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- MicroHelp Library
- English Notes
- Item A (could be anything) is compared
- to item B (could be anything).
- For example, compare item A, a boy, to
- item B, a snake.
- Press ENTER
- Mastery Learning
- M E T A P H O R S
- S I M I L E S
- (c) 1989 by
- Allen Hackworth
- Press ENTER to continue
- M E T A P H O R S and S I M I L E S
- Press 1, 2, 3, or 4
- 1. METAPHOR: a tutorial
- 2. SIMILE: a tutorial
- 3. A Test for
- 4. Main Menu
- A metaphor is . . .
- a comparison.
- Press ENTER
- The definition is simple.
- PRESS ENTER
- English Notes
- "The boy SLITHERED into the room."
- The word "slithered" is a metaphor. It
- compares the boy to a snake.
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- My English Notes
- In the last example, the metaphor was in
- the verb. If we said, "His SLITHERING
- movements were objectionable," the
- metaphor would be in the adjective.
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- English Notes
- If we said, "The snake was late again,"
- the metaphor would be in the noun.
- In all three examples, SLITHERED,
- SLITHERING, and SNAKE, we have a
- COMPARISON of a person to a snake.
- Press ENTER
- Lets's try another example.
- Press ENTER
- English Notes
- DON'T RUFFLE MARTHA'S FEATHERS OR SHE
- SHE WILL PECK YOU.
- Which words do you think are metaphors?
- Name them before presssing ENTER.
- Press ENTER
- English Notes
- The metaphors are: ruffle, feathers
- and peck.
- These words COMPARE a girl to a chicken.
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- English Notes
- Consider another example:
- THE CAR GROANED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE
- PASSENGERS.
- What is being compared here?
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- English Notes
- Here a car, item A, is being compared
- to a person, item B.
- When an inanimate object is compared
- to a person, this is called . . .
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- PERSONIFICATION
- When you personify
- something, you
- PERSON IZE it.
- All personification
- is metaphor, but not
- all metaphors are
- personification.
- Look at another example of personification.
- THE WEEPING CLOUDS FELT MY SORROW TOO.
- Which words personify the clouds?
- & Press ENTER
- Answer:
- WEEPING
- FELT
- SORROW
- The next concept is MIXED METAPHOR.
- A mixed metaphor includes at least two comparisons
- that do not match. See the following example:
- BERTHA SUE SLITHERED INTO THE ROOM, BARKING AS SHE
- CAME.
- slithered = snake; barking = dog. They don't match.
- How would you
- correct this mixed
- metaphor?
- Press ENTER
- Change slithered to
- trotted or change
- barking to coiling.
- Press ENTER
- The last concept is EXTENDED METAPHOR.
- In this case the comparison between A and B is
- extended into the next sentences. An example
- follows. The metaphors are capitalized.
- Bertha Sue SLITHERED into the room, HISSING at the stu-
- dents near the board. MOVING RHYTHMICALLY to the back of
- the room, she finally COILED into her NEST. Her tongue
- DARTED IN AND OUT of her mouth as she surved her PREY.
- Then STRIKING without warning, she said, "You creep!"
- Everyday she is full of such VENOM.
- 9 Press ENTER
- Study just a few more metaphor examples.
- My father,
- I wondered why
- On one occasion at
- caustic tongue burned
- The great state of
- has nourished me always with nothing but milk and honey.
- Two well-loved, soft, teddy bears,
- of their days in hybernation.
- This completes
- the tutorial on
- metaphors.
- We will now
- return to the
- menu.
- Press ENTER
- Like a
- metaphor, a
- simile is
- also a
- comparison
- The only difference between a
- metaphor and a simile is in the
- way each is stated.
- The simile states that
- A is LIKE B or that
- A is AS B. The simile uses
- like or as.
- Here is an example:
- HER BODY MOVED LIKE A
- WELL-OILED MACHINE.
- In this case, her body move-
- ment is explicitly compared
- to a well-oiled machine.
- Here is another example:
- MY ROOMMATE, BERTHA SUE, ACTS
- LIKE SHE HAS MORE AUTHORITY
- THAN THE PRESIDENT OF RICKS
- COLLEGE.
- Compares Bertha to the President.
- Study the lines below and notice the similes.
- Like a living fruit
- Be still like the
- tree, my season for
- moonglow.
- blooming is near.
- Her looks were per-
- Be young like a new
- fect like a single
- dawn.
- blade of grass.
- Like a bucket of warm,
- Be high like the
- grey water, Bertha
- eagle as he hangs on
- Sue's brain sloshes
- the air.
- when she talks.
- Her touch was soft
- Be fresh like a
- like the breath of
- rainbow.
- a sleeping kitten.
- This completes
- the tutorial on
- similes.
- We will now
- return to the
- menu.
- Press ENTER
-