Emily Dickinson - Metaphor Flashcards

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What is Metaphor?

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Metaphor is a comparison of two unlike ideas.

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What is Simile?

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A Simile is a Metaphor using the terms “Like” or “As.”

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Which lines from Emily Dickinson’s “The day came slow” contain a metaphor - a comparison of two unlike things?

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(The wind is prince of those).

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Which lines from the underlined section of Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” contain a metaphor - a comparison of two unlike things?

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Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder /If I could put a notion in his head:

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