Metaphors

How to form a Metaphor

1. Choose character, a thing, or a place 2. Try and describe your place, character, or thing 3. Think of something that shares certain traits with it 4. Emphasize it by using more than one word to describe it

How to find a Metaphor

1. Make sure it compares something in the sentence 2. The comparison could be abstract or something non-abstract 3. Doesn't use like or as

extended metaphor

A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem. Ex."The boss snatched at her report, devoured it as quickly as possible, and then looking around for more prey, darted across the aisle to her co-workers desk.

metonymy

A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. Ex."The pen is mightier than the sword" Pen stand for thought while sword stands for violence.

Contrast

The state of being noticeably different from something else when put or considered together.

mixed metaphor

a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect Ex."There is no man so low that he has in him no spark of manhood, which, if watered by the milk of human kindness, will not burst ino flames."

Synecdoche

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. Ex."All hands on deck" Stands as a demand for the crew to help, yet 'hands' stands for the whole crew.

Metaphor

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

dead metaphor

a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid Ex."The snow was a white blanket"

Comparison

a statement of the similarities among two or more people, events, ideas, etc.

implied metaphor

does not state explicitly the two terms of the comparison Ex."Without a string the moon drifts across the sky"

Types of metaphors

synecdoche, metonymy, archetypal, mixed, extended, implied, and dead

archetypal metaphor

uses common human experiences to describe another object