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The mother in the poem uses a metaphor of a staircase to convey "the hardships of Black life" while also her progress and perseverance. [ 6 ] : 35 As the woman is climbing the stairs, she becomes almost comparable to a religious figure ascending into the heavens, yet remains simply human.
A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".
Halfway down the stairs Is a stair Where I sit. There isn't any Other stair Quite like It. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair Where I always Stop. Halfway up the stairs Isn't up And isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, It isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts Run round my head: "It isn't really Anywhere ...
Kathie Lee Gifford is on the mend after a fall down the stairs in her Tennessee home left her with a fractured pelvis in two places — and she credits it all to the "hundreds of thousands of ...
In the 1933 screwball comedy Three-Cornered Moon, when a struggling artist dating Claudette Colbert is evicted, his landlord slides a Duchamp-esque painting down the front stairs of the building. In the poem "Journey: The North Coast" by Australian poet Robert Gray , the line "Down these slopes move, as a nude descends a staircase,/ slender ...
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The metaphor of the "slippery slope" dates back at least to Cicero's essay Laelius de Amicitia (XII.41). The title character Gaius Laelius Sapiens uses the metaphor to describe the decline of the Republic upon the impending election of Gaius Gracchus : "Affairs soon move on, for they glide readily down the path of ruin when once they have taken ...
Kent, 30, teased via an Instagram video shared on Saturday, August 24, as he joined McCollum on stage and went straight for the stairs to make sure they were safe to walk on. “Come on dog ...