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| Aufgabe | | The difference between Metaphor & Image!!! |
Hi,
can some one explain me the characteristic differences between a metaphor and an image...for example in a poem. Would be nice, if you give me some examples for both stylistic devices!
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(Antwort) fertig  | | Datum: | 14:25 Mo 02.10.2006 | | Autor: | Riley |
HI!
well i don't know if i'm right, but i would say an image is sth above a metaphor? Because the term 'imagery' subsumes rhetorical figures such as metaphor, metonymy, synedoche and synaesthesia.
The term 'metaphor' refers to 'word pictures' that are used to convey a figurative meaning. The actual referent is not named directly, instead it is replaced or paraphrased using words from another field of reference. Additionally, metaphors are often described as shortened or covert comparisons, because, in contrast to the direct compaison (known as simile), the comparative particles 'like' or 'as' are not used.
okay, you asked for some examples:
a metaphor can combine - two nouns: "Jessica, the bird of paradise"
- a noun and a verb "Time flies."
- a qualifier an a noun "stinging pain"
or it takes the shape of a statement "edmund is a pig"
Maybe you know Pound's famous poem "In a Station of the Metro"?
so the "petals on a wet black bough" are a metaphor for "these faces in the crowd".
okay, hope i could help you
greets riley =)
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Vielen Dank_!
DoktorQuagga^^
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