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A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things. For example:
"Nature's first green is gold"
The tenor "first green" is compared to the vehicle "gold." The connotations of "gold" are scarce, precious, and valuable. This helps us see that, for the speaker, the first signs of life in spring are scarce, precious, and valuable.
A simile is an explicit comparison between two unlike things that uses "like," "as," "seems," or "resembles" to make the comparison. For example:
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high oe'r vales and hills."
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or associated detail of an experience or object is used to represent the whole experience or object. It is always a comparison between whole and part, not two disparate wholes. For example:
"For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
—William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Personification is a figure of speech that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human
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A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is made between two unlike things. For example:
"Nature's first green is gold"
The tenor "first green" is compared to the vehicle "gold." The connotations of "gold" are scarce, precious, and valuable. This helps us see that, for the speaker, the first signs of life in spring are scarce, precious, and valuable.
A simile is an explicit comparison between two unlike things that uses "like," "as," "seems," or "resembles" to make the comparison. For example:
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high oe'r vales and hills."
Metonymy is a figure of speech in which some significant aspect or associated detail of an experience or object is used to represent the whole experience or object. It is always a comparison between whole and part, not two disparate wholes. For example:
"For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils."
—William Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Personification is a figure of speech that endows animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human
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