Choosing A Metaphor Analysis

Twenty-two year old singer/songwriter Dodie Clark has become internet-famous with her cheerful jingles and poetic introspection. With over a million subscribers, her youtube channel- affectionately named “doddleoddle”- draws in countless individuals to bear witness to her hours of musical content. Dodie is known, in fact, for her ability to write lyrics which are poetry first and music second. Clark, in her 2016 song “When,” employs metaphor to invoke imagery, euphemism, and indirect self-addressment in an effort to articulate her plea that she finally begin to take initiative and live her life

When people talk to each other, they make widespread use of metaphor. In talk, metaphor is a shifting, dynamic phenomenon that spreads, connects, and disconnects with other thoughts and other speakers, starts and restarts, flows through talk developing, extending, and changing. Metaphor in talk both shapes the ongoing talk and is shaped by it. The creativity of metaphor in talk appears less in the novelty of connected domains and more in the use of metaphor to shape a discourse event and the adaptation of metaphor in the flow of talk. People use metaphor to think with, to explain themselves to others, to organize their talk, and their choice of metaphor often reveals- not only their conceptualizations- but also, and perhaps

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

Budge Wilson’s, The Metaphor, is a bildungsroman that blueprints Charlotte’s transition from a young, moldable girl into an independent woman through juxtaposition, allegory, and symbolism. Charlotte is an awkward seventh grader, who transforms into a well-round tenth grader before the eyes of the reader due to the influence of her teacher, Miss. Hancock. Her mother, calculated and emotionless, is the foil to Miss. Hancock’s wild, unorganized spirit. Charlotte finds herself drawn to Miss. Hancock, who her mother despises, which causes Charlotte internal strife. She pushes down her feelings, but through a traumatic experience, she discovers Miss. Hancock’s lessons are the ones her heart wants to live by, not her mother’s. Miss. Hancock and

Throughout the book, Ordinary People, Dr. Berger used many unorthodox methods of therapy to help Conrad. Dr. Berger was able to make Conrad feel comfortable being himself. He used methods that would work for his situation. He also shows the use of psychodynamic psychotherapy, were the problems lays under the surface and usually the client. Berger also used many metaphors about how Conrad was feeling and doing to hide his emotions.

Metaphor: A metaphor can enhance and paint a more interesting and a more (vivid?) picture of what your are trying to explain. It easily conveys a message. For example if you say “It was Scary” the reader will not know how scary but if you say “I was so scared I felt like a mouse before a great

The artifact I brought is a photograph of my sister and I at the Taquitz Falls, in Palm Springs California. This picture represents a successful hike that brought many tribulations my mom, sister Kailli, and I had to overcome during our adventure into the blazing desert.

In Brave New world, Aldous Huxley portrays a dystopian society that has lost all values and morals of today's civilization. There is also the social change occurring in the form of people beginning to talk more openly about subjects that have previously been kept behind closed doors. All of these political and social issues are shown by using imagery, metaphors, and symbolism to express Huxley’s tone toward how present-day society will become at the rate of the social and political change currently taking place in the world.

Writing my research philosophy and paper about writing spaces and rituals reflect Laurel Richardson’s words, in WRITING, A Method of Inquiry, “ None of us knows his or her final destination, but all of us can know about the shape and makers of our lives, that we can chose to confront, embrace, or ignore” (p. 967). When I began the writing journey I wasn’t quite sure where I was going, but through assemblage, I was able to produce some type of order.

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is done by using words that would normally describe one thing, and apply to describe another. One can normally find metaphors in songs and poems as well as other instances where artistic writing might be suggested. In Silvia Path's short poem Metaphors she uses metaphorical language to describe what it feels like to be pregnant. Path describes herself as one big riddle, she proceeds to describe how she feels about her pregnancy with the use of numerous metaphors, she successfully paints a very distinct picture in the readers imagination on what she might of looked like while being pregnant. "One view is that metaphors make comparisons, the basis for the comparison being the features (or

The passage explains the thought process throughout an interrogation of the person that is suspected of in the situation; then it goes on to explain the entire act of interrogation as a whole with the interrogator and suspect. Throughout the passage the author uses multiple extended metaphors to express the thought process of suspect in an interrogation room. In the passage it states, “More to the point, they like to imagine their suspects imagining a small, open window at the top of the long wall. The open window is the escape hatch, the Out.” The author uses the window to symbolize a suspect trying to find an escape route that tends to be filled with lies to get out of any type of punishment of the crime. This is directed to those that lack knowledge on the subject of things in relation to interrogations; although, the audience can be generally anyone because the passage is made to widely understood by most people.

Sometimes excavations not only make the past clearer, but also helps brighten up the present.

In reality how can a monster come a metaphor? There is so many way that this could happen. We face fear in our lives and that is one great way that a monster help become a metaphor. We never know what we can overcome if we are not willing to try.

Edgar is telling us it was at midnight and as he was trying to sleep there was a knock at his door. Also when he says “ ‘Tis some visitor” and by that he means he was asking if someone was there. Then when he says “tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and nothing more” It is saying that someone or something is knocking, but no

Many metaphors are used in different songs so the artist can describe how their feeling or how two different people are alike. As Selena Gomez states in this song, “You are thunder and I am the lighting.” , is a metaphor explaining two people that are different but have something in common. Most artists include at least one metaphor in their songs, to describe two different kinds of people or things without exactly telling them who those two people are and what they do. So “ You are the thunder and i am the lighting”, she is referring to the one she loves and stating that they work together, as thunder and lighting are not the same but have something in common.