METHAPOR

Metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words,a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristic.Furthermore, a metaphor develops a comparison which is different from a simile i.e. we do not use “like” or “as” to develop a comparison in a metaphor. It actually makes an implicit or hidden comparison and not an explicit one.

Most of us think of a metaphor as a device used in songs or poems only, and that it has nothing to do with our everyday life. In fact, all of us in our routine life speak, write and think in metaphors. We cannot avoid them.

Example of metaphor :

·  You are my sunshine.

·  A light in a sea of darkness

·  A lifetime is a day, death is sleep; a lifetime is a year, death is winter.

·  Your love is an ocean

·  Life is a mere dream, a fleeting shadow on a cloudy day.

PART OF METAPHOR

a.       Responsibility metaphor

Example :I have to beart the responsibility for this.

b.      Idiom metaphor

Example:give someone a hand.

c.       Relationship of metaphors

Example:I was very attached to him.

d.      Emotion of metaphor

Example:it had a huge impact on them.

Using appropriate metaphors appeals directly to the senses of listeners or readers, sharpening their imaginations to comprehend what is being communicated to them. Moreover, it gives a life-like quality to our conversations and to the characters of the fiction or poetry. Metaphors are also ways of thinking, offering the listeners and the readers fresh ways of examining ideas and viewing the world.