Question

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

A. The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words.

B. It is with blocks of just such arbitrary size and figure that the literary architect is condemned to design the palace of his art.

C. But though this form of merit is without doubt the most sensible and seizing, it is far from being equally present in all writers.

D. The effect of words in Shakespeare, their singular justice, significance, and poetic charm, is different, indeed, from the effect of words in Addison or Fielding.

Answer 1

So metaphor means: a type of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Answer 2

I know that bro... but I don't see anything that matches

Answer 3

Moved to English

Answer 4

@Professional

Answer 5

I have no idea. A or B

Answer 6

Which one is better?

Answer 7

none make sense tho e.e

Answer 8

Agreed :(

Answer 9

My lucky guess is A

Answer 10

Which of the following contains a reference to the tactile or feeling sense?

A. The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in which the literary artist works is the dialect of life; hence, on the one hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other, a singular limitation.

B. … no inscrutable shadow, as in painting; no blank wall, as in architecture; but every word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph must move in a logical progression, and convey a definite conventional import.

C. … restore to them their primal energy, wittily shift them to another issue, or make of them a drum to rouse the passions.

D. The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words.

Answer 11

is this based on a story or passage you had to read