metaphor
ਅਲੰਕਾਰ
definition
noun
“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
example
The torso also includes the heart, a 'metaphor' for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.
Yet its importance as a 'metaphor' for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
The book's title is, of course, a 'metaphor' for what she as a writer does.
The title is a 'metaphor' for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize.
I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a 'metaphor' for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
Throughout the film, the necklace serves as a 'metaphor' for her freedom to live a life of her choosing.
In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a 'metaphor' for being reluctant to commit to a relationship.
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic 'metaphor'
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy 'metaphor' for contemporary America.
From what I've read the film is more of a 'metaphor' for home coming/coming out.
Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and 'metaphor' .
It's almost a 'metaphor' for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.
Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a 'metaphor' for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
He is a recurring 'metaphor' for the colour and movement of Australians at play.
I had also meant for this story to be a 'metaphor' for my own life as I knew it and saw it.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
The 'metaphor' of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image.
So if my garden is a 'metaphor' for my life now then I'm in big trouble!
Smoking is an epidemic; it is a 'metaphor' for cancer in its spread as much as it is for infecting people with cancer.
This could be seen as a 'metaphor' for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
Never use a 'metaphor' , simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
I like to think of the rats as a 'metaphor' for the city's egalitarianism.
This would be a good 'metaphor' for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down.
What is known is that the ball was a 'metaphor' for the movement of the sun, and by extension also of the moon and stars.
The description is literal, concrete and concise, rarely using 'metaphors' or similes to extend the image.
Salt's ability to preserve and sustain life has made it a 'metaphorical' symbol in every religion.
Her daily speech is sprinkled with 'metaphors' and witty turns of phrase.
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