How To Write A Metaphor

Taking a closer look to: Ten Ways to Think about Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students by the author Reid, E. Shelley.

Budge Wilson’s, The Metaphor, is a bildungsroman that blueprints Charlotte’s transition from a young, moldable girl into an independent woman through juxtaposition, allegory, and symbolism. Charlotte is an awkward seventh grader, who transforms into a well-round tenth grader before the eyes of the reader due to the influence of her teacher, Miss. Hancock. Her mother, calculated and emotionless, is the foil to Miss. Hancock’s wild, unorganized spirit. Charlotte finds herself drawn to Miss. Hancock, who her mother despises, which causes Charlotte internal strife. She pushes down her feelings, but through a traumatic experience, she discovers Miss. Hancock’s lessons are the ones her heart wants to live by, not her mother’s. Miss. Hancock and

The wolf is a very fearful and cunning animal large in size and very determined to get what he wants no matter how much damage he

Twenty-two year old singer/songwriter Dodie Clark has become internet-famous with her cheerful jingles and poetic introspection. With over a million subscribers, her youtube channel- affectionately named “doddleoddle”- draws in countless individuals to bear witness to her hours of musical content. Dodie is known, in fact, for her ability to write lyrics which are poetry first and music second. Clark, in her 2016 song “When,” employs metaphor to invoke imagery, euphemism, and indirect self-addressment in an effort to articulate her plea that she finally begin to take initiative and live her life

There are many different style to write in. Along with the different style there are also different perspectives. First, second, and third person are the types most people think about. The reality is that there are many more types out there. When a person writes it is hard for them to be able to stop thinking of what they were told when growing up. In the article Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Student by E. Shelley Reid, it is said that while rules are important in writing the rules can cause more of a problem then a guideline. Instead focus on writing in a way the completely describe what is trying to be said. The details in the story are what need to be focused on. The more detail that are used the

How are metaphors used to convey a point during an argument? The use of metaphors by the politicians was used not only to emphasise points, but also to derogatively refer to their fellow candidates, as Wright, representing the Conservative Party, followed up after Ballantyne’s point by saying how “no-one’s ever accused me before of being in green fairy land”, which is a very informal, and somewhat unprofessional way of saying ‘I rarely agree with the Green Party, but...’, which again, apply comedy to the situation and appeals more to the target audience, but as the colour green can be both connoted with the land, with the semantic field of grass, but also represent the party candidate Ballantyne through the Green Party he represents; along

In May 2015, Walt Disney Pictures released the film Inside Out. The film emphasizes the neuropsychological finding that human emotions affect interpersonal relationships. It shows how emotions work inside a person’s brain and at the same time how these emotions shape a person’s outer life (Keltner & Ekman, 2015). In this film, each character is represented by a colour With is conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980) can be applied. As this representation works with the theory of conceptual metaphors. ‘Conceptual metaphors are metaphors that we have in our mind that allow us to produce and understand abstract concepts’ (Littlemore, 2008). The five main human emotions that are represented as characters inside an 11-year-old girl brain are: Joy represented as a glowing yellow; Anger as red; Disgust as green; and Fear as purple. The film was released all over the world, gaining positive reviews from many different cultures. With these positive reviews, the question is asked are colours-emotion metaphors universal? The purpose of this study is to test whether the cultural experiences of individuals result in different mental representations of colour-emotion metaphors. The colours black, white, red, yellow, and blue were looked at because they are primary colours and have more colour-emotion metaphors associated with them.

This article discusses that culture is a key concept for the explanation of how conceptual metaphors emerge from our knowledge structures, and to explore how the metaphorical process works, between language, and between cultures in multiple facets. Metaphors realize an aesthetic transposition of the world inherent to the human race but specific to each culture.

This verbal-visual collage tries to show the destruction and violence present in the poem in contrast with the gentle yet mysterious section of the poem. I saw the clear difference between the two since the first section of the poem mentions “armies with trumpets” as well as “Zeppelins, helicopters, rockets, and bombs”. I then contrasted this part of the poem with the more mysterious and soft side of the poem that was defined with quotes like “lost in the clouds” and “I am standing staring at the top”.

The figurative language school age children are able to use are similes, metaphors, hyperboles, idioms, irony and proverbs. A metaphor example can be a saying like, he is the apple of my eye. An example of a simile can be, free as a bird, where a comparison is being made with the use of like or as. Hyperboles are exaggerations for an effect or emphasis. An example of this is saying she is as thin as a toothpick. Idioms are expression that contain figurative and literal meaning, so is like saying high as a kite. Irony and also sarcasm are where a speaker’s intentions differ from the literal meaning of the word that was used. These two are different, so an example of irony is a person who is a traffic cop, and gets his license suspended because

Common sense seems to dictate that metaphors are common tools used in everyday life to enhance our reading, writing and language. In addition to metaphors enhancing our reading, writing and language, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson imply in their book, Metaphors We Live By, that metaphors do more than those three things, that they also make up our conceptual system. In Lakoff and Johnson’s view, “Our ordinary conceptual system…is fundamentally metaphorical in nature…[and] is not something we are normally aware of” (3). In other words, the way we act and think is metaphorical and we don’t know even know it. Furthermore, Lakoff and Johnson go into detail on why metaphors are important by suggesting, “Our concepts structure what we perceive, how one gets around in the world, and how one can relate to other people” (3). Their point is that if our concepts, structure our everyday life and our conceptual system is metaphorical than what we do each day is, “… a matter of metaphor” (3). With this better understanding of how metaphors are used daily without us realizing it, we can see more clearly where metaphors can be used, therefore one can also analyze how they relate to our everyday lives. The metaphors I chose to analyze and contrast that we’ve done in our lives are academic reading is learning how to tie your shoes and fun reading is a rollercoaster.

Dictionary of literary terms defines a metaphor as “a figure of speech which makes implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristic.” To put it differently, a metaphor connects two very unlike objects with a common characteristic. However, why should poets or writers, for that matter, even use metaphors within their works? Simple, metaphors allow the writer room for creativity. At times, human beings do tend to be very direct in their statements. In other occasion, human beings tape into their imagination to describe something. For example, one might state “it is raining cats and dogs.” It is not literally raining cats and dogs. However, the metaphor helps describe heavy rain

I have a high level of appreciation for writers that can use metaphors the way you do. It makes the reading more enjoyable. I believe it is healthy to challenge the established when one has powerful and convincing arguments to support those new ideas. If we all agree on the same things, we would not be able to make debates and find solutions from different perspectives. I too struggle with the MLA formatting and it something I will have to keep working at.

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

Metaphors are a part of speech in which an object or idea is used represent something else. They can be found through poems, musical lyrics, ads, comics, and religious text. They are important because they help us describe or discuss abstract things. According to a past core lecture, the way they work is “one concept structures how we think about some other”. However, metaphors are looked into more deeply other than just “ordinary language”.