Unique, Extended Metaphor: Assignment Analysis

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.

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.

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.

The extended metaphor about Noah emphasizes on Durrell's mother's courage and resilience. As stated by Durrell, "she has steered her vessel of strange progeny through the stormy seas of life with great skill, always faced by the dangerous shoals of overdraft and extravagance, never being sure that her navigation would be approved by the crew, but certain that she would be blamed for anything that went wrong." (10) The image of Noah steering his ship in the hectic sea proficiently expresses the danger he faces, whilst the shoals resemble the high stakes, and the numerous animals on his ark represent the life placed in his hands. Rather than spending multiple paragraphs describing Durrell's mother's financial and emotional struggles, a single

This past Tuesday we were placed into groups and asked to continue reading Metaphors written by Lakoff and Johnson, after we had read some of it as a class. While reading this book as a group, we took interest in the metaphorical concept time is money. We discussed that even though we couldn’t use time as a form of actual currency, we spend it every day whether we choose to or not. After, we discussed how we can either spend our time wisely, preparing for classes, or we could spend our time having fun. Meaning that we should budget our time as though it was money. Following this discussion, we took interest with the last paragraph on page eight. Specifically, we took interest in the statement, “We are using our everyday experiences with

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This verbal-visual collage tries to show the destruction and violence present in the poem in contrast with the gentle yet mysterious section of the poem. I saw the clear difference between the two since the first section of the poem mentions “armies with trumpets” as well as “Zeppelins, helicopters, rockets, and bombs”. I then contrasted this part of the poem with the more mysterious and soft side of the poem that was defined with quotes like “lost in the clouds” and “I am standing staring at the top”.

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

I believe this quote could have two meanings, a metaphorical meaning and a literally meaning. The metaphorical meaning would be that Christians can make any location their home, but they do not fit in at that location due to their faith. In addition, this temporary fatherland is just that, temporary, as their eternal home is in heaven. The literal interpretation of this quote would be that as previous Jews, now converted Christians, are spread out over a vast area of land they may no longer be in the Promised Land, their fatherland. Jews were removed from the Promised Land when Babylon captured them and brought them into exile, and they have been under oppression since that time by various nations. For this reason, where they are currently

I think my workplace seem relevant in the machine metaphor. Actually, it is depended on situations. If talking about work, I can say that my organization runs with mechanical metaphor. In contrast, when the employees are not in work hours, we seem like being in a family. For example, employees who are in same generation have fun and enjoy weekend together. They meet in informal meeting, talk and share about work, and life. They help each other.

Significant variations in the prevalence between world regions suggest that environmental factors, such as climate, diet, obesity, smoking rates, and microbial exposure could influence the development of AD.

Conceptual metaphors underlie the fundamental human thinking process. The most used example in the book is of the metaphor ARGUMENT=WAR. The concept of argument is war can be clearly seen through the way it is expressed in words. For example, one defends or attacks a

The death penalty is what built our world today, its been used around our world for hundreds of years. The death penalties are what built our safe country by putting all the bad criminals to justice. It has always been part of our history and it always will be. According to deathpenaltyinfo.org, “Britain influenced America’s use for the death penalty more than any other country.” The first recorded execution in the United States was Captain George Kendall, and he was executed in Jamestown, Virginia for being a spy for Spain. Today more people are against the death penalty and the use of it has declined since the 1990’s (Death Penalty Information). I believe the death penalty should only be used in certain cases and situations, such as

The information is very important for people in communities. Citizens can receive the information from a variety of mass media such as televisions, radios, and newspapers, and also get from new media such as the Internet. This information has affected to people who use data for making social and political decisions (Ederstone, 2011, p. 140). Media ownerships play an important role as man in the middle by collected facts from their journalists and spread to general public. Also the same information can disseminate to worldwide through new media. The purpose of this assignment is to illustrate the benefits of concentrated media ownership, including news to become international and a variety of services and products. It will then go on to describe the disadvantages, which involve diversity of content and lack of neutrality.