Metaphor

  A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. There are many different metaphors.A regular metaphor could be “I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression" the example compares how sudden the depression hit the person.


    There are also many specific kinds of metaphors like simile, personification, anthropomorphism, hyperbole, parable, fable, and analogy. Simile means the comparison of one thing to another thing for example "Music is like a taco it can be hard or soft" the example is explaining there are many different type of music. Another kind of metaphor would be personification meaning making a human characteristics to something nonhuman. An example for personification would be"The basketball told me we were late for lunch" the example given is demostrating how it brings a basketball life . Another kind of metaphor is anthropomorphism which is giving an animal human characteristic or an object it is closely to personification for example, "The dog in Bathoven was playing basketball and wearing sneakers".The example is describing how the dog could play ball but in reality we can't really see a dog playing basketball. Another metaphor is hyperbole which is exaggeration for example "I am so hungry I could eat a horse." It is an exaggeration, because nobody could eat a horse. A parable would be another type of metaphor. The parable is a simple story used to teach us a lesson. An example of a parable could be "The boy who cried wolf",which is about a kid who a farmer tells him to cry wolf if he see's one he says it the first two times joking around, and the third time there was actually a wolf but nobody believed him and the wolf ate him.  Another metaphor can be a fable describing a short story, typically with animals as characters, giving a moral to the story. An example could be"The donkey and the Lap dog" which is about a farmer who has a donkey and a dog, the famer sits the dog in his lap then comes along the donkey and tries to do the same an kills the farmer.A metaphor would be analogy which is  a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation an example could be "hot is to cold, like fire is to ice". These are some examples of what metaphors are and how are they likely used.


Understanding metaphor let's us appreciate poetry, in many different poems like in "Joy" it gives an example of hyperbole in the sentence which says "Just when you thought winter will be here forever that it could never end" it sarcastically exaggerates by saying "winter will never end" when it does end. Another quote of the poem that gives  us a metaphor of anthropomorphism is when the author says "first blade of grass, the messenger of spring" the example showing it says the messenger of spring but there can't really be a messenger for spring. In another poem called "Play" it gives us an example of personification in the line "Random raindrops on the window pane.Touch them with your finger tip -but there's the barrier of glass" it is making us think we can actually touch the raindrops and the raindrop is a wall of glass, which in reality that can't be possible. In the poem "Treasure" it gives us a plain example of a metaphor, "child raised the lid of the battered box to reveal a small feather,a stone and a piece of ruby glass". This is a metaphor because in a treasure we'll usually find jewelery and gold but the kid is comparing the jewelery and gold to small feather, stones and a piece of ruby glass.  In another poem called "Creativity" it helps us identify an example of personification, one of the lines that gives is a clue to that is when the author says "there is a shadow of a branch outside.It moves and it is dancing.It writes its story and the ink is living light". It gives an example of branches supposedly dancing and the reason is because humans usually dance not branches, also gives an example writing a story in the daytime because is the only way you'll be able to see the shadows in the daytime so it gives an example on how they moving and how we can see it. In another poem called "Peace" it gives us an example of animism "The wind is now a roaring, smashing monster of destruction, raking all man's work"  this is an example of animism because it is turning the wind into a monster and giving it life.

   A simile can be used as for an elephant, for example "He eats like a pig, Vines like golden prison" the example is trying to say he eats a lot because pigs eat a lot and can hold us like someone on a prison because a vine can be like a rope and hold us tight with his trunk.  In this link it gives us many different examples of simile and how they use the elephant to identify it. As in the link it can show us many different examples on  how it relates to a simile, it gives you quotes to describe what a simile can be.

   A personification is when we are giving an object life, personifications are used in many different stories and poems. In the poem "My Town" it gives us an example of how is being used. "The leaves on the ground danced in the wind, The brook sang merrily as it went on its way" the way it uses personification is because is giving an example of how the leave is dancing in the wind. The author is trying to say the wind is moving the leave but they  make an example as if the leave was dancing. The other example given is how the brook is supposedly singing  as it kept going on it's way, which means the water kept flowing as there might of been sounds in the air.


In the fable "The bat and the birds" they use a meaphor in an example that the bat is alone, then a group of birds show up and ask him if he wants to join them and he replys and says "No, I am a beast" then he they leave and another group of lions and other animals show up and ask the bat to join them ane he says "No I am a bird". After a while the bat seemed lonely so he went of and asked the birds them and they denied him on joining him, then he went of to the other group to the beasts and they replied as well saying no. The metaphor giving is that the bat uses other animals to make believe he's others because he didn't want to be bothered.


 In two of Emily Dickinson's poem there are different metaphors being used in one of the poems called "I took my power in my hand" It gives an example of hyperbole in the line " I took my power in my hand ,And went against the world"the reason why is a hyperobole is because it's an exaggeration nobody can really get power from their hands and go against the whole world. In the other poem called "The wind" there's a different type of metaphor being used and it's a simile in the line that indicates "The wind tapped like a tired man,And like a host, Come in" The reason why this line can be a simile because it's using like and i's comparing the wind to a tired man, and to a host giving an example of how the wind will say come in just like the wind.


 In the poem "(a leaf falls) loneliness" is using a simple metaphor because is describing how when a leaf falls is loneliness, which means when a single leaf falls down a tree it might mean loneliness because it's falling down by it'self and is just like a person when they don't have nobody.


  Metaphors can work in many different ways in our life, we use it everyday as examples to the way we talk and write as well. As we keep growing the world keeps developing and it shows us many examples and experiences in life that we can relate them as metaphors. The way we speak everyday in exaggeration is an example of metaphor and also fables that teaches us lessons are examples or changes that cause in our life that can be seen as metaphors. A metaphor that can apply to me would be "A Battle - Everything is a competition or a struggle.  We are always either winning or losing". This could apply to me because in life we don't always get what we want we either learn the hard way or the good way, and even though things may be going good at a moment everything could go to end you have to struggle in order to succeed, this would be my opinion towards this quote and why it applies to me.

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The video "Digital Text" teaches us and helps us see how interesting writing can be and within time how writing has been able to develop in such a unique way. In the past all we had was a pencil and eraser. Now we have technology that has advanced and helped us guide with faster writing then just using a plain old pencil and eraser. By only highlighting text on a computer we are able to backspace and delete everything we wrote or edit writing without rewriting.Digital writing has had text grow all over the world it illustrates the art of writing and how many varieties of writing we can be able to do. As we use our computers to write it's amazing how digital text can correct our writing and check our spelling or check our grammars in sentences and if we have errors it could rapidly fix it. As digital text keeps evolving around the world, we've had more advanced work then the usual. We can get things completed faster and better.


This video also helps us see how in many different parts of the world digital text has developed in many different languages. Many different cultures remain to use digital text and all around the world because is much easier and it expresses it in a way that people like to use and tend to keep up with the advances of technology. As digital text keeps on going it has had a great impact towards people that leads them to keep wanting on using it. As time goes on technology seems to get deeper and more advanced meaning things change and it's amazing how advance things seem to be all the typing can be lead from the computer and grammars can be fixed automatically. In the video it also shows how digital text is so much more advanced, comfortable and much easier then using pencil and paper to be crossing out everything you do. Digital text has seem to impressed people the way things are used now then how they were us in the past. It's a good thing that digital text has changed many people

As I watched the video Digital Text, I can see things have really changed in a way that is really amazing for instance many changes have been made towards the years and the centuries. The way things challenge to be used now is phenomenal and way easier then it was before. As I saw the video it seemed to impress me that we the people are who manage machines and technology. I learned that without us human beings there won't be any creations or advanced ideas in the world. In this video there are many apps that has helped us provide information that will probably need in the future and in the time being, one of them is called "Way back Machines". Websites are used in html which means they were defined to the structure of a web document. An example that can lead to this is they show us some details on the video how a structure


As I read in the article "Rethink Schools" it teaches you how much school has changed and has developed to be during all these years. Everything has changed from back then to now more attention has been paid to improving standards, assessments, professional development, curriculum, and instruction. Back then in schools we did not have computers and we did not have the knowledge we have now to improve our ideas today. Now things have changed and we have computers, text book, and things that can help us learn quicker and understand things way easier. Community interaction and gathering and sharing of information helps students learn. In the past people were taught way different then now in schools they help you organize with computers and teach you way more importance then before. With that in mind, education leaders should design more learning environments. The way we are taught now is more comprehending then what it was before because technology has advanced and people have improved with their ideas. Now classes are more elastic in other words instead of teaching one class per hour they should make more improvements and expand the learning so we can have greater ideas and more advanced technology then what we have now. As we seen in digital text things also have changed because before we used pen and paper now people have developed the technique for digital text such as “Rethink Schools” with the type of classes we have now, that are more advanced. The more years pass the more we improve our way on technology to rethink more technology and everything in a higher level.


As life goes on people keep rethinking on ways to construct themselves to a higher technique of level.  Till the time we are small till the time we grow up things keep changing and developing in many different ways. As I grow up I rethink many things as possible to grow up to be somebody big.  In the eighteen years I’ve been living life seems to change more and more, things are more advanced then when I was just a little girl in elementary school.  After I kept growing up I kept seeing more changes daily then the usual might be. When I was just a little girl all I did was write in my journal as I grew up I got my own laptop and grew into my own writing which developed into a quicker writing which tend to be more easier to me. As the time keeps going I think technology will keep developing itself and greater ideas will come to other people in mind. While I saw digital and read the article “Rethink Schools”  I’ve learned many things I didn’t know before that made me think differently because now I know how much technology has came to be and how much of impact it has brought to the world.



As I interviwed my grandmother she explained to me how she has rethink a lot of things she's done. While I spoke to my grandmother she told me she has rethink the way to work with people, back then people were treated different then how they were before. She said she has worked for a lot of years dealing with her patience with people but although now and days people are more open minded then back then. My grandmother also said that she has managed to have more patience on how tings happen to be and things are more advanced then when she would work like 30 years ago, meaning a lot of things have changed and have been able to open up to how things would work from 30 years from now.


The video change helps you rethink about things on how everything work so fast. Ideas are more advanced for everything you have to do you have to rethink. When you walking towards your job or school you have to rethink about how things are going to work that day, what are you going to learn and what to establish. As people keep making business and dealing with careers and opening up shops they have to rethink in a way on  how they are going to help people, how will they manage for people to like what they are inventing and what they are making because if not we won't be the people who we are today cause for every step in life we make we have to rethink what are we going to do, what do we have to do, and where is it taking us. For many of us we don't rethink what's going on in our lifes and whats surrounding us so things happen to go not correctly as expected because we don't ask ourselves what are we doing before we do it in other words rethinking for our actions. This is why is important to rethink about everything you challenge everyday and ask yourself if everything you are doing is a value to your life and is it worth it, "RETHINK" is important to our daily lifes cause it directs us on a good leading path and make us be somebody in life.