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.
A metaphor is a device in writing that confers a similarity of meaning to one word or phrase with another, such as his stormy mood darkened everyone's good time . A simile is a subset of the metaphor concept but is quite obvious about it using like or as in the comparison: life is like a box of chocolates.