The sun is like a big fireball. . Is it a figurative sentence?

"Sun" and "fireball" are two different things, but they have the same characteristics in appearance and temperature. The metaphor here compares their similarity to a common object in our life, which makes the characteristics of the sun more vivid and concrete.

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First, the composition of metaphor

1, metaphorical content has three elements: one is the object of thought, that is, the original intention; The second is another thing, figurative; The third is the similarity between the two.

2. Literally, it is divided into three parts, namely: ontology (figurative things or situations), metaphor (words expressing figurative relations) and metaphor (figurative things or situations). Some dictionaries supplement and explain its composition into four components, namely, ontology, metaphor, metaphor and metaphor.

Second, the difference between metaphor and analogy

For example, neither vehicle nor metaphor appeared, but the characteristics of vehicle were preserved and added directly to ontology. Make ontology have some characteristics or modality of people or things: formally, it is ontology (noun)+verb or adjective; The form of metaphor must be ontology (noun)+figurative words+vehicle (noun). Metonymy does not appear ontology and figurative words can actually be reduced to similes, and the essence is the same.

Use metaphors to describe and express the characteristics of things. It can make things vivid and tangible, thus arousing readers' association and imagination, giving people a vivid and profound impression, describing profound truth with simple things, turning abstraction into concreteness, simplifying complexity and helping people to understand deeply. And make the language vivid and rich in literary talent.

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