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Metaphors

Metaphors. A statement that compares two seemingly unlike things. Saying one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense it is not. Example: Her house is a prison Your fingers are sausages Books are life

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Metaphors

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  1. Metaphors • A statement that compares two seemingly unlike things. Saying one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense it is not. Example: Her house is a prison Your fingers are sausages Books are life Implied metaphor – a metaphor that doesn’t contain a connective or the verb to be. Example: I placed my love in a long stem vase.

  2. Simile • Add like or as to a metaphor and you have a simile. • How does adding like or as change the statement?

  3. Sylvia Plath (1960) Metaphors I’m a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. Money’s new minted in this fat purse. I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples, Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

  4. William Blake (1803) To see a world in a grain of sand And heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.

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