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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs this a metaphor or a simile?
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Vehicle carrying massive pro-Trump display crashes into telephone pole in three-car pileup
An ambulance that was towing a massive pro-Trump "Unity Bridge" was involved in a three-car pileup in Michigan that resulted in it crashing head-first into a telephone pole.MLive reports that "the...
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-unity-bridge-crash/
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Is this a metaphor or a simile? (Original Post)
bigtree
Sep 2021
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hlthe2b
(101,730 posts)1. Well, it is certainly fitting.
rsdsharp
(9,042 posts)2. I tried to enlarge it, and I didn't see "like" or "as"
so I dont think its a simile, but it may be poetic justice rather than a metaphor.
EYESORE 9001
(25,812 posts)3. It's a metaphor
and also a contradiction in terms. Rump and unity? Please!
malaise
(267,824 posts)4. A Metaphor
but should I call the Wambulance?
brush
(53,475 posts)5. An oxymoron.
Beastly Boy
(9,063 posts)6. It's a double-entendre.
A total wreck, in more ways than one.
On edit: I still can't get over an ambulance, a Trump "unity bridge" and a telephone pole being involved in a three-car pileup. What are the odds? Makes me wonder if there is a polar bear being hit by lightning inside that gas station...
Celerity
(42,666 posts)7. a mise en scene of shitbaggery
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)8. The message on the trailer looks like irony to me. nt