Metaphor:
যদি কোন বাক্যে দুটি জিনিসসের মধ্যে তুলনা বোঝায় তাহলে Metaphor বসে। Metaphor এর সাথে as, such, like থাকে না।
[ a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.]
i) Life is but a walking shadow. [ জীবন একটি চলমান ছায়া মাত্র]
ii) My brother was boiling mad. (This implies he was too angry.)
iii) The assignment was a breeze. (This implies that the assignment was not difficult.)
iv) Revenge is a kind of wild justice
v) He is the only hope of his family
vi) "She is all states, and all princes, I."
vii) "Shall I Compare Thee to a summer's Day".
viii) All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances
Note: একই জাতীয় বস্তুর/বিষয়ের মধ্যে তুলনা হলে Metaphor হবে না। যেমন- Nazrul is Shelly- এখানে দুই'জনই ব্যক্তি বা একই বৈশিষ্ট্যের, তাই Metaphor হবে না। কিন্তু যদি বলি-Life is a dream- এখানে- life এবং Dream শব্দ দুটি একই বৈশিষ্ট্যের নয়, তাই তুলনাটি Metaphor হবে।
# বহুনির্বাচনী প্রশ্ন
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely aid more temperate:
Rough winds to shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd ;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd :
But they eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest ;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade.
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So bug as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
As soon as I saw the elephant. I knew, with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him. It was a serious matter to shoot a working elephant ____ as it is comparable to destroying a huge and costly piece of machinery ____ and obviously one might not do it if it can possibly be avoided. And, at that distance. peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow. I did not want to shoot him.
But at that moment, I glanced at the crowd that followed me. It was an immense crowd _____ rwe thousand at the least and growing every minute. It blocked the road for a long distance on either side. I looked at the sea of faces _____ faces all happy and excited over the bit of fun, ail certain that the elephant was going to be shot. And, suddenly, I realised that I should have to shoot the elephant after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it. I could feel their two thousand wills pressing me forward, irresistibly.
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