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  2. Year: 2022
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Month: December 2022

Metaphorically Speaking: Metaphors and Similes during the Debate over Ratifying the Constitution

Posted on December 12, 2022

Metaphors and similes can be powerful rhetorical devices. What are they? A metaphor compares two unlike objects or ideas and illuminates them in a word or phrase that otherwise might be expressed in many words. …

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