metaphor
रूपकाच्या
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'
रुपक (अलंकार)
example
He is a recurring 'metaphor' for the colour and movement of Australians at play.
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
when we speak of gene maps and gene mapping, we use a cartographic 'metaphor'
The title is a 'metaphor' for the need to satisfy cravings that perhaps we do not always fully recognize.
Never use a 'metaphor' , simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Yet its importance as a 'metaphor' for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons.
This could be seen as a 'metaphor' for writing fiction, but the story itself seems too schematic.
her poetry depends on suggestion and 'metaphor'
It's almost a 'metaphor' for immigrant life, which has to be retooled to succeed in America.
So if my garden is a 'metaphor' for my life now then I'm in big trouble!
the amounts of money being lost by the company were enough to make it a 'metaphor' for an industry that was teetering
The torso also includes the heart, a 'metaphor' for your vital life force, as well as representing the bonds of love.
The 'metaphor' of consumption dominates this speech and connects each image.
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.
I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a 'metaphor' for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
Images are often presented through figures of speech like simile and 'metaphor' .
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.
I like to think of the rats as a 'metaphor' for the city's egalitarianism.
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.
In the story, this inability to finish a picture is a 'metaphor' for being reluctant to commit to a relationship.
What kept me reading was how the novel worked as such a creepy 'metaphor' for contemporary America.
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.
I had also meant for this story to be a 'metaphor' for my own life as I knew it and saw it.
Somehow niggling at my brain is this apartment as a 'metaphor' for the Korean Way of Doing Things.
It is his method of organising words, images and 'metaphors' to create the particular effect he seeks to achieve.
The description is literal, concrete and concise, rarely using 'metaphors' or similes to extend the image.
I doubt I have ever read a novel with so many extravagantly nonsensical similes and rococo 'metaphors' .
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