2007-03-15 11:32:13 · 6 answers · asked by h.a 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It could be comparing the mud to a clock, but more likely it is not. Clockwise and counter clockwise are directions.
2007-03-15 11:40:57 · answer #1 · answered by John G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, a metaphor compares two things. The sentence you listed is just a discription of how the mud is moving.
A metaphor would be: The mud continued to swirl around us in a rapid clockwise motion like a whirlpool
(Yeah, I know, that's actually a simile, but you get the picture.)
2007-03-15 11:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by Luc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...unless the mud is representing something else, like a swirl of problems, but it most likely isn't, so it isn't a metaphor. Clockwise would be a direction.
2007-03-15 12:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by I am soooo splendiferous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you are just giving a description. To make it a metaphor, you'd have to say something like, "the muddy clock swirled around us"-"the clock of mud rapidly swept around us", or the like.
2007-03-15 12:03:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... that's just a description of something happening.
if you were to say:
*insert noun* is a mud that condinues to swirl around us...
that would be a metaphor
2007-03-15 11:44:55 · answer #5 · answered by Wadd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a metaphor is a similie(sp?) without "like" or "as" in comparison. the sentence wasn't really comparing the mud to anything. just describing its motion.
2007-03-15 12:10:28 · answer #6 · answered by circus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋