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Michael McDonald JPEG Jedi 
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8 October 2002
Metaphor
The metaphor is a simple, yet complex literary construct. It is simple because it is inherent in our basic knowledge. It shapes our speech, our writing, and more broadly, our thought. Adults teach children to speak through the use of metaphor. The simple name of an object is a metaphor. The title of the object invokes a picture in our minds thus, fusing the two together as comparable things. The first words that stumble out of a child’s mouth are metaphors and for this reason the metaphor is deeply imbedded in everything we do. Our thought processes are governed by metaphors. We define certain ideas in metaphorical terms and can not perceive them correctly with out the use of the metaphor. As simple as the metaphor can make things, it can also complicate things just as easily. Metaphors can evoke a complex wave of emotion in people by entwining certain ideas that elicit a response. The use of uncommon metaphors can make people change their opinion on a topic, to radically change their viewpoint because it helped them look at things in a different way. The complexity of metaphors however, stems from the meanings hidden throughout. The mystique of the metaphor can draw in a reader. The metaphor is complex because it demands to be re-read, it demands extra thought, and if you put in the extra time, it can open your eyes to new school of thinking.
Undoubtedly the best way to teach something is to explain it in familiar terms. If you liken a new thing to something that a person already knows about, then understanding will come. Basically, this is how a metaphor works; it helps to convey the writer’s ideas and meanings through the ideas and meanings of something else. Metaphors can help a person to better describe their feelings to the reader. Emotions are often hard to convey
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steven soper (Account Deleted)
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Just when I thought shock room was a superb piece of self-expression, I come across this work. Wonderful! Clean, simple, elegant and yet full of ideas. The depth is nicely acheived as well given one the sense this thing is indeed coming right at them -- or just having gone through them is going away.
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