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METAPHOR AND SIMILE IN JEAN WEBSTER’S DADDY-LONG-LEGS

Metaphor
Metaphor – which asserts a correlation or resemblance between two things that are
otherwise unrelated - is used quite often by Jean Webster, making the novel more appealing
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Example 1: “I'm finding Mrs
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What the author wants to say is that Judy finds Mrs
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Judy writes this after Jervis leaves the farm
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Semple says is
bland
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Jelly-fish implies that the person mentioned doesn’t have a backbone, a strength of will
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Example 3: “He's a queer old duck; he goes about with his head in the clouds and blinks
dazedly when occasionally he strikes solid earth
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Queer old duck implies that he’s
a weird old man who daydreams most of the time (head in the clouds) and is disoriented
when he becomes aware of his surroundings (strikes solid earth)
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The whole sentence is a metaphor
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The
Cat represents secret, while I grabbed it by its tail and pulled it back can be interpreted as ‘I
held back myself from revealing my secret’
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Simile
Other than metaphors, the author makes comparisons in her writing using simile – a figure
of speech and a type of metaphor that compares two different things using the words “like”
or “as
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Smith requires, so you must be as punctilious in sending them as though it
were a bill that you were paying
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Lippett is telling Jerusha how important it is for her to send Daddy-Long-Legs letters
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Example 2: “And every day for a week I was tired, like a naughty puppy
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Other examples are: ”I've burned a hole as big as a plate in the front of my chemistry apron”
and “I am sure we should all be as happy as kings
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