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In reply to the discussion: Do they still teach the difference between simile and metaphor? I ask because... [View all]skip fox
(19,356 posts)37. It's such a simple distinction. High school teachers make much of it.
I've taught English at the University level for 40 years an spend a few seconds on it in a freshman poetry class.
I also taught creative writing-poetry at the upper division an graduate level. We would discuss the effectiveness of one over the other, Metaphor, for instance, is more insistent, whereas using "like" or "as" tends to be less energetic or "sure" which might be fine for a more contemplative phrase.
It's never an empty distinction for the writer who cares what she or he is doing.
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Do they still teach the difference between simile and metaphor? I ask because... [View all]
LAS14
Nov 2019
OP
A metaphor compares two dissimilar things by linking them with a commonality.
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2019
#23
Metaphor if figurative and simile is literal (kind of--it doesn't pretend one is the other).
Cuthbert Allgood
Nov 2019
#18
Maybe, but what about knowing how to read it? E.g., parents/grandparents letters? nt
LAS14
Nov 2019
#15
For me what matters these days is that a person can learn anything they want to online.
abqtommy
Nov 2019
#14