The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up --flaked up, with rose-water snow.
Definition of PARADOX for Kids. 1. : a statement that seems to say opposite things and yet is perhaps true. 2. : a person or thing having qualities that seem to be opposite.
metaphor definition. The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as: âA man is but a weak reedâ; âThe road was a ribbon of moonlight.â Metaphors are common in literature and expansive speech. (Compare simile.)