| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["Language"],"appCategory":"Language","appTitle":"What is your favorite figure of speech?","appBody":"<p>There are so many figures of speech, even the one you mention irony is the most used in the world definitely common amongst people as well and used on regular basis however<strong> my favourite figure of speech would be metaphor</strong>, I love metaphor because metaphor is used for unlikely comparisons in order to lay emphasis in literature or in circular world, metaphors are for painting a more vivid picture thats making comparisons in fact a direct comparison unlike it's opposite simile which makes an indirect comparison.</p>\n<p>When we talk about the beauty of metaphor we talked about making comparisons for example when you want to talk about a lady's beauty and you are looking for words to use, using a direct comparison will help you lay better emphasis and also help you construct a more glorious picture of what you tried to say, using metaphor deals with direct comparison comparison for example you can say<strong> \"she is Aphrodite the beauty of them all\"</strong></p>\n<p>Or you can use a more direct comparison for something else you can say <strong>Anthony is Hercules on the battlefield</strong> here you have compared two unlike things by comparing Anthony to Hercules who are different people but display a certain similar characteristics or features which is definitely strength in the earlier comparison we try to compare a person with Aphrodite the goddess of love giving the person a characteristic and feature of beauty even if they are two different things.</p>\n<p>In essence the comparison involved in metaphors helps to create aesthetic beauty it gives a glorious imagery something for example you can say the princess is a glowing star this is a rather more direct approach to compare the beauty of the star to that of the princes who have two different things or different nature but sharing a feature and characteristics</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"f3ynrq225","appParentAuthor":"rasamuel","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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