metaphor
ರೂಪಕ
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 '
ರೂಪಕೋಕ್ತಿ,
ರೂಪಕಾಲಂಕಾರ
example
In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a 'metaphor' for being reluctant to commit to a relationship.
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
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.
Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a 'metaphor' for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
The book's title is, of course, a 'metaphor' for what she as a writer does.
I like to think of the rats as a 'metaphor' for the city's egalitarianism.
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy 'metaphor' for contemporary America.
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.
The torso also includes the heart, a 'metaphor' for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.
This could be seen as a 'metaphor' for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic.
Smoking is an epidemic; it is a 'metaphor' for cancer in its spread as much as it is for infecting people with cancer.
This would be a good 'metaphor' for something, no doubt, if I could only pin it down.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
He is a recurring 'metaphor' for the colour and movement of Australians at play.
Yet its importance as a 'metaphor' for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
The title is a 'metaphor' for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize.
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic 'metaphor'
It's almost a 'metaphor' for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.
The 'metaphor' of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image.
From what I've read the film is more of a 'metaphor' for home coming/coming out.
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.
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' .
As early as the 16th century theorists had compared musical figures to 'metaphors' .
No longer will one or two tropes or 'metaphors' serve to characterize the poetic work done by women.
Although my mind usually prefers the dead of night to tap me 'metaphorically' on the shoulder and remind me of everything that's wrong with my life.
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