Metaphors

What is a metaphor?

Why use metaphors? Think about describing a family. Which conjures up more meaning and feeling – She is a good person in a family with poor moral values. – OR – She is a rose in a sea of thorns. In both sentences we get that she is a good person and her family members are not, but the metaphor paints a vivid picture of making it more meaningful.

Your hear metaphors all the time.

What metaphors were in that song? What did they mean? Like a small boat on the ocean, sending big waves into motion. – Something small can make something big happen. Like how a single word, can make a heart open. – Again, something small can make something big happen. And all those things I didn’t say, wrecking balls inside my brain. – The feelings she held inside and never told anyone are tearing her up inside.

“God’s the seamstress” What does he mean? – A seamstress is a person who sews clothing. They take material, cut it, and tailor it into clothing. – He is saying God is the one who has chosen what things happened in his life.

What “She walks like a model, she grants my wishes like a geni in a bottle.” What does he mean? – She is beautiful or perfect like we see models. – She does things to make him happy.

Metaphor or Simile “God’s a seamstress who tailor fitted my pain.” 50 Cent – metaphor “My words are diamonds dug out of a mine.” Big Boi – metaphor “…I get physical like physicians” Emienin – Simile “Shine bright like a diamond” Rihanna – Simile “I am titanium” David Guetta – metaphor “She grants my wishes like a genie in a bottle” OMI – Simile “Like a small boat on the ocean” Rachel Platten – Simile