Metaphor/Simile

Simile

• “like” or “as”• Her hair, golden as the sun, cascaded…

Metaphor

• met·a·phor•    [met-uh-fawr, -fer] Show IPA • noun 1. a figure of speech in which a term or

phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”

• The Beatrice Letters, "The day was as cold and bitter as hot chocolate as if it had been put in a fridge for several hours and filled with vinegar.“

• “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”

…William Butler Yeats

• “ Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”

…Samuel Butler, English Poet

• “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.”

…Anonymous

• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

… Saint Augustine

Obvious Visual Reference

Time

“My Life”

“Society Cake”

My first day of high school--sad and friendless, a young, flightless bird in the middle of a desert.

Can a person be a metaphor?

You will create a visual metaphor for yourself (medium: collage).

The challenge is to create a meaningful work that makes your viewers think!