Metaphors

How do you describe this?

metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)

The thingI Want to Describe

Something myaudience knows

about+ = A metaphoror

simile

Comparison

metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)=A hospital bed is a parked taxi with

the meter running.Groucho Marx

+Comparison

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Literary MetaphorsAll the world’s a stage, and

all the men and women merely players. They have

their exits and their entrances.

William Shakespeare

“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then

suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice

weasels come.” ― Matt Groening, The Big Book

of Hell: The Best of Life in Hell

“Memories are bullets. Some whiz by and only spook you.

Others tear you open and leave you in pieces.”

― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

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Hip-hop Metaphors"I come fresh like your breath after you brush,

wack Mc's like that orange soda get

crushed."- Fatlip

"My rhymes are like shot clocks,interstate copsand blood clots,

my point is your flow gets stopped."

- Talib Kweli

"Throwing out the wicked like God did the devil,

funky like your grandpa's drawers, don't test me,

we're in like that, you're dead like Presley."- Q-Tip

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ObscureCliche

hungry as a

horse

hungry as a

cetacean

I'm hungry as a cannibal trapped

in a van of cantaloupes.

- Earl Sweatshirt.

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ObscureCliche

fast as

the wind

fastas

sublimation

Your turn

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Turn a ClicheSerious as a heart attack

Sweet like licorice, dangerous like syphillis--Lauryn Hill

sweet as sugar

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Turn a Clicheslept like a log

YOU?

easy as pie

metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)

How do I do this? Start with your target

A cold morning

metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)

How do I do this? COnsider the possibilities

Think about not only what is cold but how you think about that cold

metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)

How do I do this?Reject lameness

Abandon cliches (ice, cucumber)

metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)

How do I do this? let your mind go sideways

Cold = liquid hydrogen, Alaska, freezerCold = the grave, undertaker, corpseCold = killer, Ted Bundy, Voldemort

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How do I do this?Your turn

The dog is stupid.

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