1. Metaphor Collage

2. Metaphor/Simile
Why?

3. Metaphor Gives us a new/interesting way to think.
Yes, it compares two things without using like or as, but it does so much more!
It compares things, in order to give us a different view. It’s colorful speech!!!

4. Simple examples Elephant in the room. Slippery slope
A few bad apples spoils the bunch.

5. Pick one….
“I don’t always see the world completely in black and white, sometimes I do.”
…Benicio Del Toro
“A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.” …Anonymous
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. …John Shedd

6. Metaphor in Song Lyrics
Best to keep things in the shallow end, cause I never quite learned how to swim. I just didn’t want to know. (Perfect Circle)
Shine on you crazy diamonds. (Pink Floyd)

7. More Metaphor..
Looking for treasure in the things that you threw, like a mag pie, I live for the glitter not you. (Mika Song) Men who fear Demons, see them everywhere (Brom, The Child Thief)

8. Simile
The art of collage is like life, you take what you have and make the most of it.

9. Visual Metaphor
Two Examples

10. Obvious Visual Reference

11. “My Life”

14. Can a person be a metaphor?

17. Student Metaphor Collages

22. Romare Bearden (Artist of the Unit)

23. As you find your own visual/written metaphor and create your own visual metaphor (collage), please contemplate, analyze, and reflect..
Make us think!