Metaphor vs Juxtaposition - What's the difference?
metaphor | juxtaposition |
(uncountable, figure of speech) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like'' or ''as , which would imply a simile.
* What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors''', metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are '''metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.'' — Friedrich Nietzsche, ''On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense , 1870, translated by Daniel Beazeale, 1979.
(countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison.
The nearness of objects with no delimiter.
# (grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.
# (mathematics) An absence of operators in an expression.
#* 2007 , Lawrence Moss and Hans-Jörg Tiede, Applications of Modal Logic in Linguistics'', in: P. Blackburn et al (eds), ''Handbook of Modal Logic , Elsevier, p. 1054
The extra emphasis given to a comparison when the contrasted objects are close together.
# (arts) Two or more contrasting sounds, colours, styles etc. placed together for stylistic effect.
# (rhetoric) The close placement of two ideas to imply a link that may not exist.
As nouns the difference between metaphor and juxtaposition
is that metaphor is (uncountable|figure of speech) the use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of english without the words like'' or ''as , which would imply a simile while juxtaposition is the nearness of objects with no delimiter.As a verb juxtaposition is
to place in juxtaposition.metaphor
English
(wikipedia metaphor)Noun
Hypernyms
* figure of speechDerived terms
* dead metaphor * extended metaphor * malaphor * metaphorical * metaphorical extension * metaphoricity * metaphorism * stale metaphorSee also
* analogy * idiom * metonymy * similejuxtaposition
English
Noun
(en noun)- Example: mother father'' instead of ''mother and father
- Using juxtaposition for multiplication saves space when writing longer expressions. collapses to .
- A fundamental operation on strings is string concatenation which we will denote by juxtaposition .
- There was a poignant juxtaposition between the boys laughing in the street and the girl crying on the balcony above.
- The juxtaposition of the bright yellows on the dark background made the painting appear three dimensional.
- Example: In 1965 the government was elected; in 1965 the economy took a dive.