The Art of the Writer: Essays, Excerpts, and TranslationsLane Cooper Cornell University Press, 1952 - 436 páginas |
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... Similes . The simile too is a metaphor , the difference between them being only slight . Thus when Homer says of Achilles that ' he rushed on like a lion , ' bit is a simile ; but when he says that ' he rushed on , a very lion , ' it is ...
... Similes . The simile too is a metaphor , the difference between them being only slight . Thus when Homer says of Achilles that ' he rushed on like a lion , ' bit is a simile ; but when he says that ' he rushed on , a very lion , ' it is ...
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... similes must be much the same as that of meta- phors ; for they are metaphors , but with the difference already stated . e An instance of a simile is e.g. that which Androtion applied to Idrieus when he said that he resembled curs which ...
... similes must be much the same as that of meta- phors ; for they are metaphors , but with the difference already stated . e An instance of a simile is e.g. that which Androtion applied to Idrieus when he said that he resembled curs which ...
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... simile before the object to which it is applied . That this arrangement is the best , may be seen in the following pas- sage from The Lady of the Lake : As wreath of snow , on mountain - breast , Slides from the rock that gave it rest ...
... simile before the object to which it is applied . That this arrangement is the best , may be seen in the following pas- sage from The Lady of the Lake : As wreath of snow , on mountain - breast , Slides from the rock that gave it rest ...
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