Love in the Eyes of Poets: Metaphors and Similes in Poetry

Love in the Eyes of Poets: Metaphors and Similes in Poetry LT 201 Vocabulary You are my sunshine.

(1) Ed keeps many dogs as pets. He is a dog lover! • a(n) music/animal lover 音樂／動物愛好者 • (2) If the weather is fair, we can go out and have a picnic in the garden. • fair →fine/sunny • She tries to be fair toall of her students. • fair (adj.) →(opposite)unfair • a book fair→fair (n.)展覽、市集

Q: What do we call an event where people go to get information about different kinds of jobs? • A:A job fair. • (3) praise sb. for (doing) sth. • (5) compare A to B 比喻 • Trans: 他把女朋友的眼睛比擬成閃爍的星星。 • He compares his girlfriend’s eyes to twinkling stars.

Dictation: • Children hate to be compared with their brothers and sisters. • compare A with/to B把A跟B比較 • (6) Johnny took part in the speech contest and won the second place. • (8)concreteexamples/information • →(opposite)abstract

a brick wall • a concrete wall • concrete (n./adj.)混凝土(的) • concrete jungle 都會叢林

(9) Dictation: • Nowadays, it is very difficult for many people to live without electronic devices like cell phones and computers. • device (n.) 裝置/儀器/器材 • 省水裝置 • water-saving device

(11)deep vs. deeply • Her lies hurt my father _____. • The workers are working _____ underground to build the tunnel. • Her lies hurt my father deeply. • The workers are working deep underground to build the tunnel. • The depth of the shelves is about 35 cm.

(12) • a dove • a pigeon

(15) surrendered to sb • surrendered sth to sb • Dictation:She surrendered her dream of becoming a model . • (16)There's a great film on TV at midnight. • Dictation: • I had to burn the midnight oil to prepare for the midterm exam. • burn the midnight oil:to work or study until late at night

a scoop of/ two scoops of • an ice cream scoop • 杓子 • Dictation: • The paparazzi followed the movie star wherever he went, hoping for a scoop. • 獨家新聞

(18)an ice cream cone • acone-shaped party hat • cone (n.)圓錐體; 圓錐形

(20) Harry tickledhis baby girl, and she laughed happily. (= gave his baby girl a tickle) • tickle sb → give sb a tickle

metaphor (n.) You are my sunshine.

(1) You are my sunshine. • (2) Her home was a prison. • (3) All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely playersThey have their exits and their entrances • --William Shakespeare

simile (n.) • He is as strong as an ox. • He is sleeping like a log.

A simile or a metaphor? • America is a melting pot. • Your eyes are like the sun. • He eats like a pig. • He is a pig. • John is a real pig when he eats. • Life is like a journey. • My father is a rock. • He lives like a pig.

as busy as a bee • as easy as A.B.C.as easy as pie • as sly as a fox • as smart/wise as an owl • as smooth as silk • as white as a sheet

Love in the Eyes of Poets: Metaphors and Similes in Poetry