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To: Das Outsider

Whats a metaphor?

3,655 posted on 03/19/2006 3:24:26 PM PST by fanfan ( "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" - Ayn Rand)

To: fanfan

A comparison between two superficially unrelated things.

A simile states that A is like or as B; metaphors state that A is B or B substitutes for A.

Basically, similes generally use like or as; metaphors generally don't.

3,681 posted on 03/19/2006 3:57:38 PM PST by rzeznikj at stout (This is a darkroom. Keep the door closed or you'll let all the dark out...)

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