Perhaps the goalie is like a baby seal with a deadly shark circling closer and closer. We want him stalwart in the face of his opponent. How about comparing the goalie to unexplored ocean depths? That might give you plenty of character ideas about your goalie and his deeper thoughts and ideas.
The goalie, pressured from all sides with unrelenting force, slipped deeper into his pocket, finding swells below the surface that buoyed him along and kept him focused on the predator that was descending.
Writing Techniques. Here are three popular examples of metaphors: Love is a battlefield. You light up my life!
He broke my heart. Think of some of the most famous metaphors and how full they are of meaning. She was a bull in a china shop. The email was the smoking gun in the investigation.
This is using a metaphor in a less direct manner. The paper was white as snow. She had a heart of stone. However, in your poetry and fiction for that matter you can do much more than say X is Y, like an algebraic formula. Definitely play with extended metaphors see above and experiment with some of the following, using metaphors Using Metaphors in Creative Writing Summary: This handout discusses the writing obstacles most frequently faced by beginning poets and fiction writers and will offer tactics for addressing these issues during a tutorial.
Metaphor Table Definition Origin A comparison between two things, based on resemblance or similarity, without using "like" or "as" most dictionaries and textbooks The act of giving a thing a name that belongs to something else Aristotle The transferring of things and words from their proper signification to an improper similitude for the sake of beauty, necessity, polish, or emphasis Diomedes A device for seeing something in terms of something else Kenneth Burke Understanding and experiencing one thing in terms of another John Searle A simile contracted to its smallest dimensions Joseph Priestly.
Related Terms Table extended or telescoping metaphor : A sustained metaphor. The teacher descended upon the exams, sank his talons into their pages, ripped the answers to shreds, and then, perching in his chair, began to digest. John swelled and ruffled his plumage. To be avoided! The movie struck a spark that massaged the audience's conscience. Uses of Metaphors as verbs The news that ignited his face snuffed out her smile.
Metaphor Table Scratching at the window with claws of pine, the wind wants in. Imogene Bolls, "Coyote Wind" What a thrill—my thumb instead of an onion. Persuade with writing full of imagery. Now check your email to confirm your subscription.
I keep coming back to your writing about metaphors. I write and create animated content and I have been inpired by the metaphor series. Metaphors work well in the CG world too. Thanks a bunch. Yes, sure! I use metaphors in my course videos a lot, too. The metaphors really help people to remember the message. So, I would like to begin by saying that this lesson is metaphors encyclopedia.
By giving such deep insights, this blog ready helped. More power to you. Dear Professor Henneke, Topic: Metaphor. I have been reading this lecture today, as usual, I was very fascinated, and I love it. This class on the use of metaphors, has thought me how to make use of my personal life experience to illustrate and enhance my topic in my story telling. Well then, I hope I have been able to pass the message across.
Thank always. Yours, …. It helps re-invent my writing style. Hello, Henneke. I just came across your post and want to thank you for all the kind comments about my book The Tall Lady With the Iceberg the expanded edition of Metaphorically Selling. I believe that when people think of or picture themselves in their heads they automatically use metaphors.
When kids watch movies and imitate their favourite superheroes for instance, they make use of strong mental metaphors. Any suggestions would be welcomed because this has stumped me for too long.
And to improve the team, yoh decide how to improve — you teach them tactics and skills step-by-step. Hi Henneke, Just wanted to say thanks for your great content. Mightily relieved to find someone who writes about copywriting the way I think about it! Then sprinkle these throughout your piece as your build the case for your solution. For example, I wrote a report about white papers. Readers often find it hard to find unbiased information online.
Most of it is too promotional. So I used words and ideas around focus, clarity, clearing the fog, lens etc, to build a case for white papers. Seemed to go down well!
Yep, finding words around a theme is a good idea. The more sensory and unusual the words are, the better this works! But watch your back. For my own retaliatory strike. There is a reason if we Hypnotherapists use metaphors, as you said they drive the concept more easily and interact with the right brain and the Subconscious Mind.
As images do. Hi Mohammad I think you probably need to expand on your metaphor. How exactly is blogging like your medical class?
While Blogging I am writing something and thinking something else, same in my medical class hearing something and thinking something else.
To make your metaphor easier to understand for your readers it would be useful if you give specific examples of how what you write and what you think are different. The more specific your metaphor the better because that helps people visualize and quickly understand what you mean. NO I meant that I say my readers to be doing everything ideally while I myself some times think of doing things otherway around.
Henneke, When engaging with a potential new client I rob Peter to pay Paul…. Slightly tortured, but it always seems to get the point across with a hat tip to too many virtual and actual coaches or mentors to list here. Oh Henneke will you get outa my head please!
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