The Extended Metaphors

Barbara Johnson’s critique focuses on the metaphoric, metonymic and voice in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. It focuses on the major character, Janie Crawford’s inner and outer change towards her various relationships. She focuses on the strengths, both vocally and physically, gained after her first slap down by her second husband, Joe Starks.

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

The world before the flood was already in turmoil and ruin, enveloped in sin and chaos; it is in this world that Noah’s faith made him the only righteous man. God had entrusted in Noah to complete a very important task that would test his faithfulness to Him. God’s plan was to destroy the world by way of flood as the result of mankind’s misdeeds. He instructed Noah to construct an ark to save his family and all species of animals, two of each kind - male and female. All of them would survive in the ark while God sent down a watery wrath to be swept across the earth, wiping out everything in its path. Noah was obedient; his life revealed qualities of patience and persistence which made him the perfect candidate for the building of the

In paragraph twelve, it says, “As you might expect, it wasn’t long before Daddy got him a new name, too. Many folks took to calling him Noah, or sometimes Noah Count- like No Account, you see?” In paragraph thirteen, the narrator explains how it was a good thing that he didn’t go to school that day because he would have beat up anyone who called his father crazy. People started calling him Noah because of the raft he made. The raft was large and could fit all their animals in it, sort of like ‘Noah’s Ark’. To conclude, many people thought that his father was crazy for building a raft when there was no need for

Koval's triangulation of data occurs multiple times from end to end proven his theories, materials, and methods all over his book. The author’s enlightenment and commitment also cross verifies the same information. Due to the reality of his data, the strengths of his research prove that his information is credible and legit. Within Our Foundational Metaphors for Evidence, Booth (2008) wrote, “Language like that encourages readers to think of evidence as a reality independent of anyone’s interpretation and judgment” (p. 133).

Metaphors are used in writing to give the reader a picture in his mind of what is being discussed. “That’s all she was. A vagina,” (Cooper 23) J. California Cooper said. She used metaphor in that sentence above, to show us how down her friend Lorene went. What she wanted say by substituting her friend of a vagina is, that her friend became for her environment nothing more than an object. An object that was only needed to be used.

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.

An ant describes me at the moment. Like an ant, I don’t allow obstacles to stop from me from achieving my goal. When I tasked myself to become a music producer in senior high school, the huge requirements needed such as owning and being able to play a musical instrumental and having access to studio equipment did not stop me from learning music production. I started practicing how to produce music on my father’s laptop with the help of tutorial videos I found on YouTube. Even though my first output as a music producer was poor, constant practicing helped me to improve on my skill and become a music producer, who is now able to teach music production to others. Also, in my early stages of my music production career, when I wanted to showcase my works to a large audience through websites, I was asked to pay before put my instrumentals would be put on top music sites. The obstacle of not having enough funds did not deter me from showcasing my works to a large audience. I studied how to promote my works online for free by learning from YouTube tutorial videos taught by experts. With this, I began posting my works online, which helped me to get a lot of musicians who expressed interest in using my instrumentals. Being able to acquire these

In today’s society, many children learn about the story of Noah’s ark during their childhood. This story often leads to a spark of imagination to children trying to imagine all of the animals to be on one gigantic ark. What may seem like an incredible story in the light of a child’s eyes may often lead to questions on how it was possible as one gets older. This in turn leads to some of the possibilities of what it would take if Noah’s ark were to be possible.

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

In the world we may all have that one negative person in our lives. The one who may constantly be negative or constantly be putting that burden on your shoulders. These type of people are always the best people to have in one’s life but sometimes when they are one must remove that person and realize the relief it put back into one’s life. In Daddy the narrator proves just this and lets her feelings out about her situation.

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.