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Another example could be in referring to a woman who was very                                    A well-known metaphor is the one used by William Shakespeare in
                     attractive. We might say, “she was not unattractive”.                                            his play, “As You Like It”.
                                                                                                                      “All the world’s a stage,
                     She is no oil painting. (She is ugly.)                                                           And all the men and women are merely players;
                                                                                                                      They have their exits and their entrances;”
                     This is no small problem. (This is a big problem.)
                                                                                                                      Some common metaphors include the following:
                     This wine is not bad at all. (This wine is very good.)
                                                                                                                      Broken heart
                     I am not as young as I used to be. (I am getting old.)                                           It’s raining men
                                                                                                                      The light of my life
                                                                                                                      The apple of my eye
                     “The grave’s a fine a private place,                                                             Feeling blue
                     But none, I think, do there embrace.”                                                            Emotions are on a rollercoaster
                     (Andrew Marvel - “To His Coy Mistress”)                                                          He is the black sheep of the family
                                                                                                                      Hearing her friend was not injured was music to her ears
                                                                                                                      He was hopping mad
                     Metabasis                                                                                        She was drowning in paperwork

                     Metabasis is the transitioning from one subject to another. The word                             William Shakespeare commonly used metaphors in his writing.
                     comes from the Latin and it  means “a change”. It is also claimed                                “Shall I compare Thee to a summer’s Day”. (“Sonnet 18”)
                     that the word  comes from ancient Greek “Metábasis”  meaning
                     “changing  mutation”. The word is also used in medicine for  a
                     change in symptoms of a disease.
                                                                                                                      Metonymy
                     Examples:
                                                                                                                      Metonymy is the use of a word or a phrase which is different from
                     You have heard lots of talk of what can go wrong with the plan, let’s                            what is being described, but has some association with it.
                     talk now about how it can succeed.
                                                                                                                      Examples:

                     Methaphor                                                                                        Hollywood is a suburb of Los Angeles in California, U.S.A.. But the
                                                                                                                      word “Hollywood”  is often used as a metonym for the U.S. film
                     A metaphor is a commonly used rhetorical device used by speakers                                 industry.
                     and in writing.  Methaphors describe things that are not similar by
                     asserting that in some way they are. It should not be confused with                              The term “Buckingham  Palace” is also sometime used
                     a simile  which will use words  such  as “like” or “as”  in making                               metonymously to refer to the British royalty.
                     comparisons.
                                                                                                                      The financial centre of the U.S.A. is often referred to as “Wall
                     Examples:                                                                                        Street”.
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