Metaphor

design to write a cleverly worded metaphor that describes how academic reading and writing can be like a conversation. For many years, schools have taught students how to properly read and write along with many skills and techniques to properly express and support their opinions. Reading and writing in a metaphoric way can be seen exactly like a conversation mainly because we can connect hearing the other person to reading and talking to writing . Burke’s metaphor is a good representation of how…

In Liu and Hanauer’s gardens of democracy, a metaphor referenced as the garden metaphor is used. Discussed is how we look at the economy as a giant machine that should just run smoothly with no hiccups, and will just be take care of without us. However as we look in on this metaphor we as citizens need to make the change and treat our economy like a garden. We expect it to just run on its own with no care, when we need to be tending to our garden. A garden requires gardeners, watering and care.…

and live up to your own expectations, not others’ is developed by the use of the flowers as an extended metaphor. In Identity, the speaker expresses the flowers as “always watered, fed, guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of dirt” throughout the poem, letting his ideas of the flowers be interpreted deeper than what they actually are (Polanco, Lines 2-3). The flowers are a constant metaphor for the people who live up to the ideas of modern society, that seems to always find the need to feel…

that Tony Morrison likes to use trees as symbols in her novel Beloved. Trees become a metaphor for her in this novel. She connects people with different trees, intertwines the natural world and humankind, and she gives Sethe a strange tree scar on her back. What does this all mean? Why would Morrison want to include something such as trees in a book? Tony Morrison is someone who likes to put interesting metaphors in her novels. Morrison likes to use many symbols in her novels, however, she…

flame in the student’s body. In “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins, Collins describes himself introducing poetry to a class of students, however Collins ideal scenario on students learning poetry is quite different from reality. Collins uses metaphors and similes to compare the traits of poetry, personification to describe poetry, in order to convey his message that poetry is a form of writing that requires an individual to interpret the meaning rather than having the message given to the…

The extended metaphor of the railway in paragraph 2 is used by Thoreau to criticize both government and individuals. In the 19th century, railways were beginning to be built throughout the United States, forming the interconnected, speed-obsessed society that we have today. Thoreau applauds certain elements of the railroad of society for resisting, saying “I am glad to know that it takes a gang of men for every five miles to keep the sleepers down and level in their beds as it is, for this is a…

A metaphor, according to Wikipedia, is “figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two”. Now one might think that it’s impossible for a single book to brilliantly and metaphorically relate farm animals and Russian communist idealisms, but Animal Farm by George Orwell does just that. From the opening page of the novel, Orwell’ preface allowed me to formulate ideas and concepts before…

poisons Brutus’ head with fake letters from Romans. Before this speech, Brutus expelled much doubt and indecisiveness about the notion of cold-blooded murder. Shakespeare uses similes and metaphors in Brutus’ soliloquy to show how his manipulation pushed him to the point of wanting to kill a close friend. The first metaphor in Brutus’ soliloquy resides in (II, i, 14-17), “It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; /And that craves wary walking. Crown him that;-- /And then, I grant, we…

Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was published in January 1845, it is about a man who is visited by a raven late one night. Poe shows that the unnamed narrator hears some tapping at the door late one night, assumes that it’s a visitor, and doesn’t bother to get up because he’s too depressed about his wife Lenore who recently died. Since the noise from the door continues, he decides to check on it, but when he opens the door there is no one there. Even though he saw nothing outside his door, he…

sliced open by a buzz saw. He had been taken to the doctor’s, and eventually dies. After this, everyone just goes on with life which is an interesting elongated metaphor. Robert Frost uses metaphors and hypotyposis to advance the overall theme that no matter whether the antagonist or the protagonist wins, life goes on. The elongated metaphor throughout “Out, Out,” by Robert Frost with the protagonist eventually being…