A lesson in reading between the lines… - PowerPoint Presentation

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A lesson in reading between the lines…

MetaphorSlide2

Metaphor is a

figure of speech

in which a comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. Unlike simile, you don't use "like" or "as" in the comparison.

Metaphor DefinitionSlide3

Sometimes the speaker says something IS something else.

The clouds are marshmallows in the sky

Sometimes the speaker IMPLIES that something is something elseMarshmallows float through the air

Metaphor DefinitionSlide4

Explicit metaphor

explicitly stated or obvious

Implicit metaphornot explicitly stated or obvious When something is subtly compared to another thing. Can slip by readers who aren’t paying CLOSE attention to languageExplicit

vs

Implicit MetaphorSlide5

For example, You want to describe a stubborn man, unwilling to leave

He was a mule, standing his ground.

This is a fairly explicit metaphorThe man is being compared to a mule.

Explicit MetaphorSlide6

For example, You want to describe a stubborn man, unwilling to leave

the man "brayed his refusal to leave"

the subject (the man) is never overtly identified as a mule.Braying is associated with the mule, a notoriously stubborn creature, and so the comparison between the stubborn man and the mule is sustained.

Implicit or Unstated Metaphor

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I am a rainbow

It is comparing two nouns, a person, and a rainbow, but does not use like or as.

ExamplesSlide8

I am not Anger

i

t is contrasting two nouns.

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My life is a dream,

like a tiger wakingup from her deep sleep.My life is likea dream,it's alluptome,the treesarepurple,

thestars

talk

away

the night,

the

moaning moon

lights

up the sky.

By Autumn

My Life is a DreamSlide10

I am Las Vegas growing by the infiniteawake morning by night,

or day.

I am Las VegasMy hand is the sand.By Rachel

I am Las VegasSlide11

I am a sword,

Sharper than a tongueNobody can defeat me,Because I am a sword,I can not be hurt by what people say

About me,

I will not show my anger

Against

Someone else.

By Alex

I am a SwordSlide12

Math is the career for kids.

If you don'tknow mathyou won't make any money.you won't get a job.

you won't get a house.

By Jake

MathSlide13

Metaphor for a Family

By BelindaSlide14

My family lives inside a medicine chest:

Dad is the super-size band aid, strong and powerful

but not always effective in a crisis.Mom is the middle-size tweezer

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which picks and pokes and pinches.

David is the single small aspirin on the third shelf,

sometimes ignored.

Muffin, the sheep dog, is a round cotton ball, stained and dirty,

that pops off the shelf and bounces in my way as I open the door.

And I am the wood and glue which hold us all together with my love. Slide15

Fifth of July

By JohnSlide16

My family is an expired firecracker

set off by the blowtorch of divorce. We lay

scattered in many directions.My father is the wick, badly burntbut still glowing softly.My mother is the blackened paper fluttering down,blowing this way and that, unsure where to land.My sister is the fallen, colorful parachute,lying in a tangled knot, unable to see the beauty she

holds.

My brother is the fresh, untouched powder that

was protected from the flame. And I,

I am the singed, outside papers, curled away

from everything, silently cursing

the blowtorch.Slide17

Metaphor Classics

Sonnet 18

By William ShakespeareSlide18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion

dimm'd

:

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course

untrimm'd

;

But they eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou

ow'st

,

Nor shall death brag thou

wander'st

in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou

grow'st

;

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Can you identify examples of metaphor?

Check to see if you know what Metaphor is.

Click only on the examples of metaphor.

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Crash, bang, boom! goes the car.

Over the tree over the hill.

Books are dreamsWell done! You are a star!Swoosh! goes the flag The pizza said, "Eat me!"Cats camp in California.The sand is a golden blanketWar cries.Red crackles.The moon is a white balloonSlide21
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