Autofiction definition of metaphor

Definition of Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two non-similar things. As a literary device, metaphor creates implicit comparisons without the express use of “like” or “as.” Metaphor is a means of asserting that two things are identical in comparison rather than just similar.

This is useful in literature for using specific images or concepts to state abstract truths.

For example, one of the most famousmetaphors in literature is featured in this line from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet: What light through yonder window breaks?

It is the East, and Juliet, the sun!

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In this metaphor, Juliet is compared to the sun. In fact, this figure of speech claims that Juliet is the sun. Of course, the reader understands that Romeo does not believe that Juliet is literally the sun. Instead, the comparison demonstrates the idea that Romeo equates Juliet with the beauty, awe, and life-giving force of the sun.

To Romeo, symbolically, Juliet