JoeMoma
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If the name calling fits the definition of metaphor, then it is a metaphor. Being derogatory does not make it not a metaphor.He was simply name calling. Calling me a c**t or you an a**hole isn't a metaphor, either, for example.nounCalling someone an animal is not a metaphor, and I ought to know; I'm an English teacher.You are against the use of metaphors?This kind of rhetoric is why I keep warning against dehumanizing language like calling anyone "animals." She was a young woman. She's dead. Maybe she was rushing the cop and in a bunch like that, he may well have feared for his life. Probably she wasn't the one he was most worried about.The asshole OP was trying to guilt us into his commie bullshit. Gotta fight fire with fire.
It is the reaction here by posters that is more worrisome. It is the REAL communists who use propaganda to bend citizens to their will. You should not let them deceive you into undeserved hatred for illegal immigrants. They're just people. I don't want them sneaking in either, but there is no reason to hate them.
- a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
So you beleive Trump was being literal? Sorry, your appeal to authority (being an English teacher) doesn’t justify your statement when the definition of metaphor fits perfectly.
You need to send your degree back for a refund.