AQA GCSE English Language Descriptive Writing: Extended.
If our thinking is true then the metaphors by which we think must be good metaphors - CS Lewis. This post is to encourage you to uncover the secret metaphors embedded in your thoughts that shape who you are. Metaphors are Comparisons. A metaphor is a way to compare two things.
Too many different metaphors in your writing can make it confusing or too over the top. A mixed metaphor combines one or more metaphors in a sentence in a way that doesn’t really make sense. For example, imagine if you tried to encourage your staff to excel with a project by saying “let’s get back out on the court and hit this one out of the park!”.
Footnote: In wartime news reports, war metaphors may be too easily confused with their literal equivalents. During times of war, reporters will lean towards very tactile metaphors, often involving single or repeated physical strikes on an inert material. Look for metaphors like pulverized, pounded, hammered, chipped away, struck or beat down.
Essays for School Days. School Days essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of School Days by Patrick Chamoiseau. School Daze: Confusion Inherent in Finding Identity through the Colonial Education System.
Ibsen created an extended metaphor of Nora as a doll in Torvald’s dollhouse to illustrate her confinement. As the title of the play implied, Nora was trapped as a doll in the house of her husband Torvald; Nora lived to please him as a doll exists to please a young child. He treated her like a doll.
EXTENDED METAPHOR POEM EXAMPLES POETRY GENRE STUDY, PRYZBYLKOWSKI D-6 high speed and non-controllable winds. The first thing you notice is the unfinished bed, with sheets tossed around like a salad. Then, your eyes gaze at the floor.
A lesson on how to use similes and metaphors in descriptive writing.