Could you help me interpret this simile?
I'm reading the Odyssey in my english class and my teacher assigned us each a part that we have to read aloud to the class. If your part has a homeric simile then you have to explain what it means, but I'm not really sure. I think I have two: 1. "And the suitors mad with fear at her great sign stampeded like stung cattle by a river when the dread shimmering gadfly strikes in summer." I think that means that the suitors ran with fear like cattle running away from a pest [gadfly means like and annoying pest]. 2. "After them the attackers wheeled, as terrible as falcons from eyries in the mountains veering over and diving down with talons wide unsheathed on flights of birds, who cower down the sky in chutes and bursts along the valley......" Thanks! I'll award 10 points
What is a simile in the Gospel of John?
are you kidding me. . . i'm in the middle of my final project for christology class which is worth 20% of my grade and due tomorrow, and i need a simile. . . and i happened to pick the one gospel with no similes. . .BIBLICAL FAIL. whatever thanks the first guy, you will indeed get your points.
What are examples of similes in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech?
A simile uses “as” or “like” to compare one thing to another:“This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves ,,,”" we will not be satisfied until ‘justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.’"
What is a simile for these science terms?
similes (click the words to the left of the page): http://brian041391.tripod.com/index.html metaphors and similes, especially Best Answer: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
Christians, can you please give me a metaphor and a simile about your god?
Why, so you can berate Him .....I don't think so.
The simile “like a thief in the night” is an allusion to the...?
.. Biblical allusion to the day of judgment which will come “like a thief in the night.” Why is this a proper allusion to the “Red Death” ? Anyone have an answer? I go to a digital school.. So I don't have help 5 days awake for 8 hours each day.
What are some examples of metaphors in the Bible?
Question: What are some examples of Biblical metaphors?Metaphors are abundant in the Bible. The most famous Biblical metaphor — “The Lord is my shepherd” — is the beginning of a whole chapter of them. Among them:He takes me to lush pastures.He leads me to refreshing water.You prepare a feast before me.You refresh my head with oil.My cup is completely full.I will live in the Lord’s house for the rest of my life.The above, of course, are taken from the 23rd Psalm. (I’ve used the New English Translation of the Bible throughout this answer.)Some other metaphors that are well known:The Lord is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer. My God is my rocky summit where I take shelter, my shield, the horn that saves me, and my refuge. (Psalm 18:2)For he is our God; we are the people of his pasture, the sheep he owns. (Psalm 95:7)We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor. (Isaiah 64:8)I am the light of the world. (John 18:12)I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:35)If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. (1 Corinthians 13:1)In addition to these direct metaphors, there are dozens of stories that can be understood metaphorically:Adam and Eve can be thought of as metaphors for every man and woman. In fact, the names “Adam” and “Eve” come from Hebrew words for “man” and “living,” respectively.The writer of 1 Peter treats the story of Noah’s ark as a metaphor for baptism. Baptism itself can be thought of as a physical metaphor symbolic of cleansing and renewal.In Matthew 12, Jesus treats the story of Jonah and the whale as a type of metaphor (technically, a foreshadowing) for his pending death and resurrection.In the gospel of Matthew, Jesus often uses “the kingdom of heaven is like” to create similes, which are closely related to metaphors.Many of the parables of Jesus are extended metaphors. For example, in the story of the Prodigal Son, the father can be seen as a metaphor for God.I’ve only scratched the surface here. (There’s another metaphor!) There may be thousands more, certainly hundreds.
How can you find out if the Bible is metaphorical?
There is no way to find out the authors’ intentions, as they are all dead, and we have none of the accompanying literature (letters, diaries, or the like).If you want to know whether to treat any part of the Bible as metaphorical, the first thing to do is assess whether it is true. One of the characteristics of metaphors is that they are false statements. Juliet is not the sun, otherwise Romeo would be burned to a cinder, and books do not actually mirror the soul, indeed most of them are not reflective at all.So, once you have identified the false bits of the Bible (and there are lots), you can choose to treat them as metaphors if you so wish. Some parts are more amenable to metaphorical interpretation than others, though.So, the story of Noah and the ark sounds like an allegory from beginning to end, where an allegory is an extended metaphor or set of metaphors in a story form.But you might want to treat as just a falsehood the claim in Chronicles that Jehoram took the throne at age 32, reigned for 8 years, and was then succeeded by his son, Ahaziah, who was 42 at the time (two years older than his own father).It is also hard to take instructions as metaphors. They have the wrong grammatical form.