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The art of the Metaphor

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    Metaphor
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  • A metaphor is __________________.
    A way of talking about one thing by describing it in terms of another.
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  • A simile is ______________.
    A phrase that compares two things using "like" or "as".
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  • "An elephant in the room" is a way of saying ____________.
    an obvious problem that no one wants to discuss.
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  • The mother in Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son" ____________.
    is a happy and carefree person
    givers her son a lot of rules he has to follow
    has had a hard life
    None of the above
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  • You might like using metaphors when you write and talk because
    A good metaphor lets you think and feel in a different way
    it lets you say things that aren’t factually true
    All of the above
    It invites what you say into the reader’s senses
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