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here are some more metaphors...
He's very switched on
bright student
dimwit
prices are rising
skyscrapers
a dirty trick
We call these conventional metaphors: the
meaning is obvious and it's old. No one knows
who first used it.
pig = greedy, rolls around in dirt, gross
NOT 'lovely pink skin' or 'clever'
sloth = lazy or slow
NOT 'cute and fluffy'
let's recap what
we've learned
a metaphor is
for example...
a lot of insults are
metaphors
the END
and
describing people as
dogs is the opposite of
in control, in charge
the driver controls where to go in a horse and carriage or a CAR
...a pig
...a dog
oh, and those people who think their pets are people
Think Beatrix Potter, Walt Disney, Aesop (Aesop's Fables, the hare and the tortoise, etc) and the child having a screaming fit because someone
pulled the arm off their teddy bear.
is from a time where candlelight was common. Moths were drawn to the light
getting so close many were burned.
not candlelight but the glamour and
brilliance of electric light
'the smallest worm will turn,
being trodden on' (Henry III)
the worm has turned
this comes from leading a horse on a rope
this is a scythe
(the blade, attached to the biro is VERY sharp... trust me).
The Grim Reaper does not
harvest wheat, he harvests
people. The Grim Reaper =
the personification of
Death.
reaping = cutting down or harvesting wheat
(not with scissors), but with a scythe...
she's a
doll
you might have heard of the Grim Reaper, but have
no idea of what reaping is
'The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch' (Richard III)