Metaphors are a Minefield!!

Block 5. These are the examples we looked at, if you didn't manage to copy them down. See if you can identify the two sides of comparison, and the effect this has, or the image being created. Do as many as you think you can manage, don't worry if you only do two or three. Have fun!!

• Metaphor - From the Greek, "carrying over"
  

· "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet black bough."(Ezra Pound, "In a Station at the Metro")
· "My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill."(William Sharp, "The Lonely Hunter")
· "Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food."(Austin O'Malley)
· "Words are bullets, and should be used sparingly, aimed toward a target."(Army Colonel Dick Hallock)
· "Language is a road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going."(Rita Mae Brown)
· "The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it--and the glow from that fire can truly light the world."(John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961)
· "Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times."(Rita Rudner)