Mister Micawber  +  97574 Mon, 09 May 05 06:29 AM Hello Dickster and all you students taking PHL251 @ UOP. The purpose of your assignment is to get you practicing thinking and writing. Try to create some metaphors yourselves and answer the language questions yourselves. Lord knows there are already more than enough examples and suggestions in this thread already, if you will read through it with attention. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,493 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.' Metaphors

	Lost_Between_Two_Worlds  +  125546 Wed, 10 Aug 05 09:38 AM "I myself will hunt this wolf to death" (Shakespear) It's a metaphor, because the speaker calls a man a wolf. "The shadow of a smile" There are also so-called "dead" metaphors, they denote mostly things, like "a leg of a chair". Such phrases are sometimes taken for metonymies (a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated), like:   "one more cup, please" (the speaker wants a cup of tea or coffee, the contents, not the form). There are many types of metonymies, another one is where the name of work of art is replaced by the name of the author: "I've bought two Rembrandts" (meaning two pictures). Lost_Between_Two_Worlds Joined on Mon, Aug 8 2005 The Russian Federation New Member 19 Imagine all the people living life in peace Metaphors