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Similes and Metaphors
By: Brooke, Morgan, and Kristin
Terms of Focus
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Simile
Metaphor
Tenor: The literal subject that is being
compared
Vehicle: The vehicle conveys the comparison
(what is being compared?)
*REMEMBER THIS!
Ex; Love is a rose
Vehicle is love and the tenor is the rose
Simile
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Figure of thought in which one kind of thing is
compared to a markedly different object,
concept, or experience; the comparison is
made explicit by the word “like” or “as”.
Figurative language
Examples:
“Jen’s room is like a pig sty.”
“I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.”
Metaphor
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A word or phrase that in literal use designates
one kind of thing is applied to a conspicuously
different object, concept, or experience
without asserting an explicit comparison
Figurative language
Example:
“Jen’s room is a pig sty.”
“sty” is applied to the literal subject room without using like or
as
Extended Metaphor
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A trope that is sustained through several lines, ringing
changes on the multiple relevance of the vehicle to
the tenor.
Figurative language
Examples:
I do know,
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul
Lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter,
Giving more light than heat, extinct in both
Even in their promise, as it is a-making,
You must not take for fire.
Mixed Metaphor
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Occurs when two or more incongruous
vehicles are applied to the tenor.
Figurative language
Example
“She felt a heavy burden of guilt, but she would not let it
engulf her resolve.”
“Burden” and “engulf” are the vehicles for the tenor, her guilt.