Proverb vs Metaphor - What's the difference?
proverb | metaphor |
A phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations.
A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.
* Bible, John xvi. 29
A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 37
A drama exemplifying a proverb.
To write or utter proverbs.
To name in, or as, a proverb.
* 1671 , John Milton, Samson Agonistes , lines 203-205:
To provide with a proverb.
* Shakespeare
(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 proverb and metaphor
is that proverb is a phrase expressing a basic truth which may be applied to common situations 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 a verb proverb
is to write or utter proverbs.proverb
English
(wikipedia proverb)Noun
(en noun)- His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb .
- Thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb , and a by word, among all nations.
Synonyms
* (phrase expressing a basic truth) adage, apothegm, byword, maxim, paroemia, saw, saying, sententia * See alsoDerived terms
* proverbial * proverbiology * proverbs hunt in pairsVerb
(en verb)- Am I not sung and proverbed for a fool / In every street, do they not say, "How well / Are come upon him his deserts?"
- I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.
