Metaphor Essays & Research Papers

Metaphor—a literary technique used to clarify the “darkness inside a cloud” (Selection 2). The power of metaphor is utilized throughout the world of language on a daily basis to clarify, explain, and act as a moral instrument. Metaphor can be described, as it was by Cynthia Ozick, author of The Shawl, as “the mind’s opposable thumb”: just as one cannot grasp objects without an opposable thumb, one can also not write successfully without the aid of metaphor (Selection 1). Metaphor evidently has...

What is a Metaphor ? A Metaphor is an “expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept, where there is some similarity or correlation between the two” according to the LinguaLinks Library. Metaphors are used by anyone trying to convey an idea in an indirect manner. We use them daily without realizing it. Metaphors put a twist in daily language in that they are a unique way of describing a concept. There are common metaphors that we use everyday...

Gareth Morgan's Metaphors of Organizations Introduction Metaphors help simplify complex concepts by integrating an already know term to a new term, therefore making it more comprehensible to the readers. In his book, Images of Organization, Gareth Morgan (2006) simply applied metaphors in bringing to our understanding the different perspectives and faces of organizations (Bottero, K, 2013) This paper would pinpoint and attempt to examine the major metaphoric postulations of...

Idiomatic Expressions 1. Back To Square One - To start again 2. Ball and chain: To be burdened with a task that that cannot be left or abandoned 3. Beat a dead horse: To engage in pointless and repetitive discussion. 4. Between the Devil and the deep blue sea. - In a very difficult situation when any resolution will be unpleasant. 5. Bushed - Tired, completely exhausted 6. Caught With Your Pants Down - Found out! 7. Can't see your nose in front of your face: Being oblivious to...

1 2 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING UNIVERSITY OF DA NANG *** DANANG - 2011 This thesis has been completed at The University of Danang Supervisor: NGŨ THI N HÙNG, Ph.D H VI N M LINH Examiner 1: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Luu Quy Khuong Examiner 2: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Van Phuoc A STUDY OF METAPHOR IN NEWSPAPERS (ENGLISH VERSUS VIETNAMESE) This thesis will be orally defended to the Examining Committee at the Field Study: The English Language Code: 60.22.15 University of...

Metaphor Evaluations Paper TDJ University of Phoenix PHL 251 May 25, 2011 Dr. E. S. Team A Metaphor Evaluations Paper Evaluation of R’s Metaphors R created the metaphors evaluated below he described people and events. In his metaphors, he wrote about family, his daughters, and a friend and by his selection of words, he was conveying sensitivity through his descriptive images of them. Through his comparison of their eyes to the ocean and the stars, it was clear why the ocean would envy...

SanTianna Simmons ENG 1102 25 April 2013 A metaphor is where you show how two unrelated things are similar. For example by saying "Love is a roller-coaster.” A key aspect of a metaphor is use a specific transference of a word into another context. The human mind creates comparisons between different things. The best writers use metaphors. Like poetry, a metaphor will express a thousand different meanings all at once, allowing the writer to convey much more content than they could do...

The use of metaphors are an important factor with any piece of literature. Metaphors add color to creative writings, also establishing depth. A story without metaphors is lifeless, unable to compose another way to view it. The term for a metaphor is a figure of speech in which term is transferred to something it does not literally apply to, this helps the brain create a mental picture which the person might easily understand what the character is feeling. When a person finally...

Metaphor in Hamlet In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III scene 1, Hamlet's soliloquy of "To be or not to be" is full of metaphors that bring the various themes of the play together. One of the primary themes of the play is Hamlet's uncertainty of action and inability to decide how to cope with the problems he faces. In Hamlet's soliloquy, Hamlet metaphorically discusses his indecisiveness about the importance of continuing his life and asks himself "whether ‘tis nobler of the mind to suffer...

Journal of Pragmatics 36 (2004) 1253–1269 Metaphor and translation: some implications of a cognitive approach ¨ Christina Schaffner* School of Languages and European Studies, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK Received 5 June 2003; received in revised form 12 September 2003; accepted 8 October 2003 Abstract Metaphor has been widely discussed within the discipline of Translation Studies, predominantly with respect to translatability and transfer methods. It has been...

The sheer lyrical power of metaphor can be found throughout Ghalib’s poetry. Ghalib utilizes this figure of speech, I believe, to help us connect to and really experience what he is trying to tell us about life, love, and hardship. It seems that, through metaphor, he implores us to delve deeper into his writings and enter into the suffering, heartache, alienation, and ambition that marked his entire life. Using ghazal’s from the Joy of the Drop website, I will examine and discuss the verses...

The use of metaphor in poetry is one of the most important aspects of poetic style that must be mastered. Metaphor can be described as figure of speech in which a thing is referred to as being something that it resembles. For example, a fierce person can be referred to as a tiger. Another example of a metaphor would be the description of a person who was uncommunicative as being as "silent as stone". The word stone is an image that is used to explain the intense silence of the person. In this...

Dead metaphor Description A dead metaphor occurs where the once-evocative transferred image is no longer effective or even understood, perhaps being lost in the aeons of time. Example Fabulous was something worthy of fable. Like many other superlatives, it has lost its original edge and now just means 'good'. Money was so called because it was first minted at the temple Juno Moneta. The origin of 'the whole nine yards' seems unknown, even to an expert word website. Discussion Dead metaphors...

 We all use metaphors in our everyday lives. We use them to make a point, to make the language more alive or simply because some metaphors have become the correct word to describe something (also known as a dead metaphor. In the book “The Philosophy of Rhetoric” I.A. Richards describes the metaphor as consisting of two parts; the tenor (the subject) and the vehicle (the metaphor). When we say that somebody has “a heart of gold”, no one thinks that this is actually the case. But the phrase...

Darren Atwaroo 27/07/10 96738500 Reflections: Identifying your teaching metaphor I am a heart and my students are the blood that flows through me. As they pass knowledge is pushed through them. I am a fisherfolk and my students are the fish. I try to nourish them by providing bait of different types if they accept it knowledge is obtained. These are just some the metaphors my colleagues’ used to describe themselves in the classroom. Our assignment today was to best describe a...

Developing Imagery with Metaphors and Personification in The Kite Runner Sometimes an author will omit the word like or as when making a comparison. For example, in Chapter 4 Amir says, “Words were secret doorways and I held all the keys” (Hosseini 30). This kind of comparison is called a metaphor. An author can also create imagery through personification, or giving non-living object human characteristics. For example, Amir says, “Seconds plodded by, each separated from the next by an...

Changes can be defined as a process or transition and refers to the act or instance of being different. A study of change in Preliminary English has allowed for a greater understanding of the concept. Transitions or changes in our life can be both positive and negative. The prescribed text dougy by James Moloney and the song ‘Took the Children Away’ by Archie Rouch effectively explores the concept of change within the individual in society. The song ‘Took the Children Away’ by Aboriginal...

THE METAPHORIC DIMENSION OF ECONOMIC TEXTS The Translation of Economic Metaphors The paper aims at presenting the main types of the most commonly used English economic metaphors, focussing on the translation strategies that could be used for rendering them into Russian. Introduction. The problem of translation acquires a tremendous importance not only in fiction, but also in non-fictional texts, especially those are related to newly developed or upcoming areas of human activity, such as...

John Smith Mr. Brown AP Language and Composition 28 August 2010 To Kill a Mockingbird: Similes and Metaphors. 1. “Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.” (Lee 6) 2. “He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duck-fluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him.” (8) 3. “Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had...

Response to "Metaphors We Live By" by Lakoff and Johnson The primary subject of the text "Metaphors We Live By," by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson is that metaphors have been adapted into our daily lives and they have become a part of society. They have the ability to help us understand and comprehend what is being described to us. The bottom line is that "Our ordinary conceptual system is metaphorical in nature." (1) We have found ways to describe how we identify, think, and react. Even...

University of Phoenix Material Metaphors Worksheet Insert your name: Part 1 Metaphors Student Response Making Metaphors Example My daughter is the sunshine of my life. Student Response ONE The morning sun is my alarm clock. Student Response TWO My car became a NASCAR because I was late for work. Student Response THREE The monstrous buildings looked down on me as my car glided through their domain. Student Response FOUR I felt like I was in a coffin being buried in work....

Was it wrong that he sacrificed the truth and justice for his son’s only chance out of an otherwise dreary life like his?’ Anil is a boy who ‘believed in the magical wonders of life’. His ‘dreams were bigger than he was’ but he could never imagine how his departure from the ‘little village’ where he lived could be a result of his having a dark and terrifying secret. Explore 'Anil' in Wordbox Launch activity Click on the icon to launch the story in Wordbox. Related resources:...

The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor George Lakoff (c) Copyright George Lakoff, 1992 To Appear in Ortony, Andrew (ed.) Metaphor and Thought (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press. Do not go gentle into that good night. -Dylan Thomas Death is the mother of beauty . . . -Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning Introduction These famous lines by Thomas and Stevens are examples of what classical theorists, at least since Aristotle, have referred to as metaphor: instances of novel poetic language in...

Explain how Robert Frost uses inverted word order in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." What effect does Frost's word order have on the poem? Does it contribute to your understanding and/or enjoyment of the poem? Robert Frost’s inverted word order in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, gives me, as a reader, a childlike dream like feeling. He uses his repetition and imagery to make you feel as if you are in the woods with him in his head. The way he describes the bells on the horse...

 Abstract The present study is an attempt to investigate the translation of image in metaphors. In translation of metaphor, it is necessary to start with investigating the concept of metaphor. So the definition of metaphor and different kinds of metaphor are presented. Imagery is a key concept in metaphor that helps the reader to visualize and experience the author’s writing. Different type of imagery also presented. Then translation of metaphors ,including cognitive approach, is...

Australian visions can be the image of an Australian city or a view of a person. In Maestro, Peter Goldsworthy has used various features of narrative with effective affects to communicate Australian visions. One of the Australian visions that be shown through the use of narrative features in maestro is the vision of Darwin. Goldsworthy has used many descriptive adjectives to reveal Paul's vision of Darwin. On the first day that Paul's family arrived in Darwin, Paul shows his love of the city...

Comments on English Poetic Metaphors ABSTRACT The painters keep the scenery on the drawing board via pigment while the poets create the feeling of grace and depth via metaphors. Metaphor is a commonly-used figure of speech both in English and Chinese poems. With metaphor, poems become vivid, colourful, artistic and moving. The use of metaphors in English poems shows the nature and culture factors are quite influential in literature works. Nowadays, metaphor is more and more being...

Cecilia Velarde English 100 08/08/13 In “Metaphors We Live By” by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson ague about how we use metaphor on a day-to-day basis. A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is in some point of comparison. It is not something that we think about often, but metaphors are part of our everyday lives. What I found interesting while reading this article is that Metaphors We Live By gives us examples that demonstrate metaphors used in...

OUTLINE Metaphor, its definition and purpose Types of metaphor Dead Metaphors Cliché Stock Metaphors Adapted Metaphors Recend Metaphors Original Metaphors Methods of metaphor translation Producing same image in TL Replacing image with TL standard image Metaphor to simile translation Metaphor to simile translation along with its sense Metaphor to sense conversion Metaphor deletion Same metaphor with sense 1. THE METAPHOR AND ITS PURPOSE Metaphor can be defined as an indirect...

Disabled- Wilfred Owen wrote a variety of war poetry, these war poems were often illustrating to the audience, the dreadful truth about war. In his poem ‘disabled’ he explored a range of phrases that ensures the audience how war can/does ruin your life, briefly this poem is about a man (soldier) who decides to sign up for war and a year later he comes back “Disabled”- linking to the poems title. Now Wilfred is describing about what the man is feeling. In “disabled” Wilfred Owen examines the...

Similes, Metaphors & Anecdotes In their spoken language all three chefs use a variety of similes metaphors and anecdotes to describe the food that hey are cooking. The way that they describe the food reinforces their purpose, which is to entice the audience with their cooking. Jamie Oliver uses the simile: “Like a brand that’s just come out of nowhere.” Jamie compares his dishes to something that is popular, so that the audience can relate to, Jamie uses a simile so the audience...

It is important to have metaphors in poetry because the reader can then see what the poet means and feels. A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common. A metaphor helps the writer create a verbal picture that helps the reader to see ideas more clearly. It helps the writer convey his or feeling more strongly. Typically, a metaphor asserts that one thing is another or suggests that the one acts like the other in some way. In the poem, Swan Song, the...

Dionne Mok “The Metaphor” character sketch paragraph In the story “The Metaphor” By Budge Wilson, Miss Hancock can be described as overenthusiastic, eccentricity, liveliness and wacky. Miss Hancock is unmarried and a very beautiful women that is a wacky but a fun teacher. From the story when Miss Hancock hears Charlotte’s very descriptive and interesting metaphor about her mother and notice that she might have a problem with her mom. She asks Charlotte whether...

My own reading to "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", Mohamed Ibrahim Handling such a wonderful poem gives me a feeling of internal joy, the thing which pushed me to choose it from the poetry of Wordsworth. In my simple reading here I hope to present a comprehensive appreciation to this glorious piece of harmony with nature. I chose such poem because I think that it stands for a craftsmanship of a poet when he delineates perfectly his experience in a very well-created versicular language. The...

M E TA P H O R This page intentionally left blank METAPHOR A Practical Introduction Second Edition zoltán kövecses Exercises written with Réka Benczes Zsuzsanna Bokor Szilvia Csábi Orsolya Lazányi Eszter Nucz 1 2010 3 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi...

Barbara Johnson’s critique focuses on the metaphoric, metonymic and voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It focuses on the major character, Janie Crawford’s inner and outer change towards her various relationships. She focuses on the strengths, both vocally and physically, gained after her first slap down by her second husband, Joe Starks. Barbara Johnson focuses on the metaphoric meaning of this transformation which was defined as the substitution based on the...

Legal practitioners and commentators have shown a historical distrust of metaphor. English utilitarianist Jeremy Bentham portrayed legal fictions as ‘syphilis’ which runs along the veins of legal arguments, arguing that metaphors are not valid as a basis for reasoning in legal arguments. Justice Cardozo warned that while metaphor begins by liberating thoughts, they often end up by enslaving thoughts. Often a phobia of indeterminacy led to a confusion of the real with the literal, and...

Stevie Smith’s Metaphor of “Not Waving But Drowning” How is it possible to be surrounded by a million people yet feel so alone? In 1957, British poet Stevie Smith wrote a short poem, “Not Waving But Drowning,” composed of twelve lines broken up into three stanzas. The literal words of the poem leave the reader with the image of a distressed man, thrashing around in the sea as onlookers lying around on the beach watch but do not help, as they believe the frantic man is fooling around and waving...

How Metaphors Indicate the Speaker’s Feelings Marge Piercy’s “The Secretary Chant” In the poem “The Secretary Chant” Marge Piercy uses metaphors to create a solid image of how the speaker feels about being a secretary. The metaphors are used in a bold and expressive manner which allows the reader to identify with the speaker and envision her as a woman who feels that she has lost her since of identity as well as her womanhood while living vicariously through her job. Metaphors are used...

“Metaphors We Live By” As suggested by Lakoff and Johnson in Metaphors We Live By, “Concepts govern our everyday functioning, down to the mundane details” (Johnson, 1980). What I found interesting while reading this article is that Metaphors We Live By gives us examples that demonstrate metaphors used in everyday language. Lakoff and Johnson explained, our culture has significant influence on how we use metaphors; where we as Americans see arguing in terms of war, they want to get the high...

Harry Thurston’s “Miracle” is a simple and sweet poem, which displays the usage of an extended metaphor. As the speaker is in the process of explaining to his daughter as to why she should not pick the blossom and allow it to grow, he soon regrets telling her to stop. If Thurston meant to metaphorically convey this poem as the growth of his daughter, we can safely assume that the blossom mentioned in the second line of the poem that will “turn into a strawberry” (4), represents his daughter as a...

Contain Introduction 3 Chapter I. Characteristic features of Cognitive Metaphor and Slang 5 1.Feature Articles: Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language, Metaphors We Live By 5 2. Feature Articles: Magical Slang: Ritual, Language and Trench Slang of the Western front 6 Chapter II. Cognitive Metaphor and Slang 9 1. Lakoff & Johnson's Theory of Metaphor 9 2. What is slang? 12 3. Cognitive Metaphor in New English Slang 13 4. Examples of slang, it's characteristics and analysis 17 Conclusion 29...

“Metaphors We Live By” As Lakoff and Johnson suggest in their article Metaphors We Live By, “Metaphors not only make our thoughts more vivid and interesting, but they actually structure our perceptions and understanding”. What I find most interesting throughout the duration of this article is that Metaphors We Live By gives us a source of examples that demonstrate our use of various metaphors used in everyday language and thoughts. One of the topics that I thought was interesting was when...

Experimental Design to Assess Effects of Conceptual Metaphor-based Writing Teaching on Senior High School Students’ English Writing Ability Abstract English writing is difficult and also very important for Chinese EFL learners. As for senior high school students, it plays a vital part in the NMET paper (writing accounting for 40 marks with a total score 150 marks in Guangdong). However, the teaching and...

Tone and metaphors play a critical role in the poem, "A Litany in Time of Plague". The tone of the poem helps set up some of the metaphors, and the metaphors help to reinforce the tone. Throughout the poem, one can find readily find examples setting the tone and several distinguishable metaphors. In this poem the tone and metaphors complement one another very well and go hand in hand in making this poem dramatic and meaningful. The tone in, " A Litany in Time of Plague", is prayerful and...

Business English deals with specific lexis: acronyms, abbreviations; and other lexical features that has to be taken in consideration when reading, translating or comprehending texts and newspaper articles. The feature that we are focusing on in this paper is the use of metaphors and epithets in business related articles. The reason for this particular choice is quite simple, as basically a substantial part of all research in the field of Business English focused on the practical facet...

Analysis of Metaphor in an Area Outside of Literature Using a metaphor is an effective way of persuading others to understand one’s personal views, social beliefs, and displayed attitude. Metaphors make light of any given situation, having the ability to bring a conversation or story to life. Metaphors can bring attention to what we are accustomed to as well as describing some of the emotions in everyday life. Usually taking on meaning with what people feel and believe. There are an abundance...

Response to Lakoff and Johnson's book Metaphors We Live By It is really amazing when we come to some reality that changes the way we look at life. Funny how “look at life” is a metaphor that I wouldn’t have paid attention if I didn’t read the book, Metaphors We Live By. It’s weird. Weird to think about how unfeasible it is to live without using metaphors. I’m a yogi and a spiritual follower of life. I can’t help think of a better way relating this book to some of the stages of spiritual...

Politicians and Rhetoric The Persuasive Power of Metaphor Jonathan Charteris-Black Politicians and Rhetoric Also by Jonathan Charteris-Black CORPUS APPROACHES TO CRITICAL METAPHOR ANALYSIS Politicians and Rhetoric The Persuasive Power of Metaphor Jonathan Charteris-Black © Jonathan Charteris-Black 2005 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,...

Ministry of Education of the Republic of Moldova Institute of International Relations of the Republic of Moldova Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of English Philology COURSE PAPER “A contrastive Analysis of translating metaphors in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” Written by: 2nd year student, Group: 2LM2, Mihai Marina Scientific adviser: University Lecturer Sîngereanu T. Chisinau 2012 Contents: Introduction………………………………………………………………......…1 Chapter 1...

“Metaphors We Live By” More Than We Know In Lakoff and Johnson’s Metaphors We Live By, it is brought to light that metaphors are not only for the “poetic imagination.” Our language and culture are bound by numerous metaphors of which we pay no attention to in our daily language, thoughts, and actions. In this segment we learn of three metaphorical concepts and how they structure our lives and the way we perceive of things. I find it interesting that our everyday activities and language are...

METAPHOR AND DIALECTICS AS LITERARY DEVICES AND COMMUNICATIVE TOOLS By Odum, ikechukwu A. B.a, m.a, PGD (sc/antr), Mnipr Metaphor as a Literary Device The classical Greek philosopher, Aristotle declared metaphor one of the highest achievements of poetic style. According to him, “it is the mark of genius – for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances …” (Dukore 50). Our literary world especially, the African literary world is pervaded with metaphors. Metaphor has become an...

Metaphor for life There are an infinite number of ways for a person to describe their life. I think the best way is to use a metaphor. Many different metaphors can be used to explain an individual's world. Anything can be used as a comparison, from trees to furniture. My life would best be described as an everyday piece of furniture. This piece is unlike any other piece because of the things hidden inside. There are little cubby holes where objects of importance can be shoved away and...

13 November, 2011 Analysis of the Metaphor in the “Fisherman” poem by Kurt Brown Life is a fishing ocean. This reveals the activities of man on a daily basis, where man has to go in search of his daily bread and the obstacles that he encounters. Brown’s poem, “Fisherman,” illustrates the sad condition of man and life’s struggles through the metaphor of a fisherman. Reading the poem makes me observe how life is in this period of recession, where man’s ego is far seen but his contentment is...

 Chapter 1 Introduction A metaphor is a figure of speech that describe a subject by asserting that it is,on some point of comparison,the same as another otherwise unrelated object.Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory, hyperbole, and simile.(wikipedia,2012,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor) Metaphor is not only important in our life,but also...

Where are three metaphors in this poem? Two Ways of Seeing a River by Mark Twain What the first responder gave you are known as similes which are basically the same as metaphors (in the way that they compare two things) except they use like or as. Metaphors can be vague and open to interpretation. The river itself is clearly a metaphor, as to what it is a metaphor for is unclear to me. I believe that each reader will choose as to what this metaphor means for themselves (and I think...

Often in poems, we are confronted with metaphors. Simply, a figure of speech where one thing is described in terms of another (Jacobs, 30). Butt there are also times where the whole poem is a metaphor, when a large metaphor functions as the controlling image of a piece of work. Such is the case in Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken. The expressed content of the poem is simply that of the speaker, Frost himself, out on a walk one day in a wooded area. As he is out walking, he arrives at...

In his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” from the 1740’s, The American minister Jonathan Edwards, uses similes and metaphors to intimidate and manipulate the hearts of his puritan listeners. He uses a metaphor to dramatize human weakness. He states the human has as much chance of keeping out of hell " as a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock." Meaning that the sinners will be presumably going to hell if they don’t do something about it. Another metaphor reads, “ The wrath...

 Assignment 2 The significance of metaphors for our everyday communication referring to the example “football is war” Table of contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………....3 2. Definition of metaphor……………………………………………..3 3. Reasons for using metaphors…………………………………….3 4. Metaphorical concepts……………………………………………..4 4.1 Structural metaphors………………………………………...…4 4.2 Orientational metaphors……………………………………….5 4.3 Ontological...

Contrastive Analysis of the Conceptual Metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY in English and its Equivalent in Vietnamese Department of English Ho Chi Minh University of Education Instructor: Bui Nguyen Khanh Ho Chi Minh City, June 19th, 2013 1 I. ABSTRACT Since its introduction in 1980, the publication “Metaphors We Live By” by Mark Johnson and George Lackoff has successfully persuaded the readers to see all metaphors in a new light. The 1980 classic maintains that metaphorical...

He’s A Live Wire, Metaphor and Poetry The use of metaphor in poetry is one of the most important aspects of poetic style that must be mastered. Metaphor can be described as figure of speech in which a thing is referred to as being something that it resembles. From the perspectives of construction, poetic and cognitive function and working mechanism, where metaphor is constructed from human perceptual experience and is extended through imaginative processes. An important feature of...

"Metaphors We Live By" by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Our selection comprises chapters 1, 2, 3, and part of 4 of Metaphors We Live By (1980). CONCEPTS WE LIVE BY Metaphor is for most people device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish--a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along...

In her book, "The Author To Her Book", Anne Bradstreet conveys the deep and intricate demeanor of the author towards her work. Bradstreet uses a controlling metaphor of a child and its mother to describe all of these feelings towards one of her other pieces. To do this, she incorporates many figurative language devices within the controlling metaphor to help bring her point across to the minds of the readers. They include diction, imagery, and irony. In order to present the controlling metaphor...

Figurative language is used in poems, songs, books, short stories, and in everyday language. The use of similes and hyperboles are able to affect the tone, meaning and theme that better explain the meaning in stories and songs. Figurative language is meant to appeal to the senses in order to provide interest and evoke emotion in what is being read or heard. Alicia Keys, “This Girl Is On Fire”, is a great example of figurative language. The figurative language in this song provides a respectful...

1. An allusion occurs when an author makes a reference to a time, place, or character from another literary work. In Sinclair Lewis' "The Hack Driver" Lewis makes many references and comparisons. Specifically, he makes two allusions. The first allusion is to Heaven's gate and St. Peter. Lewis (1996) says of Bill, "When he gets to Heaven's gate he'll call St. Peter ‘Pete'" (P. 58). Lewis' second allusion is to the Amazon River while describing Lutkins' mother. His allusion is used to...

This book focuses on the ways which people understand figurative language. It is necessary to understand the meaning of metaphor or figurative speech means before testing our daily language for metaphors. The phenomena has many definitions. There is indirect comparison in figurative language. The word is not used as a comparison subject. Aristotle is very significant because he is known to be the first person to give a detailed definition fort he term metaphor. Aristotle defined this term as:...

Mr. Horsfall Yr 11 IB English Thomas Brelsford 11.5 ‘Discuss Owen’s use of visual and aural imagery in three of his poems’ Wilfred Owen was a famous anti-war poet from World War I. He wrote poems about his first-hand experiences during the war. Wilfred Owen uses personification, metaphors and similes, onomatopoeia, alliteration and assonance to increase the effectiveness of the messages he is trying to convey and to create a variety of...

For many years now people have judged one another based on characteristics and family background. Some judge based on skin color, race, where your family has come from, and how you came about. “Legal Alien/ Extranjera Legal” by Pat Mora gives a very realistic message of how it can feel to be a mexican american and to be seen as a ‘legal alien’. To feel not wanted by either side, and to be judged based on the origins of your ancestors and your race. “viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,/ perhaps...

Demonstrate how alienation is a key theme in both Migrant Hostel and Feliks Skrzynecki. Textual evidence must be used in your response. Belonging is an extremely complex and intangible concept based upon one’s perception of themselves and the world around them. Through reading and breaking down these two poems, Migrant Hostel and Feliks Skrzynecki by Peter Skrzynecki, it is recognised that they both reveal alienation in their contexts. Alienation is a key theme as both poems emphasis dominate...

What happens when a book known by heart is torn up and thrown in the air? What happened when a tribal story is lost in an alien tale? Craig Silvey and Judith Wright examine, explore and display such changes in their respective texts Jasper Jones and Bora Ring. The idea of change as a maturing yet calamitous and estranging force is conveyed onto the audience through demonstration of its dynamic effects. The skilful use of literary techniques—metaphors, similes and symbolism—allows the reader to...

The recurring theme of discovering beauty and wonder in mundane objects in Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”, “The Bight”, and “Sandpiper” is illustrated by the descriptions of the creature/ place she chose. Instead of assimilating to social conventions and adapting the view most people have, Bishop captures the unique beauty she sees from the minute details of life. In “The Fish”, Bishop used the metaphor of a warrior imagery to form visual images of the fish. It has evaded capture many times...

Running in the Family By Michael Ondaatje Language The language used in Running in the Family is descriptive and poetic. The variety forms of figurative languages (especially metaphors and similes), vivid imagery, and unusual sentence structure Ondaatje utilized elaborate the sentences making the novel Running in the Family sounds more of a poem than a novel. For instance, the description of Hetti Corea's voice is written as a poem using simile and imagery: "Your voice sounds like a scorpion...

Links to belonging 1. Belonging to social class o The persona initially feels disconnected to her social class and desires to belong to a more wealthy class. The metaphor of the window shows how social barriers often prevent this transition. Somehow, the persona overcomes these barriers and experiences the ‘curious wine’, only to find that instead of providing the belonging the persona sought, the new social class makes her feel isolated. o The ‘ample bread’ is positively harmful...

American poet Anne Bradstreet manipulates a vast, dizzying array of metaphoric techniques in her most widely known poem. “The Author to Her Book” is an extended metaphor comparing the relationship of an author and her writings to the relationship between a parent and a child. Throughout the text, Bradstreet employs similes and metaphors to capture the attitude emotions felt by Bradstreet and how it conflicts with the puritan society that frowns upon her appreciation of her talents and role as a...

The Grammardog Guide to Frankenstein by Mary Shelley All exercises use sentences from the novel. Includes over 250 multiple choice questions. About Grammardog Grammardog was founded in 2001 by Mary Jane McKinney, a high school English teacher and dedicated grammarian. She and other experienced English teachers in both high school and college regard grammar and style as the key to unlocking the essence of an author. Their philosophy, that grammar and literature are best understood...

What features or characteristics of the human condition can you identify in Judith Wright’s Legend? How has the poet used specific language techniques to emphasise these attributes of life. Judith Wright’s ‘Legend’ responds to various aspects of the human condition present in our society today. The poem is focused primarily on the actions of a Blacksmith’s boy, a vassal for humanity’s growth in response to age and change. In stanza one, Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers...

The Germanium' is a poem written in free verse by Theodore Reothke which explores the 'frail ' relationship between the persona and his wife, or lover who is personified as a ' geranium'. written in first person perspective,The poem shows the compulsive obsessive love the persona feels for this lady who has had a hard life and is now on death's bed through the usage of flower imagery and symbolism.Themes like loneliness, lost love and everyday experiences of mankind have been...

Metonymy Part 1 Comments and counter-suggestions on the following preliminary readings: Lakoff and Johnson 1980, Metaphors we live by Panther and Thornburg 2004, The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning construction Raden and Kovecses , Towards a Theory of metonymy Otono 2001, High level metonymy and linguistic structure Gibbs 1994, Figurative thought and figurative language Metonymy and synecdoche are ill-defined. Essentially, they are not defined at all. Instead of providing a...

We live to be perfect, however we contradict ourselves every step of the way. Inner conflict has nestled its way into all of us. It has the power to change us as people either for the better or the worse. Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, exhibits the growth and development of the eight characters through a series of narrated stories. Tan uses the art of storytelling to apprise the reader about the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers who came from China to San Francisco to raise their...

The Iron Coast is a travel writing written by Jane Gardam. Jane Gardam is a British author. She was born in Coatham, North Yorkshire. The writing describes the North Yorkshire coast and its landmarks including Roseberry Topping and Cleveland hills. Roseberry Topping is the name of a distinctive hill which was mentioned in the writing. The travel writing is descriptive as it creates effects and atmospheres for the reader. To achieve these effects the author uses a variety of literary techniques...

Passage one and Passage two are both about Florida's Okefenokee Swamp, however they both have contrasting points of view. The author of Passage one is writing about the swamp as it is overall- in a disconnected sort of way- which is drastically different from Passage two which takes the reader right inside the swamp and shows the struggle of life that exists there. Thus, the authors of Passage one and Passage two, accomplish this task by an informative tone and formal diction in Passage one,...

“And the language obscene / An engine, and engine / Chuffing me off like a Jew” (lines 30-32)This quote depicts the relationship that Plath had with her father. In Daddy, Plath depicts herself as a victim, as she compares herself to a Jew and her father as a Nazi. She uses this train metaphor to depict herself as a victimized Jew who is being taken away to a concentration camp. Plath uses allusions to describe her father as Hitler, as it is written “And your neat moustache / And your Aryan...

Football Hero ( The poem football hero by Kaith Laing effectively uses literary techniques to convey a sense of not belonging for the primary feature a boy named ken, through his use of colloquialism, jargon, repetition, dialogue, metaphor, similie and sensory description the audience is communicated a changing idea from one of a warm atmosphere to feelings of exclusion and sadness of not belonging to a football team. Through the authors use of colloquial language and jargon, the audience...

Metaphors &Analogies Power Tools for Teaching Any Subject Rick Wormeli Stenhouse Publishers Portland, Maine Metaphors & Analogies: Power Tools for Teaching Any Subject by Rick Wormeli. © 2009 Stenhouse Publishers. No reproduction without written permission from the publisher. Stenhouse Publishers www.stenhouse.com Copyright © 2009 by Rick Wormeli All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,...

Jenna Locascio Dr. Jonathan Dewberry English 102-(02) November 2014 “Dulce et Decorum Est” Metaphors and Similies The first of two similes is “bent double, like old beggars under sacks”. Here Owen is compairing the men in service to old beggars by the way they are walking. When Owen says “bent double”, it is telling you that the men are not standing up straight, but are bent over, as if they were beggers who are tired from begging all day. The next simile is “coughing like hags”, Owen...

Death Revealed In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" the main emphasis seems to be the acceptance of Death. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) gives reference to the theme by using "death" in the first line. The poem is unique and interesting because she presents Death in a different way by referring to it as an escort taking her on a journey towards eternity rather than making it seem like something frightening. Each stanza of the poem breaks down the journey through the...

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time Mark Haddon Chapter 2-31 1. What characters do we meet in the first chapters of the book? He is brave, calm and logical, just like an adult. But he is also curious, innocent and honest, just like a kid. 2. Why don’t the chapters have numbers from 1 to 10 etc. Because he would like to use prime numbers. 3. Page 1: Re-read the opening paragraph. Discuss the length of the sentences. How does the length...

Reality “Dulce et Decorum Est,” an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen, (conveys a strong meaning and persuasive argument. The anti-war theme and serious tone is extremely effective at portraying war as horrid and devastating. Upon my initial reading of this poem I felt overpowered by blood, guts and death. Although my reaction hasn’t changed much through numerous readings, my emotional reaction becomes more intense with each reading. This poem makes me feel like I am right there watching the soldier...

MASTER TROPES IN BEVERAGE ADVERTISMENTS ABSTRACT This paper investigates three master tropes (viz. simile, metaphor, and metonymy) in beverage ads. The purpose of the investigation is twofold: (i) to identify the advertisements about their ground, target and source. (ii) to analyze and compare the way they choose the tropes. After the investigation, we find out some conclude about the relationship between the three master tropes. 1. INTRODUCTION The language of...

Magical realism is a wondrous way to interpret the world through magic and reality. It gives readers a deeper understanding of the author’s voice and the text. It makes the readers see topics in a new light and way that they may have never thought of before; with magic. The reality section of magical realism may remind readers of a familiar place or situation, but the magical section- it is what really just makes the reality pop! Magical realism is a different way of thinking, comparing...

In The Beginning, There Was Language A dream is a hope, a wish, and an aspiration. Everyone has dreams about what they want to be when they grow up, how they want to live, whom they want to marry and how their life will turn out. However, not all dreams can come true right away. Many of them are just out of reach and can only be attained by hard work, leadership and determination. The poem "A Dream Deferred" by Langston Hughes is an example of just that, a dream that is just simply out of...

Figurative Language Definitions Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of a single letter in the alphabet (as in "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickle peppers.") or a combination of letters (as in "She sells seashells by the seashore."). It's just about the easiest form of repetition a poet can use. Metaphor A metaphor compares two unlike things. "My baby sister's a doll," you might say, compares your sister's size and sweetness to that of the perfection of a doll. At another time you...

I chose the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth because I like the imagery in it of dancingdaffodils. Upon closer examination, I realized that most of this imagery is created by the many metaphors and similes Wordsworth uses. In the first line, Wordsworth says "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This is a simile comparing the wondering of a man to a cloud drifting through the sky. I suppose the wandering cloud is lonely because there is nothing up there that high in the sky...

Lexical stylistic devices Metaphor. Sustained metaphor O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy. [William Blake “The sick rose” http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/the_sick_rose.html] novel metaphor: Time is jealous of you and wars against your lilies and your roses [Wilde O. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin books. 1994. P.30] Conventional metaphor...

Virginia Woolf the writer of “The Death of a Moth” and Alexander Petrunkevich the writer of “The Spider and the Wasp” have many differences and similarities in their writing. They both use great details in their stories but Woolf uses metaphors and similes for her main idea and Pertrunkevich uses explicit details to state his thesis. The main similarity that Woolf and Pertrunkevich share in there writing is the use of very vivid details. They both create a clear mental picture in the readers...

We can also deal with language in Much Ado About Nothing by looking at the techniques Shakespeare used. Some of these techniques (and names) might seem difficult at first. If that is the case, just think about what the play would sound like if the technique was not used. For instance, when Claudio is rejecting Hero at the church, imagine he says to Leonato: "Take this woman back" Well, yes, it is easy to understand, but it is not unusual or interesting. And it does not show how bitter Claudio...