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E11 metaphors
- 1. Metaphors + Similes This is like this. This is this.
- 3. Example How cool am I? Cooler than a polar bear’s toenails Big Boi “Atliens”
- 4. Example How strong am I? Strong as a mother
- 7. Example How strong am I? Strong as a stinky socks
- 8. How can you describe baldness? What about this?
- 9. How do you create a good metaphor? First, kill all cliches.
- 10. What’s the cliche? Elvis was hungry.
- 11. What’s the cliche? Elvis was as hungry as a horse. Elvis was so hungry he could eat a horse. Elvis was as hungry as a bear.
- 12. What objects/people are hungry (or at least want something badly)? desert —> rain students —> summer (teachers?) Sylvester —> Tweety Surfer —> Waves spider —> flies
- 13. I’m as hungry as… …Dracula at the blood bank.
- 14. Your turn Describe someone who is friendly Describe someone who is mean
- 15. Ways to include metaphors He’s as ___ as ____. He’s as smart as a calculator.
- 16. Ways to include metaphors Belinda is calculator smart.
- 17. Ways to include metaphors Belinda makes Einstein look like a doofus.
- 18. Ways to include metaphors Nadia’s brilliance shines like a supernova over a poor planet of awed Earthlings.
- 19. What have we learned? “Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.” ― Orson Scott Card
- 20. Your turn 1. Blue paint spilled on the road like__________________________ . 2. Canceled checks in the abandoned subway car seemed__________. 3. A spider under the rug is like______________________________. 4. Graffiti on the abandoned building like______________________. 5. Nothing was the same, now that it was______________________.