This paper examines the topic of figurative speech, and how it is applied in normal, everyday conversations to convey irony, analogy, rhetorical questions, and others. This five page paper has five sources listed in the bibliography.
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concepts, these elements are extremely useful to the writer. However, one has to pause to wonder how they arose, how they differ and what their actual meanings are. According
to the actual definition of the word, Metaphor, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary states that it is a figurative element in language, having been derived from the French word for transfer(Merriam/Webster, 2002).
Therefore, a metaphor, literally is a figure of speech where a word or a collection of words denote one kind of object or idea and is used in place of
another to suggest a likeness or similarity between them(Merriam/Webster, 2002). An example might be Died of a broken heart or swimming in sin. In modern day terminology, a good example
is Coca-colas television commercial where a Buddhist Monk is sitting in the middle of a soccer field drinking a Coke. "Coke evokes not just feelings of invigoration and
sociability - something its maker has long known and exploited in its ads - but feelings of calm, solitude and relaxation as well. Indeed, the paradoxical essence of Coke is
neatly summed up by the image, taken from an actual ZMET interview, of the Buddhist monk meditating in the crowded soccer field"(Eakin 2002).
In this commercial, the monk probably is not a soccer player, yet the metaphor of the Coke is supposed to suggest excitement, but also a sense
of inner peace about the choice of the Coke. In other words, Coke is a Peaceful escape. Both Simile and Metaphor,
then can be said to be symbolic representations of concepts, ideas or visualizations on the part of the writer. Similes take two words, ideas, concepts and expresses a direct comparison