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Metaphor/Simile

Metaphor/Simile. Simile. “like” or “as” Her hair, golden as the sun, cascaded…. Metaphor. met·a·phor    [met-uh-fawr, -fer] Show IPA

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Metaphor/Simile

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  1. Metaphor/Simile

  2. Simile • “like” or “as” • Her hair, golden as the sun, cascaded…

  3. Metaphor • met·a·phor •    [met-uh-fawr, -fer] Show IPA • noun 1. a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”

  4. The Beatrice Letters, "The day was as cold and bitter as hot chocolate as if it had been put in a fridge for several hours and filled with vinegar.“ • “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” …William Butler Yeats

  5. “ Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” …Samuel Butler, English Poet • “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”…Anonymous • “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” … Saint Augustine

  6. Obvious Visual Reference

  7. Time

  8. “My Life”

  9. “Society Cake”

  10. My first day of high school--sad and friendless, a young, flightless bird in the middle of a desert.

  11. Can a person be a metaphor?

  12. You will create a visual metaphor for yourself (medium: collage). The challenge is to create a meaningful work that makes your viewers think!

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