ENGL 102W Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: International Wheelchair And Amputee Sports Federation, This Be The Verse, Lightning
31 Oct 2015
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Through metaphors, we can understand/experience one thing in terms of another: we can transfer characteristics of one thing to another to understand better, pure metaphor: something stands in for another thing, The differences between the 2 things being compared stay. Light as a feather what is being describe is like a feather but the a is like b but a is not b the relationship is explicit, obvious implications of feather don"t transfer onto what is being described. We are taking the characteristics of a rollercoaster (having lots of ups and. Source: rollercoaster downs) & transferring those characteristics to life literally, life isn"t a rollercoaster but figuratively, it is: simile (cid:0) the box is light as a feather. We are taking the light qualities of the feather and applying those. Source: feather qualities to the box: metaphor (cid:0) blanket of snow. In tell all the truth but tell it slant we can observe a more complicated simile.
