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    ■ About Metaphor Corporation Since 1995‚ Metaphor has sold software and IT services. Metaphor has several dozen consultants who are full-time employees. These consultants work out of Metaphor’s head office and they also travel the world in order to install software‚ provide training courses‚ and initiate and maintain sales relationships. Metaphor also has administrative and professional staff members in the head office. In addition‚ metaphor has sales agents in various locations around the world

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    completing the sonnet together. Shakespeare’s work in Act 1 Scene 5 from “Romeo and Juliet” shows how they are a piece of one another through a romantic sonnet filled with religious metaphors to achieve the overall effect of unity.         When Romeo and Juliet first meet‚ Romeo is very romantic and uses religious metaphors to express his feelings for Juliet. Romeo says things like “My lips‚ two blushing

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    Metaphor Drops Of Jupiter

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    Metaphor Criticism Found in Drops of Jupiter By Train. Brianne Keller Bloomsburg University Choose an Artifact The artifact I choose to study is the song performed by Train‚ called Drops of Jupiter. This song has a long list of metaphors‚ both straight forward and hidden within the context. There are many interpretations to the lyrics‚ but nevertheless‚ the metaphors remain. Therefore‚ Metaphor Criticism is the criticism I choose to analyze this artifact. Some background on the song and band;

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    Metaphor‚ metonym and pun are all creative strategies and can be used verbally or visually to create an advert or poster that engages‚ surprises and makes the viewer of it‚ pause and think. Metaphors are based upon differences and familiarities of something for example “her mind is a sponge” saying that she can soak up information well‚ not that it is actually sponge like. Song lyrics and poems are full of metaphors as they help to create a visual image from text. Metonym is a small part of a whole

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    King Oedipus himself‚ who slayed his father and wedded his mother. Throughout the text‚ Oedipus keeps a very prideful demeanor‚ seeing himself as incapable of fault‚ which ties into the main idea of escaping fate. Sophocles uses expertly crafted metaphors to convey the main idea of the piece of Greek theatre. The King of Thebes‚ Oedipus was presented with a prophecy so outrageous to him‚ that he denounced the prophet Tiresias. This prophecy is that he killed his father‚ the former king of Thebes

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    really recovers from an attack. Rape is not just about women because men can also be raped. Rape is about power and how that shift of power can change one’s life forever. In Maleficent the topic of rape is presented in one scene during the movie. The metaphor for rape in Maleficent is powerful‚ shocking‚ and eye opening. Rape in films is an important way to deliver the message to a broad audience because the movie shows how power is exchanged back and fourth between victim and assailant‚ changes in characters

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    The Metaphor-Miss Hancock

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    Dionne Mok “The Metaphor” character sketch paragraph In the story “The Metaphor” By Budge Wilson‚ Miss Hancock can be described as overenthusiastic‚ eccentricity‚ liveliness and wacky. Miss Hancock is unmarried and a very beautiful women that is a wacky but a fun teacher. From the story when Miss Hancock hears Charlotte’s very descriptive and interesting metaphor about her mother and notice that she might have a problem with her mom. She asks Charlotte whether there

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    he has never met‚ while speaking on behalf of her son‚ in which he has never met. This letter places a lot of pressure on Samuel Johnson because he knows how terribly disappointed she will be when he does not follow through with her request. Johnson’s unique diction causes the reader to deeply think about the implications of her request. For example‚ "Hope is itself a species of happiness‚ and‚ perhaps‚ the chief happiness which this world affords: but‚ like

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    Eternal Sunshine Metaphors

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    The metaphor of the storage and subsequent retrieval of memory is also sustained in Eternal Sunshine. Once again‚ the inscribed objects‚ which Joel brings to Lacuna to help create a virtual map of Clementine in his brain‚ are represented as housing the memories inscribed to them. Van Dijck writes: “Memory objects […] robust materiality seems to guarantee a stable anchor of memory retrieval—an index to lived experience.” Therefore‚ these objects also need to be erased in the process of forgetting

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    Shel Silverstein Metaphor

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    One thing that interests me most about metaphor and how you take something little or even play full but then relate it to this big amazing concept or problem in everyday life. I enjoy how metaphor can relate completely unrelated thing like in the Sylvia Plath poem how she compares eaten a bag of green apples to pregnancy‚ apples and pregnancy are nothing alike but she makes u see the similarities. for my primary source I would like to do a poem by Shel Silverstein he has been one of my favorite

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