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Craig White's Literature Courses
Terms / Themes
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Metaphor & Extended Metaphor |
metaphor = a figure of speech (other figures include
hyperbole, irony, metonymy, synecdoche, understatement
metaphor definition = speaking of the unknown in terms of the
known
thereby metaphor can learn or shape the unknown
comparing one thing to another
simile and metaphor
comparing one thing to another
simile, analogy < like, as
metaphor = no apparatus
extended metaphor
examples
Three
Genres, ch. 1
p. 1 line,
images, sound, rhythm, density
p. 3 images =
senses
p. 4 a genre
of the senses
an image can appeal to sight, sound,
smell, taste, touch
but mostly visual
Ch. 4 Images: The Essential element
57 images as concrete nouns (explain
“concrete”)
Opposite: abstraction
> translate into sight and sound
58 a fully developed image
58-9 strong nouns, x-adjectives
59 images > figures of speech
60 simile, metaphor—both comparisons
60 examples
62-3 other figures of speech
63 cliché as dying metaphor
65 image as symbol, greater range of
meaning
67 public symbol
68- image clusters (extended metaphor)
Definitions of metaphor on the Web:
- a figure of speech in which one thing is referred
to as another; for example, “my love is a fragile flower”
kmhs.typepad.com/parrott_ap_english_langua/files/rhetorical_terms.doc
- A figure of speech "in which one thing, idea, or
action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another
thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by
the two. ...
writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng216/216terms.html
- a figure of speech wherein a comparison is made
between two unlike things without the use of words like or as.
ks.hinuch.net/web/katza/%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA/%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%99+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%94/Literary+Terms/
- A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that
ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus
making a comparison, as in "She is an angel on the platform".
www.publicspeakingcourse.com/glossaryk-o.htm
- A figure of speech that makes a comparison
between two things that are basically different but have something in
common; unlike a simile, a metaphor does not contain the words like or
as (ie, in the evening of life)
www.thinkport.org/5d8dadfd-d99a-4295-88ce-ca8a39e449ff.asset
- an implied comparison between two unlike objects
or things where one object is stated to be the other object
sb169.k12.sd.us/Definitions.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&defl=en&q=define:metaphor&ei=co2ySqXaE5KwtgfAvOG2Dg&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title
Examples of Metaphor from
Everyday Speech
By
Ginny Wiehardt, About.com
We don't have to look very far to find
examples of
metaphor. From expressions like "raining cats and dogs" to
"table leg" and "old flame," everyday speech is full of examples
of metaphor.
With regard to "table leg," we all have
experience with legs, so in calling the thing that supports a
table a "leg," we know immediately that it is long, thin,
straight, and that it holds the table up, just as a leg holds up
a body.
"Old flame," on the other hand, reflects
an emotional knowledge -- the way we experience love as a
burning sensation, or a kind of heat. (And, in fact, many of our
metaphors about love involve the idea of heat: someone's eyes
might "smolder," Johnny Cash sang of a "ring of fire," etc.) In
everyday speech, many metaphors are so subtle that we use them
without realizing it.
Examples of common
similes (in case you wondered) include "fit as a fiddle,"
"right as rain," and "sharp as a tack."
A heart of stone
He has the heart of a lion
You are the light in my life
She is my East and my West, my compass.
Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.
Love is a lemon - either bitter of sweet
It is raining cats and dogs
Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of Spring
A light in a sea of darkness.
(adapted from http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/spoon/metaphors.php)
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