Microsoft Word Seminars on stylistics

speech metaphors
.
e.g.:
The dark 
swallowed
him. Mrs. Small’s eyes 
boiled
with excitement. 
The main function of metaphor 
to create images 
Metaphor 
Genuine 
Trite/Dead 
original, invented by the 
writer where the image is 
quite unexpected, 
unpredictable
Metaphor
 
the interaction between the logical and the 
contextual logical meanings of a word which 
is based on a likeness between objects. 
hackneyed, often used in 
the language

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Task 1. Define metaphors in the following sentences: 
 
1.
He broke into a fit of laughter and coughing added … manufacturing that 
champagne for those fellows. (J.J) 
2.
A cry sprang to his lips, a prayer to be lit of. 
3.
The void of faces breaking at all points and falling asunder into busy 
groups. (J.J) 
4.
As he walked home with silent companions, a thick fog seemed to 
compass his mind. 
5.
Her bosom was a bird’s. 
6.
They would sing so for hours, melody after melody, glee after glee, till 
the last pale light died down on the horizon, till the first dark night clouds came 
forth an night fell. (J.J) 
7.
To speak these things an to try to understand their nature an having 
understood it, to try slowly and humbly an constantly to express, to press out 
again, from the gross earth or what it bring forth, from sound and shape an color 
which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to 
understand-that is art. (J.J) 
8.
The white arms of roads, their promise of close embraces and the black 
arms of tall ships that stand against the moon, their tale of distant nations (J.J)