates the similarity than to say that it formulates some similarity antecedently existing."
(Max Black,Models and Metaphors,1962)