“Comin’ Thro’ the Rye”by The Real McKenzies

Like, What Does That Mean?

The Use of Metaphors and SimileIn Literature

met·a·phor (mět'ə-fôr', -fər)   n.1. A figure of speech in which a word or

phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison

What is a Metaphor ?

2.One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol

He has the heart of a lion

Some Metaphors…

Rolling in dough

It’s raining cats and dogs

Kicked the bucket

She has the voice of an angel

sim·i·le (sĭm'ə-lē)   n.

What is a simile?

A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like  or as

An Example of Simile…

Metaphor and Simile…

Metaphor and Simile…

What were some metaphors from the previous clips?

Metaphor and Simile

What were the similes?

Extended Metaphor

Types of Metaphors…

When one metaphor just won’t do. It is one metaphor with an extension of an added metaphor.

Example:“All of the world’s a stage/and all the men and women are merely players.”

- As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Extended Metaphor

Types of Metaphors…

1. All the world’s a

2. …men and women are merely

stage…

players

Dead Metaphor

Types of Metaphors…

A type of metaphor that has been literally used to death. It has lost its original literal meaning and is now considered a cliché.

Examples: Plowing through traffic

Falling in love

Making money hand over fist

Dead Metaphor

Types of Metaphors…

Synecdoche Metaphor

Types of Metaphors

A metaphor that uses part of a whole thing to describe the whole thing OR a whole thing to describe part of that thing

SOUND CONFUSING????

Allow me to explain through…

All hands on deck…

EXAMPLES!!!!!

The hands represent the men who own them.

Twenty sails came into the harbor…The “twenty sails” represents boats.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws From T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred

Prufrock”, the claws represent the whole crab.

Simple Metaphor

Types of Metaphor…

A metaphor with a single link between the subject and its metaphoric vehicle (the image, word, or phrase that represents the idea of the metaphor).

Holdenspeak: “That killed me.”

“That knocked me out.”

“What a deal that was.”

“It's no fun to be yellow. Maybe I'm not all yellow. I don't know.”

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