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Whirlwind (2007) IMDB rating: 4.40 Plot: A tight knit group of good looking, successful gay men in New York City have their lives upturned when a hot young stranger with a bitter past enters their circle. He first adds excitement to their routine but soon causes rifts among them, all the while letting his own relationships unravel around him.

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Help me find metaphors?
I have these poem and I have to find a metaphor inside one of them.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A METAPHOR IS!!!
Help?

Without Warning
As a whirlwind
Stoops on an oak
Love shakes my heart.
- Sappho, ancient greek

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature’s law is wrong, it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.
- Tupak Shakur

He clasps the crag with crooked hands
Close to the sun in lonely lands
RInged with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls
He watches from his mountain walls
And like a thunderbolt, he falls.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

please help!

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Metaphor- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity…

Example: "My car’s a rocket!"

Note: a metaphor is different from a simile- you can tell a simile because it uses "like" or "as", and metaphors do not.

Now get to work…
jammin7000 | Feb 03, 2010

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an example of a metaphor would be ‘you are the moon’, a metaphor is when you are comparing something to something else unlike a simile which uses ‘like’ or ‘as’ e.g. ‘you are like the sun’
topcat | Feb 03, 2010

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I don’t care for that definition of metaphor. While it’s accurate it doesn’t specify the difference between a metaphor and a simile. You’re looking for a comparison that doesn’t use "like" or "as."

So "And like a thunderbolt, he falls" is a simile, not a metaphor. Not part of your question, but something to be careful of.

I’m not telling you where the metaphor is though. Sorry! I want you to learn how to find it.
Kate | Feb 03, 2010

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In the poem, the stanza about the rose is a metaphor. The rose is used to substitute for a person who grew up without much in the way of help or resources but still made it. When you read a metaphor, you can make the transition from the example to something else because the writer usually then takes the metaphor back to reality.

The wrinkled sea is also a metaphor.

Close to the sun in lonely lands is a metaphor.

As the whilrwind stoops on on an oak is a metaphor.

When you see the words like or as, it is a simile which is similar to a metaphor but makes a direct comparison: "Like a thunderbolt, he falls."

Here is a sample of a metaphor and a simile.

The tin can sat in the middle of the street crushed by untold numbers of passing cars. Yet, despite all the damage, you could still tell what it was before the damage.

Jim Smith came back from the war less his legs and the sight in his left eye. His wife, looking at him, knew that under all the loss and pain was the man she had married.

The first paragraph is a metaphor identical to the facts in paragraph two.

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He ran faster than the wind from the west that blows through town every winter.

This is a simile comparing a fast runner to the wind. In a simile, you always have the two parts togetehr: the subject: the runner, the simile: the wind. You also have a potential mataphor if the man is going to just blow through town like the wind!

Hope this helps a little.
Milton | Feb 03, 2010