metaphor
రూపకాలంకారం
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.
translation of 'metaphor'
రూపకం
example
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.
I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a 'metaphor' for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
It's almost a 'metaphor' for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy 'metaphor' for contemporary America.
The torso also includes the heart, a 'metaphor' for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.
So if my garden is a 'metaphor' for my life now then I'm in big trouble!
Never use a 'metaphor' , simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
This would be a good 'metaphor' for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down.
Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a 'metaphor' for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
This could be seen as a 'metaphor' for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic.
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic 'metaphor'
Smoking is an epidemic; it is a 'metaphor' for cancer in its spread as much as it is for infecting people with cancer.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and 'metaphor' .
I like to think of the rats as a 'metaphor' for the city's egalitarianism.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
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.
The book's title is, of course, a 'metaphor' for what she as a writer does.
From what I've read the film is more of a 'metaphor' for home coming/coming out.
The title is a 'metaphor' for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize.
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.
Yet its importance as a 'metaphor' for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
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.
Neither can a concern with the ear and the eye be taken simply as a reading of particular 'metaphors' , however powerfully conceived.
Although there is no use of 'metaphors' or similes, there are beautiful descriptions in this book.
We think in similes and 'metaphors' ; some people simply carry the levels of identification farther than others.
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