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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" ____________.
    None of the above
    has had a hard life
    givers her son a lot of rules he has to follow
    is a happy and carefree person
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  • You might like using metaphors when you write and talk because
    it lets you say things that aren’t factually true
    All of the above
    It invites what you say into the reader’s senses
    A good metaphor lets you think and feel in a different way
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