Rereading of Metaphors

Yesha BhattMA Sem 2

Department of English

MKBU

The Meaning of Metaphor It is a figure of speech that refers to something

as being the same as another thing.

It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between two ideas.

Metaphor directly equates two different words.

Metaphor can provide the poetic imagination.

Types of Metaphor...Simple

metaphor

Complex metaphor

Dead metaphor

Dying metaphor

Mixed metaphor

Compound

metaphor

Diachronic

Development and evolution of a

language through history

Synchronic

Language without taking its history

into account

Krishna as Metaphor

BEAUTY OF WOMAN

Lovers

Indians

Betrayal

Absence of Lover..

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances” As You Like It (William Shakespeare)

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