Metaphor Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Mary Shelley’s literary treatise ‘Frankenstein’ originally published in the year 1818 falls in the genre of horror fiction. Shelley gives an account of the ethical issues present in technological developments and researches. She discusses the relation of a monster and its creator Victor Frankenstein, who possesses a deep passion for science and research. Out of his burning desire, Frankenstein creates a monster, which acts inhumane and destroys the lives of the human beings it encounters unable to withstand the unacceptability in the society. As a result of his creation, Frankenstein loses all his near and dear, and decides to end his life ...

The poem touches on the abandoned pick-up. This metaphor may represent several instances as witnessed in Nebraska. The metaphor may relate to the class and wealth that are determined by the race, sex and also sexual orientation. There are people who are deemed as less privileged in the society. A stated in the poem, “its billow of dust full of the sparks of redwing blackbirds,” which means that despite the potential that the people possess, they are never given a consideration (Kooser). There are a number of the minorities who cannot be able to gain as much wealth as compared to ...

I have chosen the concept of metaphor for analysis.
Metaphor – is a figure of speech, a word or an expression used in a figurative sense, which is based on an unmentioned comparison of object with another on the basis of their common trait. It is a figure of speech consisting of the use of words and expressions in a figurative sense, based on some analogy, similarity, comparison.
An example of metaphor from everyday use may be the following: Your voice is music to my ears, and you are my sunshine in the sea of blackness. (In other words, it would be: your ...

Figurative and literal language is a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Figurative language refers to words or expressions which alter the conventional meaning of the component words. On the other hand, literal language refers to the original meaning or words which convey exactly what they mean. English language is at times considered as the most difficult language to learn due to the use of figurative language. This paper will define and give examples of different types of figurative language with their appropriate usage. The examples of figurative words are idioms, amphibole, metaphors, analogies, euphemisms, cliché among others.

Idiom

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Indeed, Mixtec writing can be considered to have had an impressive history that spans to more than 2000 years. During this long duration, it has managed to express numerous aspects and concerns in regard to social reality in which it has been produced. Bringing us to the Mixtec-Aztec interaction, Mark B. King shows us how various characters and pictorials forms of writing represents complete ideas and words instead of sounds and syllables in poems and metaphors. The structure and meaning of the Mixtec codical symbolism have been examined and expounded in his article. According to King, the focus on ...

There are few Americans today who are not familiar with Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous speech, “I Have a Dream.” At the time King gave the speech, America was in the middle of a civil rights movement that would end segregation and other injustices (King). However, it is not just the timeliness of King’s speech that makes it so effective; King’s rhetorical expertise persuasively uses comparison and contrast, metaphor, poetic language, and emotional appeal to all people regardless of race rally the nation to his forceful but peaceful cause with words that will be remembered for generations.
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Abstract

In the present paper, the connection between religion and science is described through the interdependence of root metaphor and truth. The rational of the mentioned explanation is emphasized through the argument of Richard A. McCormick, a prominent theologist, moralist and bioethists. Thus, his explanation of modern unity of religion and science in the search of truth is explained.

Key words: religion, science, truth, root metaphor, McCormick, humanity, perception.

The Revelation of Truth Trough Metaphor
Using the concept of “root metaphor”, Richard A. McCormick managed to do something which scholars, scientists and priesthood could not do for ages. He had explained both rationally and scholarly that traditional notion of religion ...

Critical thinking

Gareth Morgan “is a British/Canadian organizational theorist, management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto” (Witzel ,2003). In 1986 he wrote a tremendous work on management “Images of organization”. This book was translated into many languages and is still republishing. While writing this book, Morgan had the idea to unite all existing theories and bring the most complete and easy understanding of the structure of any organization. He succeeded in completing this ask, that is why his book is still valuable and widely used.
After reading this book I have got a lot of new information ...

In “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” it becomes almost impossible to separate Dylan Thomas, the poet who has written this poem, from the speaker of this poem, who is urging father to struggle fiercely with death. In other words, Thomas is used the speaker of this poem to say things he was probably not able to say to his own ageing father, whose health was declining and death was impending. The fact that the speaker has several autobiographical elements cannot be denied, which makes him the poet’s alter ego, but he is still not quite ...

In Jacques Lacan's "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious; or Reason Since Freud," the author deconstructs the concept of language by relating the subject to both speech and language. His first and primary subject is the titular 'letter,' which is described as "the material support that concrete discourse borrows from language" (Lacan). The author describes the letter as a "material medium" which, though it may change with time, provides the transition between one word and another. Regardless of different spellings or pronunciations of a certain word over time, the letter is effective ...

Doritos ‘Goat 4 Sale’ advert is powerful commercial that uses humor to attract viewers’ attention and curiosity while promoting Doritos chips as the most delicious and addictive. The goat is seen, screaming, kicking things and jumping on the table because there was no Doritos chips left in the cabinet. These funny events can easily be recalled by the viewer because they are distinctive and unusual.
The Doritos intended to promote their chips as the most delicious and addictive. The main characters in the commercial are seen eating the chips. The goat is captured eating chips stored in the ...

Writing about the discrimination of women, Gearhart (1979) mentions that the act of violence in the one that rules a person and is the very fact of existence for a human. She singles out our understanding of human entities and non-human ones claiming that “we have been human chauvinists too long, calling consciousness out own, cornering the market upon it, setting ourselves above everything human because of our “higher awareness”. She believes that distinguishing between human and non-human objects changes them, and, as a result, becomes an act of violence: “The act of violence is in the intention to change another”(Gearhart, ...

M. Shelly "Frankenstein", E. Pauline Johnson " A Red Girl's Reasoning", E. Dickinson "poems 260, 269, 320, 340, 353, 479, 1096

Introduction:

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, E Pauline Johnson’s ‘A Red Girl’s Reasoning’ and Emily Dickinson’s poetry all explore what can be seen to be similar themes such as doomed love, unrequited passions and identity. Metaphor is also present in Dickinson’s poetry where the allegorical nature of her writings arouses feelings of intimate passion on a smaller yet no less powerful scale. One can observe an indelible link between all three female authors who were concerned with love ...

Language is the art of expression and it constitutes of a wide variety of ingredients which tend to elaborate it from different perspectives. When a language is translated, its meaning is transferred to another language. But when we tend to transfer the meaning of different contexts inherent in a single language, similes and metaphors are used to make the connection. Euphemisms are also some debased cousins of metaphors; the basic difference is that when a metaphor is used, its meaning is obscured while the euphemisms would seem one thing whereas their meaning is completely different. The linguistic status of the euphemism is doubtful ...

In Martin Luther King Jr.'s seminal 1963 speech "I Have a Dream," King uses a number of critical thinking processes in order to present his argument. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, King delivered a speech that is remembered now as one of the most significant pieces of oratory in the 20th century. His call was for blacks and whites to come together, for blacks to be granted greater freedoms and for America to become a nation of equals. Not only was the speech thought-provoking and emotional, but King's points were excellently handled and ...

My family used to own a farm that took up about 120 acres in northeastern Texas. The nearest town was a sleepy hamlet called Ector, that had about 800 people in it when I was a kid; the town has grown smaller since then. Bonham was further down the road, the seat of Fannin County. When I was a kid, you could go into Bonham to bowl or watch a movie, or even shop at Wal-Mart. But we didn’t do any of those things when I was a kid, and we went down to the farm. Instead, we stayed there – first in the old, ...

The poem “A Subaltern’s Love Song” by John Betjeman is a very sweet poem that tells a story. Inside the poem is a mystery about love and who is in charge, the man or the woman. It’s the type of poem that makes a person smile when you read it. The author uses ‘ambiguity’ to make the mystery. The reader isn’t quite sure which meaning some of the words have. For instance I think the “subaltern” (which means “a person holding a subordinate position”) is the young man saying the poem. Although the young woman is the victor in the tennis game ...

It has often been said that poetry and lyrics are one and the same: indeed, lyrics are undoubtedly the modern day equivalent of the popular poem of previous centuries; the rock stars are the poets. Whether poem or lyric, they convey human emotions, stories of love and loss, and conjure up imagery for the reader/listener to imagine. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the words and ideas of one poem with its song counterpart. For this, I have chosen Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats and the lyrics to My Very Best by Elbow. ...