3. Comparison
The thing
I Want to
Describe
+
Something my
audience knows
about
=
A metaphor
or
simile
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
4. Comparison
+
=
A hospital bed is a
parked taxi with
the meter running.
Groucho Marx
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
5. Literary Metaphors
All the world’s a stage, and “Memories are bullets. Some “Love is a snowmobile racing
across the tundra and then
all the men and women whiz by and only spook you.
Others=tear you (but and lclose enough)y it flips over, pinning you
open it’s eave suddenl
merely players. They have
metaphors simile
underneath. At night, the ice
you in pieces.”
their exits and their
weasels come.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kil the
entrances.
― Matt Groening, The Big Book
Dead
Wil iam Shakespeare
of Hell: The Best of Life in Hell
6. Hip-hop Metaphors
"I come fresh like your "Throwing out the wicked like God
"My rhymes are like shot clocks,
did the devil,
breath after you brush,
interstate cops
funky like your grandpa's drawers,
wack Mc's metaphors = don't test me,it’s close enough) and blood clots,
simile (but
like that orange soda get we're in like that, you're dead like my point is your flow gets
crushed."
stopped."
Presley."
- Talib Kweli
- Fatlip
- Q-Tip
7. hungry
as a
horse
Cliche
I'm hungry as a
cannibal trapped
hungry
in a van
as a
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
of cantaloupes.
- Earl Sweatshirt.
cetacean
Obscure
9. Turn a Cliche
sweet as sugar
Serious as a heart attack
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
Sweet like licorice, dangerous like
syphil is--Lauryn Hil
10. Turn a Cliche
easy as pie
slept like a log
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
YOU?
11. How do I do this?
Start with your
target
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
A cold morning
12. How do I do this?
COnsider the
possibilities
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
Think about not only what is cold
but how you think about that cold
13. How do I do this?
Reject lameness
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
Abandon cliches (ice, cucumber)
14. How do I do this?
let your mind go
sideways
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
Cold = liquid hydrogen, Alaska, freezer
Cold = the grave, undertaker, corpse
Cold = kil er, Ted Bundy, Voldemort
15. How do I do this?
Your turn
metaphors = simile (but it’s close enough)
The dog is stupid.
