Figures of Speech

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Figures of Speech

• Please copy the following definitions and
  examples into your notebook under Literary Terms

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Simile, Metaphor, and Analogy

• Simile compares two unlike things by using the
  comparative words like or as to suggest they are
  one and the same thing.
• Example Life is like a box of chocolates.
• Explanation Life is like a box of chocolates
  because of the many choices one has to make.
• Metaphor compares two unlike things without
  using the comparative words like or as to suggest
  they are one and the same thing.

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• Example Life is a box of chocolates.
• Explanation The choices we face in life are as
  varied and unknown as the flavors hidden in
  chocolates in a box.
• Analogy compares two things, which are alike in
  several respects, for the purpose of explaining
  or clarifying some unfamiliar or difficult idea
  or object by showing how the idea or object is
  similar to some familiar one

4

• Example For answers successfully arrived at
  are solutions to difficulties previously
  discussed, and one cannot untie a knot if he is
  ignorant of it. --Aristotle
• Explanation In order to arrive at a solution,
  we must know what the problem is