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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.
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Mastery Learning
M E T A P H O R S
S I M I L E S
(c) 1989 by
Allen Hackworth
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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.
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The definition is simple.
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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.
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Lets's try another example.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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Change slithered to
trotted or change
barking to coiling.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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