Sunday, September 19, 2010

Juxtapositions | Metaphors



Juxtaposition:
  • the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
  • a side-by-side position
    wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
  • A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side, often done in order to compare/contrast the two, to show similarities or differences; An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together; Two or more contrasting sounds, registers, styles etc. ...
    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/juxtaposition

Simile:
  • A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another, in the case of English generally using like or as
    en.wiktionary.org/wiki/simile
  • Simile is a comparison of two dissimilar objects that uses the words like or as. See, for example, Karen Connelly's description of herself in "Touch the Dragon": "As the country pulls out from under me, I overturn like a glass of water on a yanked tablecloth, I spill. ...
    www.pearsoned.ca/text/flachmann4/gloss_iframe.html
  • a figure that explicitly expresses the comparison, often signaled by "like" or "as"
    www.indiana.edu/~bestsell/glossary.html
  • A comparison, usually using "like" or "as", of two essentially dissimilar things, as in "coffee as cold as ice" or "He sounded like a broken record." The title of Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" contains a simile. (Compare with Metaphor.)
    www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/glossary/glossary_s.htm
source: google define

In mybelieve, Juxtaposition is
an act or instance of placing close together or side by side

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