Similes and Metaphors

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Similes and Metaphors

• By Brooke, Morgan, and Kristin

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Terms of Focus

• 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

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Simile

• 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
• Jens room is like a pig sty.
• I love thee freely, as men strive for
  right
• I love thee purely, as they turn from
  praise.

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Metaphor

• 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
• Jens room is a pig sty.
• sty is applied to the literal subject room
  without using like or as

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Extended Metaphor

• 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.

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Mixed Metaphor

• 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.