Sophomore vs Metaphor - What's the difference?
sophomore | metaphor |
(US) The second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university.
(US) A second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school.
(US, horse-racing) A three year old horse.
(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.
As nouns the difference between sophomore and metaphor
is that sophomore is (us) a second-year undergraduate student in a college or university, or a second-year student in a four-year secondary school or high school while 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.As an adjective sophomore
is (us) the second in a series, especially, the second of an artist’s albums or the second of four years in a high school (tenth grade) or university.sophomore
English
(wikipedia sophomore)Adjective
(-)- The band’s sophomore album built upon the success of their debut release, catapulting them to megastardom.
Noun
(en noun)- She was very mature for a sophomore and had several friends who were juniors or even seniors.
- The filly had looked promising as a sophomore , but concerns over her health had prompted the owner to pull her from the season’s early races.
Derived terms
* softmore * sophomoricReferences
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