Marvelous

Metaphors!
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Hello!
I am Ghada Ben Khelifa
I am here because I love to give presentations.
You can find me at ghadabenkhelifa@gmail.com
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“
‘’ A beautiful thing is never
perfect. ‘’
-Egyptian Proverb
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Table of Content

➜ Extended
➜ What is a
Metaphor
Metaphor?
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➜ Lesson
➜ Metaphor vs.
Project
Similes
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A picture is
worth a
thousand
words
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What is a Metaphor?
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What does metaphor mean in
literature? The most straightforward
metaphor definition is a direct
comparison between two things or
concepts. Metaphors use figurative
language to make comparisons that
might be unusual or unexpected.
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A metaphor is a kind of analogy that can serve a

number of purposes. Writers use metaphors to
make equivalencies between seemingly unrelated
concepts to show how they are similar.
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They also use metaphors to allow readers to

consider the metaphor's subject from a new
perspective or to make a piece of writing richer
and more interesting. Well-crafted metaphors can
illuminate important ideas in a text, inform
readers about characters and events, and leave a
lasting impression.
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Metaphor Examples
There are many metaphor examples that people
might use in daily speech as well as metaphor
example sentences that appear in literary works.
The following idioms and common sayings are
actually all examples of metaphors because they
directly compare two otherwise unconnected
ideas:
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➜ ''She has a heart of gold.''

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➜ ''The field was covered by a

blanket of snow.''
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➜ ''Love is a candle burning in the

darkness.''
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➜ ''He is a walking encyclopedia.''

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➜ ''There are plenty of other fish in

the sea.''
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These are all straightforward examples of

metaphors that are commonly used in English.
Sometimes, the subject of the metaphor is implied
rather than stated outright. For instance, ''plenty of
other fish in the sea'' means ''plenty of other
potential romantic partners in the world,'' but the
metaphor is so culturally understood that it is not
necessary to flesh out the metaphor fully.
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In some cases, people might accidentally create

mixed metaphors. Mixed metaphors occur when two
metaphors are blended in a single sentence,
producing a potentially nonsensical result. Examples
of mixed metaphors include:
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➜ ''They need to get all of their

ducks on the same page,''
combining ''get all their ducks in a
row'' with ''get on the same page.''
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➜ ''We'll burn that bridge when we

come to it,'' combining ''don't burn
bridges'' with ''we'll cross that
bridge when we come to it.''
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➜ ''You've opened this can of worms,

now lie in it,'' combining ''open a
can of worms'' with ''you've made
your own bed, now lie in it.''
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Mixed metaphors, when they are created on

purpose, are usually intended to be humorous
rather than particularly meaningful.
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Literary Metaphor Examples

While the above metaphors are common in
everyday parlance, metaphors are often most
effective when used in literature. The following
passages from various literary works show the
creative and often unexpected ways that writers
can utilize metaphors:
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Title and Metaphor Description
Author
Lyra... felt as if she had been The character
The Amber handed the key to a great house having this
Spyglass by Philip she hadn't known was there, a experience is
Pullman house that was somehow inside realizing that she
her, and as she turned the key, has fallen in love.
deep in the darkness of the
building she felt other doors
opening too, and lights coming
on.
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Title and Metaphor Description
Author
You've never spoken before. You will. This speech
Embassytown You'll be able to say how the city is a demonstrates the
by China Miéville pit and a hill and a standard and an incredible versatility of
animal that hunts and a vessel on the the metaphor but leaves
sea and the sea and how we are fish in the specific meaning of
it, not like the man who swims each connection to the
weekly with fish but the fish with reader to determine.
which he swims, the water, the pool. I .
love you, you light me, warm me, you
are suns. You have never spoken
before.
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Title and Metaphor Description
Author
The surface of a slate-grey lake Many poems use
''Postscript'' by is lit metaphors to create
Seamus Heaney By the earthed lightning of a striking visuals.
flock of swans
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Title and Metaphor Description
Author
We are at the gate shaking the This poem
A Brother Named gate climbing the gate clanging compares a person
Gethsemane'' by our cups against the gate. This is to a garden through
Natalie Diaz no garden. This is my brother a series of images.
and I need a shovel to love him.
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Metaphors are common in novels, short stories,

poetry, plays, and other literary forms. They are
perhaps most common in poetry because poems are
predisposed to make extensive use of figurative
language.
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Extended Metaphor
The metaphors listed above are all relatively self-
contained. They are only present in one passage
and are fairly short. Extended metaphors are
another kind of metaphor that continues the same
comparison throughout an entire literary work.
 It is fairly common for poems to make use of
extended metaphors that create a deeper, more
involved comparison between two ideas. Some
short stories and novels also use extended
metaphors to make a point and to enrich the
story. In some cases, particularly in novels,
readers might have to get all the way to the end
of a text to understand the full weight of the
metaphor.
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Extended Metaphor Examples in

Literature
Perhaps the most famous extended metaphor of
all…
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and
women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances; And
one man in his time plays many parts.”
-Shakespeare’s As You Like It
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Extended Metaphor Examples in

Literature
”But soft! What light through yonder window
breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief…
—Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
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Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 18 is one long

extended metaphor.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
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By chance or nature’s changing course

untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his
shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
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Hope by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune–without the words,
And never stops at all,
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And sweetest in the gale is heard;

And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land,

And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
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