Can someone give me a simple definition for metaphors?
Metaphors in simple terms is “A way to describe something.” Example –> Brian was a wall, bouncing every tennis ball back over the net. This metaphor compares Brian to a wall because ________. a. He was very strong. b. He was very tall. c. He kept returning the balls. d. His body was made of cells. The answer is C, as he kept returning the balls to the net. Now try this one yourself. We would have had more pizza to eat if Tammy hadn’t been such a hog. Tammy was being compared to a hog because she ________. a. looked like a hog b. ate like a hog c. smelled like a hog d.
Metaphor (from the Greek: μεταφορά – metaphora, “a transfer”, in rhetoric “transference of a word to a new sense”, from μεταφέρω – metaphero, “to carry over, to transfer”) is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects.in comparison it uses the terms the and/or as In the simplest case, this takes the form: “The [first subject] is a [second subject].” More generally, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope that describes a first subject as being or equal to a second subject in some way. Thus, the first subject can be economically described because implicit and explicit attributes from the second subject are used to enhance the description of the first. This device is known for usage in literature, especially in poetry, where with few words, emotions and associations from one context are associated with objects and entities in a different context. Within the non rhetorical theory a metaphor is generally considered to be a concluded equation of terms that is more forceful and ac
