Otis Metaphors

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

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

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.

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.

The muscles’ jabbering like chickens is again a beautiful example of symbolism-cum-metaphor. Ward writes, “…her skin was dark as the reaching oak trees” (22), and “…until his legs turn to noodles and he is sliding down Randall like a pole” (43), which are beautiful expressions of her crafting of symbolism, metaphors, and similes in her novel. So, we see that metaphorical language can be found more often throughout

“Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space” (Oscar Scott Card). The puritan poets Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor write of their lives and of God and where these two things intertwine. God, however, is an enticing mystery that these poets attempt to understand, and in their exploration, they use the metaphorical reasoning to explain what they’ve discovered. Bradstreet and Edward Taylor implement metaphors to create the greatest understanding in the smallest space by using common complexities to describe uncommon intricacies.

Using figurative language in writing provides a creative, personal way to write with meaning. For example: Wiesel writes about a terrifying experience when traveling in a car with hundreds of moaning people, scribing about the “death rattle of an entire convoy with the end approaching” (Wiesel 103). While readers cannot hear the screams of such people, and may have no understanding of what a “death rattle” (Wiesel 103) is, it is quite possible to envision how horrifying of a sound those screams are, and how consternating of an experience it is for Wiesel. Figurative language allows authors to contour their words so that they may more clearly elucidate their ideas to their readers. In the citation formerly presented, Wiesel uses imagery to illustrate what he hears.

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.

Linda Pastan’s poem, To a Daughter Leaving Home, is represented as a metaphor because it’s comparing the bike ride to the relationship between the mother and daughter. The author describes the mother going along side her eight year old daughter as she rides her bicycle (Pastan 915). The daughter “wobbled away” (Pastan 915). This happens to be an example of imagery because it gives a visual description of how the daughter was riding her bike. As she rides the bike further along, the mother gets surprised by the way the daughter seemed to be in control of the bike as she goes down a “curved path of the park” (Pastan 915).

Metaphors help readers visualize and develop a greater understanding of the text, which in this case, is neuroscience. In conclusion, Elizabeth Kolbert's use of metaphorical expressions stimulates imagery and connections, which in turn, appears to strengthen the thesis of her essay to the

Although some may think of metaphor as ornamental and inapplicable for use in subjects other than English literature, metaphors are necessary for communication in all disciplines. The use of metaphor is crucial in the field of education because one cannot understand completely new ideas without making a connection to previously known information (Oshlag and Petrie). Textbooks readily employ metaphor to convey new information to students. Pages 28-29 of The Primate Family Tree by Ian Redmond illustrates the evolution of primates through a diagram of a tree and describes how the theory of evolution has changed since the nineteenth century. The Primate Family Tree willfully utilizes metaphors regarding abstract complex systems and the Great Chain of Being to explain scientific concepts to an audience that is uneducated in complex zoological and evolutionary processes.

She connects the point about how everything can be related with a metaphor, just as Lakoff

In The Language of Science by Carol Reeves, she discusses metaphors in science in unit two and how they are an important part of everyday life. We constantly use metaphors in our daily lives and we have become so accustomed to them that we fail to realize how heavily we rely on them. We use metaphors consciously and unconsciously every day to describe things. They help us express feelings we cannot describe so we relate them to another experience. However, metaphors are imperfect. They fail to completely describe the events and never tell the whole truth. Sometimes metaphors make dreary situations seem brighter, or they make us feel comfortable with what is going on in the world.

A metaphor enhances