Metaphor

2. METAPHOR
A metaphor also compares, but a metaphor
is a bit more sophisticated than a simile.
For one thing, in a metaphor, the words
like or as are missing. So readers have to
recognize the comparison on their own
without those easy words which help us to
spot a simile so quickly.

3. METAPHOR (CONTINUED)
In a metaphor, a poet writes that X is Y.
Readers understand that we are not to
take the comparison literally, but that the
metaphor helps us to see X in a new way.
My brother is a prince.
Razorback Stadium was a slaughterhouse.

4. Examples
I am a rainbow
"I am a rainbow" is a example of metaphor because
it is comparing two nouns, a person, and a
rainbow, but does not use “like” or “as”.

5. MORE METAPHORS
Richard was a lion in the fight.
Her eyes are dark emeralds. Her teeth are pearls.
But Avoid Mixed Metaphors (combining two or more
incompatible images in a single figure of speech):
Management extended an olive branch in an attempt
to break some of the ice between the company and
the workers.

6. IMPLIED METAPHOR
What is implied here about the speaker’s
love?
 Oh, my love has petals and sharp thorns.
 Oh, I placed my love into a long-stemmed vase
And I bandaged my bleeding thumb.
And here, what is implied about the city
and the subway?
 The subway coursed through the arteries of the city.

7. DEAD METAPHOR
A dead metaphor has been so used and overused
that it has lost its power to surprise, delight, or
effectively compare.
A cliché is a dead metaphor, a phrase so often
repeated that it no longer has force:
 He hit the nail on the head.
 She was cool as a cucumber.
 Jump out of the frying pan and into the fire.
 This powerpoint show is crystal clear.
 Avoid the use of clichés in your own writing!

8. METAPHOR POEM TRANQUILITY BY STARFIELDS
Tranquility
Time slides
a gentle ocean
waves upon waves,
washing the shore,
loving the shore.
Source: http://silviahartmann.com/metaphor-poem.php

9. Can you see that ocean?
Can you feel the slow rhythm of the
waves?
Can you sense the essence of tranquility?
Do you understand the concept of
tranquility better now?
Do you feel more tranquil in having
touched this?