VOL. 1 ISSUE 6 NOVEMBER 2014 ISSN 2349-5650 www.literaryquest.org 107 LITERARY QUEST An International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Monthly, Online Journal of English Language and Literature A Study of Metaphors in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger Dr. Archana Kumari Assistant Professor, Department of English & Foreign Languages, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya Central University, Bilaspur, Chattisgarh, India. Abstract One of the aims of literary text is to say as much briefly as possible to convey the maximum. In other words, it aims to say more in few words to achieve a maximum effect. Metaphor, a figure of speech, has an important role, as it includes figurative meaning of words besides its literary meaning. In this article, metaphors in Arvind Adiga’s debut novel, The White Tiger have been studied to find out how they contribute to the portrayal of the perpetual intent of the author on one hand, and help the reader’s comprehension on the other. Keywords Figurative language; Metaphor; Aravind Adiga; The White Tiger. ———————— ———————— Figures of speech are important tools in both literature and ordinary communication and they are used to illustrate a subject figuratively. The language that uses figures of speech is called 'figurative language' and “its