Metaphors
Metaphor - (Greek) meaning to carry over
- A direct comparison between two subjects
- It is for clarity, description and to exaggerate
It is a figurative language (uses rhetorical devices to illustrate a point) and is opposite of literal language, metaphor is an umbrella term for others.
Examples:
- A direct comparison between two subjects
- It is for clarity, description and to exaggerate
It is a figurative language (uses rhetorical devices to illustrate a point) and is opposite of literal language, metaphor is an umbrella term for others.
Examples:
- Mytonym & Synocdoche - means what something stands for. Use something to stand for the whole. E.g. "The bow plough the deep". 'Plough' is the metaphor and 'deep' is a metonym of the ocean.
- Allegory - A story/text which has two or more layers of meaning (Religion, morals, political etc.) Mainly in fairy tales.
- Catachresis - mix up of metaphor accidentally or on purpose.
- Simile - To compare something 'as' or 'like' to something else.
- Pun - A play on words.
- A metaphor is a comparison
- It clarifies ideas or entertaining adds to an image
- To make some things beautiful and adds to the image that bis already there
- Creative metaphors are valued in literature
- Finding something new or unusual is highly valued
- Ambiguity adds to the text (mainly different connotations)
- Metaphors intrigue us as it is more encrypted
- How figurative language looks at meaning
Symbols
Symbols - Suggest often either repeated part of a bigger suggestion
It stands or represents something.
It stands or represents something.