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Metaphor and Metonymy

Metaphor and Metonymy. A conversation: Your friend comes in out of the rain. “Well, you’re a pretty sight! Got slightly wet, didn’t you?” “Wet, I’m drowned! It’s raining cats and dogs, and my raincoat’s like a sieve!” What’s literally true in these statements? What’s “figurative.”.

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Metaphor and Metonymy

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  1. Metaphor and Metonymy

  2. A conversation: Your friend comes in out of the rain. • “Well, you’re a pretty sight! Got slightly wet, didn’t you?” • “Wet, I’m drowned! It’s raining cats and dogs, and my raincoat’s like a sieve!” • What’s literally true in these statements? What’s “figurative.”

  3. Figure of Speech • Any way of saying something other than in the ordinary way. • Figurative language -- Language that cannot be taken literally. • Give me a list of clichés that employ figurative language.

  4. Metaphor and Simile • Both compare things that are essentially unlike. • Metaphor implies the comparison • (My love is a rose.) • Simile expresses the comparison by the use of some word or phrase-- like, as, than, similar to, resembles, seems. • (My love is like a rose.)

  5. The Guitarist Tunes UpFrancis Cornford • With what attentive courtesy he bent • Over his instrument; • Not as a lordly conqueror who could • Command both wire and wood, • But as a man with a loved woman might, • Inquiring with delight • What slight essential things she had to say • Before they started, he and she, to play.

  6. MetaphorsSylvia Plath • 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.

  7. Metonomy and Synecdoche • Metonomy establishes a connection based on association. • “The Pen is mightier than the sword.” • “In the sweat of thy face, thou shalt eat bread.” • Synecdoche -- A part standing for a whole. • “The crown lead the attack.” • “The hands finished the haying.”

  8. Metonomy/Synecdoche • A Hummingbird -- Dickenson • A route of evanescence • With a revolving wheel; • A resonance of emerald, • A rush of cochineal; • And every blossom on the bush • Adjusts its tumbled head, -- • The mail from Tunis, probably, • An easy morning’s ride.

  9. Huswifery, Taylor, 643 • What type of figurative langauge is he using here? • What three metaphors does he develop?

  10. Valediction, Forbidding Mourning, Donne, 623 • Vocabulary: valediction, mourning, profanation, laity, trepidation, innocent, sublunary, elemented? • Find 3 similies and one metaphor in the poem? • Is the speaker dying? Or merely going on a journey? • How would you describe the language in this poem?

  11. Prufrock, Eliot, p. 729 • Find two similies • Find an extended metaphor • Find an example of synecdoche

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