METAPHOR

By: Ma. Belén Carrillo

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Metaphor is an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else which is the same in a particular way.

For example, if you want to say that someone is very shy and frightened of things, you might say that they are a mouse.

METAPHORS

COMPARISONS

SHOW HOW 2 THINGS

ARE SIMILAR IN ONE

IMPORTANT WAY

AUTHORS USE THEM TO

MAKE WRITING MORE

INTERESTINGSTATE THAT SOMETHING IS

SOMETHING ELSE.

1.A dead metaphor is one in which the sense of the transferred image is absent.

2. An extended metaphor (conceit), establishes a principal subject (comparison) and subsidiary subjects (comparisons). The As You Like It quotation is a good example-

3.A mixed metaphor is one that leaps from one identification to a second identification inconsistent with the first.

EXAMPLEAll the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; — William Shakespeare, As You Like It,

In this metaphoric example, "the world" is compared to a stage, describing it with the attributes of “the stage”.

Romeo compares Juliet to the sun (Act I Scene II)

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

Prince of the Weders",

"The Son of Ecgtheow",

"The Geatish hero",

"The Lord of the Seamen".

These metaphors describe a character to us in a more interesting way than just stating the hard facts. Without them it would be less interesting and we would learn less about him.