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Simile or Metaphor? [Part 3]?
Are these similes, metaphors or nothing?
“Panic and hysteria slowly take over.”
“They have poisoned his mind.”
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it’s a metaphor because it compare two things without using like or as..
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Neither. a simile expresses the comparison through words such as “like” or “as.” (“He’s like a lion.” “He’s as strong as an ox.”) A metaphor is an implied comparison: “The ship of state” meaning the nation. The two you mention are indeed figures of speech (the first personifies panic and hysteria, while the second uses the verb “poison” in a colorful way), but neither is a simile of a metaphor.
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Neither. Similies are when you compare two items using the words like or as. ( She runs like a deer.)
Metaphors are when you say something is another object, when really you are saying they are like that object.
(The moon was a large pumpkin sitting in the sky.)
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