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    Metaphor Case Study

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    PART I For this problem‚ use “Metaphor_APTrans_2002 file in ACL_Demo.” The suggested command or other source of information needed to solve the problem requirement is included at the end of each question. REQUIRED: A. Run the following ACL tests: 1. Total the Invoice Amount column for comparison with the general ledger balance of $276‚841.33 (Total Field). 2. Recalculate unit cost times quantity and identify any extension misstatements (Filter). 3. Products that Metaphor purchases

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    hottest I can remember. I felt as though I was being baked in an oven‚ though my pink princess dress would not have helped me stay cool. I was six and I loved that pink‚ floor length‚ long sleeved‚ princess dress. I ate slept‚ and played in that dress. I remember a specific afternoon where my mother and i were sitting on our brown leather couch reading my favorite princess book. In the story the princess had her own lemonade stand. After my mother finished the story‚ her eyes droopy‚ I asked her

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    Miss Gulch Metaphor

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    were obvious points in the storyline of the Wizard of Oz where characters seem to be “blown off course”‚ a reader can understand that her last name was a metaphor. In the story‚ Miss Gulch threatens to put Toto to sleep because Toto chased her cat. Because of this motive‚ Dorothy casts Miss Gulch as the Wicked Witch of the West. The metaphor is used in the movie to show that Miss Gulch had thrown Dorothy onto a different path in the odyssey. Additionally‚ Dorothy achieved a greater will to defeat

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    literary critic and theorist‚ provides a brief summary stating the preference for the metaphor over metonymy by aligning analogy with necessity and contiguity with chance. According to him‚ “’the element of truth’ is the product of a purely rhetorical and ultimately metonymical‚ sleight of hand‚ therefore over turning the traditional hierarchy and deconstructing the very basis for the seductiveness and privilege of metaphor.” Barbara Johnson pays keen and strict attention to a specific passage in her critique

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    Life’s Descriptions Life is one of those words that can be shaped however one may please and turned into an idea suited for themselves. For example‚ “Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop” (Brown). There are many metaphors used to describe life depending on whether it is an optimistic or pessimistic view. Two comparisons some may make about life are having to do with having their life course mapped out and then‚ to its polar opposite‚ going through each day without a clue.

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    Sylvia Plath Metaphors

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    uses many figurative metaphors to describe him for example “ You do not do‚ you do not do Any more‚ black shoe In which I have lived like a foot”(Lines 1-3). Plath truly describes him as a black shoe and notably‚ nazi’s wore black boots which was included in their uniforms. The significance of the color black is the symbol of something dark and evil and a shoe is something we walk on she must of felt as her father walked on her with his black shoe. The many more metaphors she describes her father

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    Jayber Crow Metaphors

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    possibilities of the way things may have been‚ may be or will be. Wendell Berry in Jayber Crow uses the power of the narrative of the life of Jayber Crow to tell powerful stories full of images and metaphors that disarm the reader and form the reader in unexpected ways. Out of these many images and metaphors‚ one of the most prominate is the land‚ the farm and the farmer. A large part of Jayber Crow’s story is dominated by his observations of Athey Keith and Troy Chatham and they way the farm the same

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    hard for everything they have‚ facing mountains of tasks daily. Created by Vik Muniz in 2008‚ the 56 by 40 inch print titled Ironing Woman uses line‚ colour‚ and texture to address the notion of continuous struggle and burden of responsibilities that challenge the working class through the portrayal of a woman in the midst of such a task. Immediately upon seeing Ironing Woman the eye of the viewer is drawn towards the purposeful line work that depicts the woman of the piece while she works. She

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    Literary Term #9 Metaphor: A type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says that one thing is something else but‚ literally‚ it is not. In connecting one object‚ event‚ or place‚ to another‚ a metaphor can uncover new and intriguing qualities of the original thing that we may not normally notice or even consider important. Metaphoric language is used in order to realize a new and different meaning. As an effect‚ a metaphor functions primarily to increase stylistic colorfulness

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    How much will you give up for someone you love? Will you give up everything? Probably not as much as the tree did. Some people take and do not give back they have no sorrow or guilt. The Giving Tree can be seen as a metaphor for a mother-child relationship. In this story‚ there is an animistic tree that cares for a boy and will do anything to see him thrive in life. As long as she sees him‚ she will be the happiest tree in the word but the boy doesn’t appreciate the love and care he is given. For

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