CRWR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aposiopesis, Mimesis, Getting It Right (Film)
13 Mar 2017
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Metaphor: a transfer, especially of the sense of one word to a different word, literally a carrying over from metapherein transfer carry, over; change, alter; to use a word in a strange sense . A metaphor needs only a location in space, but narrative must have a location in time as well. Hope is the thing with feathers - emily dickinson. Vehicle: object lending its traits (e. g. bird") Display window: public for the world to see. Indirect way of saying a thing that cannot be said. Ambitious: to say what we see is to speak figuratively. The first project of simile and metaphor is to describe, to say: figures work together to form networks of sense, figuration is a form of self-portraiture. It"s a kind of perceptual signature, a record of a way of an individual way of seeing: metaphor introduces tension and polarity to language.
