Comments on: Building a Better Blog for 2007: Be Yourself http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/09/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-be-yourself/ Simple, applicable personal finance advice for the modern world Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:08:32 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: russ http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/09/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-be-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-2573 russ Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:53:33 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/09/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-be-yourself/#comment-2573 Actually, if a "simile is a metaphore using like or as" as I learned in grade school (and through SchoolHouse Rock), then metaphore is just a looser term to describe the same thing (like 'all squares are rectangles', similes are a subset of metaphores) Hmm, after looking at your link, I'd have to say that "riding Robert Kiyosaki" is a metaphore in the way you mean it. :) Unless you mean 'riding' literally... Actually, if a “simile is a metaphore using like or as” as I learned in grade school (and through SchoolHouse Rock), then metaphore is just a looser term to describe the same thing (like ‘all squares are rectangles’, similes are a subset of metaphores)

Hmm, after looking at your link, I’d have to say that “riding Robert Kiyosaki” is a metaphore in the way you mean it. :) Unless you mean ‘riding’ literally…

]]> By: Flexo http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/09/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-be-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Flexo Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:19:06 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/12/09/building-a-better-blog-for-2007-be-yourself/#comment-810 "Like a drunk man on a mechanical bull" is certainly descriptive, but it's a simile and not a <a href="http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor" rel="nofollow">metaphor</a>. :-) “Like a drunk man on a mechanical bull” is certainly descriptive, but it’s a simile and not a metaphor. :-)

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