Is this a metaphor, a simile, or an analogy?

[Farang]

I feel like I'm back in 3rd grade or something but this is confusing me.. my textbook refers to it as an "analogy" but I need examples of metaphors and from the definitions I've read it seems like the book is mistaken and it is indeed a metaphor.

Heaven's net is indeed vast
Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

I say its a metaphor because it doesn't say "Heaven is like a net," it just uses "net" to describe heaven's reach.

 

[Crono]

Metaphor. Similies are direct, using "like". Analogies are also direct, comparing one thing to another.

EDIT: I'm probably not being too helpful, but this link might be.

 

[Farang]

Originally posted by: Crono
Metaphor. Similies are direct, using "like". Analogies are also direct, comparing one thing to another.

EDIT: I'm probably not being too helpful, but this link might be.

Thanks.. I think that link you gave proved it.

."Here hand is a slender ivory sculpture" is a metaphor."

I was just a bit hesitant to contradict the textbook but it does seem to be a metaphor.

 

[Zenmervolt]

It's an analogy.

Heaven's net is indeed vast
Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

"Heaven" is not compared to a net, either directly (e.g. "Heaven is a net that is vast") or using "like" or "as" (e.g. "Heaven is like a net that is vast"). Rather, one aspect of Heaven, it's reach, is shown as being analogous to a net.

It's not a metaphor since it is not directly saying that Heaven is a net, rather it is using the analogue of a net to describe Heaven's reach.

ZV

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
It's an analogy.

Heaven's net is indeed vast
Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

"Heaven" is not compared to a net, either directly (e.g. "Heaven is a net that is vast") or using "like" or "as" (e.g. "Heaven is like a net that is vast"). Rather, one aspect of Heaven, it's reach, is shown as being analogous to a net.

It's not a metaphor since it is not directly saying that Heaven is a net, rather it is using the analogue of a net to describe Heaven's reach.

ZV

I think I agree with this interpretation.

Also, I like pie.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: shortylickens

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
It's an analogy.

Heaven's net is indeed vast
Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

"Heaven" is not compared to a net, either directly (e.g. "Heaven is a net that is vast") or using "like" or "as" (e.g. "Heaven is like a net that is vast"). Rather, one aspect of Heaven, it's reach, is shown as being analogous to a net.

It's not a metaphor since it is not directly saying that Heaven is a net, rather it is using the analogue of a net to describe Heaven's reach.

ZV

I think I agree with this interpretation.

Also, I like pie.

Cheesecakepie?

 

[Alone]

Analogy, no doubt.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
It's an analogy.

Heaven's net is indeed vast
Though its meshes are wide, it misses nothing.

"Heaven" is not compared to a net, either directly (e.g. "Heaven is a net that is vast") or using "like" or "as" (e.g. "Heaven is like a net that is vast"). Rather, one aspect of Heaven, it's reach, is shown as being analogous to a net.

It's not a metaphor since it is not directly saying that Heaven is a net, rather it is using the analogue of a net to describe Heaven's reach.

ZV

Could you not not say "Heavy's net" is a metaphor for its reach?

n/m I think I see now. There's an implicit comparison.

 

[JohnCU]

i like waffles

 

[Farang]

Goddamnit I already submitted the assignment. Oh well.. I have a feeling the professor either doesn't know what a metaphor is or that most of the class will make the same mistake because he asked us to look for metaphors but 99% of what I found were similes and analogies.

 

[BrokenVisage]

It's an Analaphor. There.. now we can skip the 100+ reply debate on the subject.

 

[nerp]

Analogies are metaphorical by nature. There is a lot of gray area.