Transcript metaphor power point

Metaphor
Creation’s Forge
Prelude
Find Simile and Metaphor in the Shins song, “Pink
Bullets”
Pink Bullets - The Shins
I was just bony hands as cold as a winter pole
you held a warm stone out new flowing blood to hold
oh what a contrast you were to the brutes in the halls
my timid young fingers held a decent animal
Over the ramparts you tossed
I don’t look back much as a rule
and all this way before murder was cool
but your memory is here and I'd like you to stay
warm light on a winter's day
the scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
tied to a brick sweet as a song
the years have been short but the days were long
Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass
we fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed
when our kite lines first crossed we tied them into knots
and to finally fly apart we had to cut them off
Since then it's been a book
you read in reverse
so you understand less as the pages turn
Over the ramparts you tossed
the scent of your skin and some foreign flowers
tied to brick sweet as a song
the years have seemed short, but the days go slowly by
to loose kites falling from the sky
drawn to the ground and an end to flight
Prelude (cont.)
Where are examples of metaphor in the song?
Where are examples of simile in the song?
What makes up a metaphor?
What makes up simile?
Introduction: Leaping
Off Points
Kelly Gallagher states in his book, Deeper Reading:
Comprehending Challenging Texts, 4-12, metaphorical
thinking has two benefits:
1. Students are more readily able to reach deeper levels of
comprehension when they understand metaphor in
challenging text.
2. Repeated practice recognizing and analyzing metaphor
enables students to generate their own metaphorical
connections to the text and to the world, thus sharpening
their higher-level thinking skills.
Introduction: Leaping Off Points
(cont.)
Metaphor is the collision of two ideas which
creates, by means of a logical leap, a new third
meaning.
“According to Aristotle, the ability to see one thing
as another is the only truly creative human act.”
(Pattison 24)
Concepts that are seemingly impossible to
objectively define, such as love or justice, can only
be expressed by our metaphoric connections. For
further examination of the nature of metaphor, read
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark
Johnson.
Inquiry Question
How can I have my
students engage in
higher order thinking
skills by creating
original metaphors
that would enable them
to write more
interesting lyrics?
Qualifying Metaphor
Qualifying metaphors are a collision of an adjective with a noun
or an adverb with a verb. We’ll be scraping nouns against
adjectives to create metaphoric friction. You’ll be working with
elbow partners.
1. One of the partners makes a column of 5 interesting nouns.
2. The other partner makes a column of 5 interesting adjectives.
3. Discuss each noun with each adjective. Find the most fresh
and different pairing.
4. Individually write a sentence with your qualifying metaphor.
http://muse.fawm.org/lyricloud
Verbal Metaphor
Conflict between a verb and its subject yields a verbal metaphor.
You’ll probably wind up with more vivid metaphors in this type of
metaphor. Verbs act. Verbal metaphors tend to be more vibrant.
1. One of the partners makes a column of 5 more interesting nouns.
(This might be the partner that chose adjectives last time to vary
the activity)
2. The other partner makes a column of 5 interesting verbs.
3. Discuss each noun with each verb. Once again, choose the most
unique pairing.
4. Individually write a sentence with your verbal metaphor.
http://muse.fawm.org/lyricloud
Expressed Identity
Metaphor
Expressed identity metaphors create a new identity by the collision of
separate ideas. These metaphors have 3 forms.
x is y
the y of x
x’s y
1. Each partner comes up with their own list of 5 nouns.
2. Discuss each noun pairing. Once again, choose the best pairing. If you
don’t find an appealing metaphor by combining column A with column B,
also look for pairings within each column.
3. Individually write a sentence with your expressed identity metaphor.
http://muse.fawm.org/lyricloud
Future Steps
1. Choose 5 interesting adjectives and then find 1 interesting noun to go with each one. This
time go for a quality metaphor. Take hours. Take days if you have to. Write the list on the
cover of your notebook, on your hand, in an email and send it to yourself, or any other way
that you can think of that would have you thinking about these words in the back of your
mind consistently for days until they really make sense. (at school their assignment would be
to come up with 3 thought provoking metaphors by the next class. Rotating blocks)
Remember you can come up with vivid adjectives by adding -ed or -ing to a verb. This is
called a participle.
2. Now choose 5 nouns and over time choose 1 terrific verb for each one.
3. Now choose 5 verbs and come up with 1 great noun for each. Starting with verbs will be a
different process and might give you strange and interesting results.
4. Choose 5 nouns and find an interesting adjective for each. This is the reverse of step 1.
Don’t forget that participles make great adjectives.
5. Choose 5 nouns and find a great noun to pair with each. You may find expressed identity
metaphors are more difficult. If so, decide what characteristics your noun has and then think
of another different noun that has the same characteristics, but is not similar in nature.
Simile’s Similarity
Simile serves a similar purpose, but isn’t as strong.
In the terms of songwriting, you would use simile in
the place of metaphor if you wanted two concepts
to create the 3rd condition, but retain their own
identities.
Pivotal Resources
Gallagher, Kelly. Deeper Reading. Maine:
Stenhouse Publishers, 2004.
Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We
Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2003.
Pattison, Pat. Writing Better Lyrics. 2nd ed.
Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 2009.