Transcript Metaphor=a comparison of two seemingly unrelated things

Figurative Language
• Figurative language refers to techniques
writers use to add more detail to their
writing.
• Two common types:
– METAPHOR
– SIMILE
What is the difference between the two?
Metaphor=a comparison of
two seemingly unrelated
things without using like or as
Simile=a comparison of
two seemingly unrelated
things using like or as
Similes and Metaphors are
EVERYWHERE!
Here are two well known songs.
Which has the simile? Which has
a metaphor?
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
Your heart's an empty hole
Your brain is full of spiders
You've got garlic in your soul
Mr. Grinch.
We are young
heartache to heartache we stand
No promises no demands
Love is a battlefield.
We are strong
no-one can tell us we're wrong
Searching our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield.
You're begging me to go
then making me stay Why do you hurt me so bad?
It would help me to know
do I stand in your way
Or am I the best thing you've had?
Believe me
believe me
I can't tell you why
But I'm trapped by your love
and I'm chained to your side.
We are young
heartache to heartache we stand
no promises, no demads
love is a battlefeild
Simile in pink
You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel
You're as cuddly as a cactus
You're as charming as an eel
Mr. Grinch.
You're a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
Your heart's an empty hole
Your brain is full of spiders
You've got garlic in your soul
Mr. Grinch.
Metaphors in blue
We are young
heartache to heartache we
stand
No promises no demands
Love is a battlefield.
We are strong
no-one can tell us we're wrong
Searching our hearts for so long
Both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield.
Metaphors aren’t restricted
to one line.
A metaphor that is longer
than a line, and that can
encompass an entire
piece/poem, is called an
extended metaphor.
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Is there really a road?
What might the road
stand for?
What might the
“undergrowth” represent?
What might the “grassy”
path represent?
The narrator chose the
second path—the grassy
one—what does this
represent? Is he actually
walking down a path?
Let’s Practice with Metaphors..
• Select one of the following items:
Car
Garden
Closet
Pencil case
Amusement Park
Pantry
Locker
Other?
Write as MANY characteristics of the item as
possible in your WNB, drafts section.
Off you go!!!
Write a metaphor to be used in
your personal essay. Try to extend
it to two or three sentences.