1 / 14

Reading Metaphors

This guide provides a step-by-step approach to crafting metaphors, focusing on connecting seemingly unrelated nouns to deepen understanding of characters, events, or settings in literary texts. Using "The Lorax" as an example, we illustrate how to create and defend a metaphor, such as comparing the Onceler to a butterfly. The process involves selecting an element, reflecting on its traits, and identifying a non-related noun with similar characteristics. This creative exercise enhances critical thinking and encourages deeper literary analysis.

dulcea
Télécharger la présentation

Reading Metaphors

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Reading Metaphors Thinking is a submarine.

  2. Metaphor is: • a comparison between two seemingly unrelated nouns • noun = person, place, thing, idea • does not use like, as, or than • does use: is was be am were being are been

  3. example Love is an onion.

  4. Step 1 • Choose an event, character, setting, idea from the text.

  5. Step 1

  6. Step 2 • Reflect. • Reflect on the traits of the event, character, setting, idea • appearance • personality • mood • tone • What has similar traits to the event, character, setting, idea you chose?

  7. Step 2

  8. Step 3 • Reflect. • What has similar traits to the event, character, setting, idea you chose?

  9. Step 3

  10. Step 4 • Choose the best, deepest combination of event, character, setting, idea and a non-related noun with similar trait(s).

  11. Step 4

  12. Step 5 • Write your metaphor. In “The Lorax” the Onceler is a butterfly.

  13. Step 6 • Defend your metaphor. • A: state your metaphor • P: provide support as to how the two nouns being compared are related • E: Explain how the two nouns being compared are related

  14. Step 6 In “The Lorax” the Onceler is a butterfly. As the Onceler’s tale unfolds it becomes clear that as a young man he is not a beautiful man. His focus is on gaining wealth and acquiring material possessions with little regard to whom or what he harms along the way. When he realizes the damage he has caused, he cocoons himself in his living quarters in his factory. He emerges at the end of the tale as a changed man, one who realizes the beauty that existed in the world around him before he build his factory and worked to gain his material wealth.

More Related