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OG Harris-EzeCareer Dynamics 2014
CONCEPT APPLICATION: METAPHOR
“A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a point is made about one thing by substituting something else that demonstrates a particular quality of the first in a
dramatic way”
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CONCEPT APPLICATION: METAPHOR
• A song “History” that Jay-Z wrote after President Obama won the 2008 presidential election and performed it at one of the inaugural balls. It sustains a metaphor throughout the song which never breaks.
• It’s a song that talks about victory and success and history in the largest, communal sense, but it does it, through metaphors and deeply personal storytelling.
• Song Chorus:
Now that all the smoke is gone And the battle's finally won Victory is finally ours History so long so long, so long
I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.