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Metaphor

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Reference to one thing to another, implying a comparison.

Question 1

Allegory

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An extended metaphor (a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.) in which a story is told to illustrate an important attribute of the subject.
Ex:”The boy who cried wolf” illustrates the consequence of dishonesty by telling a story about a boy who lies.

Question 2

Simile

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Explicit comparison of one thing to another.
Ex: “…and sometimes now seeing The king, his face and little long necked body and grey beard like a goat’s chin tuft…”

Question 3

Synecdoche

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A whole is represented by naming one of its parts.

Ex: “ On the horizon we could see them coming, sixty sail marking their imminent arrival.”

Question 4

Metonymy

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Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes (characteristic.)
Ex:”the pen is mightier than the sword.”

Question 5

Personification

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Reference to abstractions or inanimate objects a though they had human qualities or abilities.
Ex: “The ship began to creak and protest as it struggled against the rising sea.”

Question 6

Allusion

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A short, informal reference to a famous person or event.

Ex: “Plan ahead, it wasn’t raining when Noah built an arc”

Question 7

Eponym

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The name of a person or character that has been adopted as the name of something else.
Ex: “She’s just a low-down jezebel.”

Question 8

Analogy

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In rhetoric, reasoning or explaining form parallel cases.
A simile is an expressed analogy; a metaphor is an implied one.
Ex: “ If you want my final opinion on the mystery of life and all that, I can give it to you in a nutshell. The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination.But the combination is locked up in the safe.”