Tropes And Metaphors In Narrative Analysis

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.

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

Imagine yourself shipwrecked upon an uninhabited island. The experience of being stranded will cause you to pose many questions, with the possibility of only one of those questions to being answered. One answered question is: what is the purpose of literature? Northrop Frye, within “Motive for Metaphor”, uses the analogy of being within an uninhabited island to examines the purpose of literature by connecting it to the purposes of language and their use within the different worlds and levels of the mind Frye sees present.

The first use of metaphor to convey an underlying message to the reader is the use in the first chapter “The Things They Carried”. O’Brien

Figurative language can help the author make a point. An author can use specific types of figurative language to convey a certain point which in the long run can express the purpose of an author’s work. Personification gives life like characteristics “ The fire was out to get her” (Walls). This personification shows her attachment with fire and the fear it causes her it also helps the reader connect with the writing letting the author better convey the purpose.

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.

Writers write for a reason, they try to tell a story, describe an image or an emotion or an idea. And they do this to share a message. Metaphor is more than a 65 point scrabble word, it’s a decision that an author makes in order to further a message that the author is trying to share. Writing has a point. Both sherman alexie and joy harjo wrote for a reason, in their pieces “ a drug called tradition” and “ the women hanging from the thirteenth floor window” they talk about individuals relationships with their own future and past and the relationships of others.

Metaphors are complex comparisons used in American writing. They can be used to compare and analyze numerous things like expressions, objects, activities, and how we think. In the book, Tuning, Tying and Training Texts: Metaphors for Revision, Barbara Tomlinson, the author, discusses her viewpoints on metaphors and how they relate to the process of revision. She talks about how we come to adopt our writing process which is through, “…metacognitive expressions and culturally shared information” (Tomlinson 59). Metacognitive expressions are thought to be moments in life when, “writers…become aware of themselves as thinkers” and” also pause, “to observe themselves in the act of writing or to reflect on what they are doing” (Tomlinson 59).

We rely on what Nietzsche describes as metaphors “designates only the relations of things to human beings and in order to express them he avails himself to the boldest metaphor! The stimulation of a nerve is first translated into an image: first metaphor! The image is then imitated by a sound: second metaphor!” (144). According to Nietzsche, metaphors are one of the largest flaws on language, because they are not true knowledge and lack truthfulness. Nietzsche believes that between each stages of the sphere; stimuli, image, and sound, something vital is lost. Once we experience a stimulus, it begins to lose its unique characteristics, which creates a more general perception of the stimuli. When we look at a tree, we see it with a bunch of leaves, bark, branches, and twenty feet tall, but by the time we create an image in our mind of that same tree all the tree has is a big trunk with a bushy top, we leave out the important characteristics that makes it a

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In his Preface to the play, Bolt informs the reader his main metaphors are the sea and dry land, to suggest the supernatural order vs. the human order. The sea is formless, vast, and unpredictable. The land is security, home, order, what is known. Thomas More paradoxically clings to the safety of law and land but finds himself swept by his religious faith out to sea. Bolt did not want a purely naturalistic play, he says, and the metaphors are a way to add scope and philosophic depth, as in a poem.

Throughout the conversation the client stated her main concern was that she was acting “irrational” at home and therefore is concerned about going back home, although she did not verbalize it, this was expressed through her non-verbal communication. This area is the most concerning for me as well because she appears to have a negative social group that she has tried to distance herself from but could still be a threat to her mental health, I am not sure that she is ready to give up the negative influences in her life because she hinted at being lonely and having terminated friendships. Usually the patient’s verbal and non –verbal communication were consistent with one another except when she stated that she felt good about being able to go home in a day, however non-verbally she softened her gaze and tone which indicated some uncertainty.

What differentiates poem from other works of writing? What makes you realize that what you read is a poem but not a short story? Bearing in mind that the answer might differ from person to person, I believe that the crucial difference is that the underlying message is generally not obvious in the poem, and it forces the readers to think about it for a while to understand its deeper meaning. The fact that the message is not apparent in the poem, is often attributed to the usage of metaphors in the poetry. According to Oxford Dictionary, metaphors are the “figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable”. Even though they are used for different reasons

Wilson and Carston argue that metaphors are cases of ad hoc constructions (7), for instance, when a speaker says, ‘The boy is a lion’. While a literary scholar would see this as metaphorical, Wilson and Carston believe that the above sentence is a case of the use of an ad hoc