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- What is an example of a metaphor for the word stubborn?
A metaphor for someone who is stubborn could be quot;a brick wall quot; - unyielding, unmoving, and resistant to change or compromise
- What are some non - examples of metaphor? - Answers
A metaphor is a word or phrase that is used to make a comparison between two people, things, animals, or places A metaphor can be a count or a non-count noun Examples: Their voices were of angels
- What is the origin of the idiom In your wheelhouse? - Answers
The metaphor may have been meant to suggest rotational force, as with a railroad wheelhouse (also called a roundhouse), a platform used to spin a train engine or car for the purpose of
- What are some examples of figurative language in boy in the striped . . .
There is onomatopoeia on pg 9 stating "And Bruno liked nothing better than to get on board the banister at the top floor and slide his way through the house, making whooshing sounds as he went
- What is a simile for as wet as a? - Answers
A metaphor What does the idiom as wet as a drown rat means? This is not an idiom - idioms make no sense when you try to define them This makes perfect sense - something is as wet as a rat that
- Find similies to the door creaked like? - Answers
Metaphor - "The wind was a torrent of darkness" Alliteration - "cobbles, clattered, creaked" Onomatopoeia - "creaked" Simile - "his hair like mouldy hay" Personification - "There was Death at
- What is it called when you say one thing and mean another?
It can be metaphor, where a difficult idea is expressed in simple or picturesque terms eg "It's raining cats and dogs" to mean "Its raining heavily" It can be euphemism,
- What does under loves heavy burden i do sink mean? - Answers
It's a metaphor You are not suppose to take the literal meaning "Love" is being compared to "a heavy burden" as the author's love of his her beloved is so profound that it feels like a weight he
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