1. Metaphor and Metonymy

2. A conversation: Your friend comes in out of the rain. n “Well, you’re a pretty sight! Got slightly wet, didn’t you?” n “Wet, I’m drowned! It’s raining cats and dogs, and my raincoat’s like a sieve!” n What’s literally true in these statements? What’s “figurative.”

3. Figure of Speech n Any way of saying something other than in the ordinary way. n Figurative language -- Language that cannot be taken literally. n Give me a list of clichés that employ figurative language.

4. Metaphor and Simile n Both compare things that are essentially unlike. n Metaphor implies the comparison n (My love is a rose.) n Simile expresses the comparison by the use of some word or phrase-- like, as, than, similar to, resembles, seems. n (My love is like a rose.)

5. The Guitarist Tunes Up Francis Cornford n With what attentive courtesy he bent n Over his instrument; n Not as a lordly conqueror who could n Command both wire and wood, n But as a man with a loved woman might, n Inquiring with delight n What slight essential things she had to say n Before they started, he and she, to play.

6. Metaphors Sylvia Plath n I’m a riddle in nine syllables, n An elephant, a ponderous house, n A melon strolling on two tendrils, n O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers! n This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. n Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. n I’m a means, a stage, a cow in calf. n I’ve eaten a bag of green apples, n Boarded the train there’s no getting off.

7. Metonomy and Synecdoche n Metonomy establishes a connection based on association. –“The Pen is mightier than the sword.” –“In the sweat of thy face, thou shalt eat bread.” n Synecdoche -- A part standing for a whole. –“The crown lead the attack.” –“The hands finished the haying.”

8. Metonomy/Synecdoche n A Hummingbird -- Dickenson –A route of evanescence –With a revolving wheel; –A resonance of emerald, –A rush of cochineal; –And every blossom on the bush –Adjusts its tumbled head, -- –The mail from Tunis, probably, –An easy morning’s ride.

9. n What type of figurative langauge is he using here? n What three metaphors does he develop? Huswifery, Taylor, 643

10. Valediction, Forbidding Mourning, Donne, 623 n Vocabulary: valediction, mourning, profanation, laity, trepidation, innocent, sublunary, elemented? n Find 3 similies and one metaphor in the poem? n Is the speaker dying? Or merely going on a journey? n How would you describe the language in this poem?

11. Prufrock, Eliot, p. 729 n Find two similies n Find an extended metaphor n Find an example of synecdoche