Assertion: metaphor | /r/HasProperty | explicit
Facets:
value: like similes
type: OTHER
value: in nature
type: LOCATION
value: in the sense
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Like similes, metaphors can be either implicit or explicit in nature.
text: Metaphors can be implied and extended throughout pieces of literature.
text: Like similes, metaphors can be either implicit or explicit in nature.
text: A metaphor is an implied comparison, as in "the silk of the singer's voice," in contrast to the explicit comparison of the simile, which uses like or as, as in "a voice smooth like silk.
text: Metaphor, figure of speech that implies comparison between two unlike entities, as distinguished from simile, an explicit comparison signalled by the words like or as.
text: A metaphor is explicit if the characteristic being compared is stated.
text: Nevertheless, some metaphors are explicit in the sense that they liken one or more named things or kinds to one or more other named things or kinds by means of locutions regularly found in overt literal statements of identity, membership, or inclusion:
text: On the other hand, the toughest metaphors are indirect and implied.
text: while other metaphors are implicit in that they eschew such simple alignments, mingling primary subject language and secondary subject language almost at random, yet in such a way as to leave listeners able to work out which is which and what’s being likened to what else: