beli16 Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 Are your teachers also obsessed about metaphors, similes, oxymorons, alliterations, synecdoches, metonymys...?? here you can discuss about and ask help ! Let me start with a question....what is the figurative language in "women were curing him"...i know it relates to curing...as if it were a medicine but i dont know what it is! FIRE AWAY....hehe isnt that fig language?? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandev Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 What is the full sentence or is that it? I need a bit of context. Anyway it could be something to do with fulfilment etc. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooga Posted October 13, 2007 Report Share Posted October 13, 2007 The word cure is used in a different context. The choice of diction of "cure" is used to emphasize women's care compared to a doctor or nurse. Or maybe women are objects and it's personification because it's "curing" something (kidding) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Posted October 21, 2007 Report Share Posted October 21, 2007 omg my prof is obsessed about metaphors and co. we read some poems which are written completely figuratively and sometimes it can be realy confusing Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceisland Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 I'm having trouble properly terming this one... Would it just be a metaphor?“…all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle” Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soy Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 personification too ?my english teacher gave me this huge list on like all the figurative terms, its like my bible Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruan Chun Xian Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 I'm having trouble properly terming this one... Would it just be a metaphor?“…all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle” Macbeth? It's a metaphor of life as a candle (and all the world's a stage ) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceisland Posted November 3, 2007 Report Share Posted November 3, 2007 Heeey, I am not certain if this is in the right category or not...I'm analyzing Like Water for Chocolate, and I am wondering if juxtaposition would be the proper term to describe the relation between the passing down of tradition and the passing down of recipes. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowday Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Heeey, I am not certain if this is in the right category or not...I'm analyzing Like Water for Chocolate, and I am wondering if juxtaposition would be the proper term to describe the relation between the passing down of tradition and the passing down of recipes.Hey there. Juxtaposition is a fairly broad term, it really only means putting two things side by side. Often in english class, I have been thought that juxtaposition has been used to emphasize contrast. For example, if there is a character that has a few minor flaws, these flaws may be emphasized if there is a really saintly character that is also in the work. Thus, by juxtapositioning the two characters it is possible to emphasize one aspect of one of the characters. However, juxtaposition is not limited to this, and you do not have to juxtapose solely characters; you can juxtapose things like events as well. In reference to your specific situation, I am unsure as to what exactly you are wishing to draw from this connection between the passing down of recipes and the passing down of traditions. If you simply wanted to state that the passing down of recipes is a representation of or epitomizes the passing down of traditions, then I would not consider it juxtaposition. However, if by comparing the two you are able to gain some sort of insight that could not be gained by simply analyzing each one individually, then it may be considered juxtaposition. Having read LWFC, I am leaning more towards the belief that it is not exactly juxtaposition, but it really depends on the context of the analysis.Hope it helps. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandev Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 Juxtapostion can also be used to connect things that are usually seen as opposite or close to, Whitman does this all the time. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
katey~ Posted May 27, 2009 Report Share Posted May 27, 2009 Heeey, I am not certain if this is in the right category or not...I'm analyzing Like Water for Chocolate, and I am wondering if juxtaposition would be the proper term to describe the relation between the passing down of tradition and the passing down of recipes.Juxtaposition would be correct, however it really depends on your teacher's interpretation of the word. My teacher suggested that you use paralell though (I'm doing the same book.Hope that this helps~~~~~ Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleone Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 personification too ?my english teacher gave me this huge list on like all the figurative terms, its like my bibleI've gotta get me one of those!!Does IB survival have one put up?I got some off wikibooks. But honestly they aren't enough. SOY! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilia Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 Juxtaposition would be correct, however it really depends on your teacher's interpretation of the word. My teacher suggested that you use paralell though (I'm doing the same book.Hope that this helps~~~~~Sorry for being stupid, but what's the connection between the recipes and the tradition? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwich Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 Juxtaposition would be correct, however it really depends on your teacher's interpretation of the word. My teacher suggested that you use paralell though (I'm doing the same book.Hope that this helps~~~~~Sorry for being stupid, but what's the connection between the recipes and the tradition?I think it's just that they're both being handed down. Juxtaposition isn't the right word for this scenario. Juxtaposition means putting 2 things right next to each other in order to highlight the contrast between them. They're linked and happening in parallel, yes, but they're not being juxtaposed against each other. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laryxle Posted June 8, 2009 Report Share Posted June 8, 2009 Isn't it that the traditions and recipes are both being passed down, but in the end one stops and the other continues being passed down, so they are juxtaposed in that aspect, in order to highlight the limited nature and relative weakness of human power compared to the power of emotion, love, and to an extent nature, which lives on and doesn't 'die'. To me that's one of the key messages in the book, and that juxtaposition is one of the ways that Esquivel highlights that message. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rrswong Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Our teachers were awesome enough to print all these off for us, there's a couple of pages worth, but it's basically a glossary of literary terms. Hope it helps someone!http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/literature/bedlit/glossary_a.htm 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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