Explain The Terms Metaphor And Metonymy

Written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in 1887, Casey at Bat is a narrative American poem and story, telling of a baseball’s game’s final half-inning between the home team Mudville, and another team. The poem has a main character named Mighty Casey, the team’s star hitter. Ultimately, Casey loses the game for his Mudville team at the end of the poem because he strikes out. Casey at the Bat’s theme is baseball with its tone being both exciting and suspenseful. Its tone also begins calmly, getting eager towards the middle, and then disappointing at the end. The purpose of this paper is to identify three figurative languages used throughout the poem. The three figurative languages that will be defined is metaphor, personification, and hyperbole.

In the story Stop The Sun figurative language is used in this story. First, “It burned into terry’s mind, the picture of his father down on the floor.” When the reader reads this helps them to imagine how tary was feeling by using figurative language to express those feelings. Secondly, Stop The sun states “Terry felt his brain swirl.” Using a type of figurative language called a metaphor, using this the author tried to make the

When the term “metaphor” is used, one solely thinks of the typical definition; a figure of speech that compares two objects without using the words like or as. However, in Sonia Nazario’s literary work, Enrique’s Journey, word “metaphor” is transformed entirely into a profound and heart wrenching meaning. Throughout this novel the main character, Enrique, stands as a metaphor and a worldwide symbol to show the ongoing problems in the world regarding abandonment, immigration, and drug cartels. Abandoned children long to find their place in the world, and as they try to overcome the barriers they are faced with such as confusion as a result of a failure to be noticed.

“The Metaphor,” by Budge Wilson tells the story of a shy and embarrassed middle-schooler, turned beautiful and confident high-schooler. As Charlotte reflects on her time as an adolescent, she remembers one of her favorite English teacher who was tragically killed. Miss Hancock inspired Charlotte in more ways than one, which is why it is understandable that she felt a great deal of guilt after she was killed. Although the story does not clarify, it is quite clear that Miss Hancock’s death was not a coincidence. The school bus that takes her life was symbolic of her failures as a teacher, which affected her deeply towards the end of her life. In Miss Hancock’s case, it was what she loved the most that ended up taking the most from her.

Charlotte, a teenager making her way through high school, undergoes a coming of age transformation through the teachings of her Mrs. Hancock and her mother in “The Metaphor” by Budge Wilson. As with most stories like these, Charlotte has a major conflict that determines how she will grow up. For the protagonist, the conflict is not so much between her teacher and mother, but more so the lessons they bestow upon Charlotte. Through her use of literary techniques, the author is able to craft this dynamic between the two schools of thought. The symbolism, diction, tone and metaphors that Wilson uses shows which discipline, flamboyant and exciting or controlling and passive-aggressive, she chooses to live by.

Fourth, students must realize how much metaphors are used in the english language. Not only are metaphors used so commonly, they also greatly influence the way we think about things. All subjects are based on metaphors. Education is currently seen as a business with the students as the clients. Language is a tree with deep roots. Metaphors are a cornerstone to how we grasp concepts and understand the knowledge we have. We really only know things in relation to other things, often by a metaphor

Formative and summative assessments over the past two years indicate that metaphor was routinely the figurative language technique that student most struggled to grasp conceptually when it was presented to them in the traditional sixth-grade poetry cannon, but introducing The Crossover at the end of last year caused a significant shift in this area. Alexander introduces students to the concept of metaphor through conversation between father and son. “The court is my kitchen,” Josh’s dad tells him when Josh tries to dissuade his father from taking a coaching job due to his dad’s declining health, “Son, I miss being the top chef (Alexander, 166, 167).” Here, Alexander not only illustrates the correct use of metaphor, but also highlights the power of continuing figurative language to a logical end point. The original metaphor simply compares the court to a kitchen in the eyes of the father, but the continuation with the father comparing himself to the top chef in the kitchen both crystallizes the metaphor as a kitchen in a restaurant rather than a house. This also completes the meaning of the metaphor by demonstrating the father’s desire to once again be the best. Here again, the metaphors used by Alexander are relatable and powerful, which allowed students to gain a firmer grasp of the

Of the countless examples of figurative language in Night I have decided to perform my in-depth analysis of the following three examples dispersed throughout the book.

Lakoff and Johnson state, “[w]e have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action” (3). They are saying that metaphors are used all the time and not just when people talk, but when they think and in what they do. This is exactly true because after learning about metaphors, and getting a better understanding of them, I have realized how much I, and others, apply them to everyday life without even realizing it, or trying to. Using a metaphor to describe Haas and Flower’s reading concepts will therefore make for a better grasp of what the concepts mean.

Frye begins by exploring the relation of language and literature. “What is the relation of English as the mother tongue to English as a literature?” he asks (p. 16), and before he can give an answer, he has to explain why people use words. He identifies three different uses of language, which he also terms types or levels of language.

When I look up the meaning of metaphors in Webster it says "a figure of speech in which a work for one idea or thing is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them." The Hours by Michael Cunningham is enriched with many complex metaphors. While intertwining three different woman's lives, Cunningham uses a wide range of metaphors to help mean something in one story and tie into the next woman's story. Using deconstructive interpretation to investigate these strategically placed metaphors can be difficult and exciting, yet challenging.

However, it is the emotional detail behind their fantastic surfaces that makes them memorable. The story is the 15 girls, raised by wolves, who are taken away from their parents and re-educated by nuns to enter civilized society. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the children. These were girls raised in captivity, volunteers from St. Lucy’s School for Girls. They had long golden braids or short, severe bobs. They had frilly-duvet names like Felicity and Beulah, and pert, bunny noses, and terrified smiles. It had six weeks of lesson. The nuns decided we needed an inducement to dance. They announced that we would celebrate our successful rehabilitates with a Debutante Ball.(Karen, p. 237) The students who start living in a new environments. They may feel that their own lifestyle are far superior to those of the host country. A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two. And to make the description more powerful, especially at the beginning of words or stressed

Metaphor/Personification- A metaphor is when a word or phrase is applied to an object or action that is not actually applicable. Personification is a form of a metaphor in which non-human things are given human characteristics. The metaphor and personification of an alarm clock in the story helps to represent our happiness through the use of a car and car keys. The writer writes “Tell me the alarm clock stole the keys to your smile, drove it into 7:00 AM and the crash totaled your happiness”.

This information allows for potential hypotheses to be brain stormed, tested, and transformed into theses. Further research is required to find out exactly how many metaphors there are in the text, whether the similes are part of the dialogue or the narration, and if other chapters in the novel follow this trend. While Voyant allows researchers to view word counts and word frequency, this data can only be used to find key words in the text. Voyant cannot analyse the context words are used in, separate homonyms, or combine synonyms. Although the word cloud is a useful way to represent the data, it is less specific than graphs or tables and there is no way to overlap graphs to compare words directly. For this paper Voyant’s data from various graphs was exported into an Excel spread sheet in order to compare the three sections

Shakespeare’s work is among the hardest to read because of its supposed complexity and sophistication. The language used in the Early Modern Era is different than that of the Post Modern Era. Audiences that saw the performances were aural learners and were able to pinpoint certain tones and facial expressions that readers may not detect through words. Watching the plays performed provided better feedback than readings do (Palfrey 10-11). Metaphors, implicit or explicit, are figures of speech that help compare two unlike things and are not designed for literal intake. Yet, with Shakespeare’s work, metaphors should be taken literally. According to George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, however, this technique of comparison allows metaphors to simultaneously highlight and hide certain attributes and/or qualities about the thing(s) being compared to (12-13). The highlighting and hiding of metaphors gives readers more insight into what Shakespeare may have meant at the time or even more so in what context did the people of the Elizabethan Age use language (Palfrey 11). Two important components of metaphors that do the highlighting and hiding are the vehicle and the tenor; each can be implicit or explicit as well. The metaphor in question emphasizes both the importance and unimportance of Lavinia’s character.