Lesson 8

Juxploration on analogy metaphor 

Analogy in Juxtaposition
-making familiar
-use in daily conversation to use something same to explain something complex

there are two type of anologies 
1.Logical Analogies
-use similarities in design, structure or function to connect back to the subject

2.Effective Anologies
-emotional resemblance
-the use of an animal to explain a certain characteristic of a person
-more frequently in conversation  to emphrase certain points

ANALOGIES

reasoning or explaining from parallel cases. A simile is an expressed analogy; a metaphor is an implied one. Adjective:analogous

Simile

A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as. See also:

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. A metaphor expresses the unfamiliar (the tenor) in terms of the familiar (the vehicle). When Neil Young sings, "Love is a rose," "rose" is the vehicle for "love," the tenor. (In cognitive linguistics, the terms target and source are roughly equivalent to tenor and vehicle.) Adj.: metaphorical.

i got some nice example of Juxposition [oxymoron]

• rich:money::well:health
• land:river::body:veins
• pig:pork::steer:beef
• small:petite::large:giant
• panel:door::pane:window
• eye:sight::teeth:chew
• hand:elbow::foot:knee
• meow:cat::bark:dog
• baby:adult::puppy:dog
• mitten:hand::sock:foot
• author:story::poet:poetry
• seed:tree::egg:bird
• Edward:Ed::Suzanne:Sue
• four:rectangle::three:triangle
• gas:car::wood:fire
• creek:river::hill:mountain
• plane:hangar::auto:garage
• son:father::daughter:mother
• stem:flower::trunk:tree
• pen:author::brush:artist
• rose:vase::water:pitcher
• heat:furnace::cool:air conditioner
• man:men::sheep:sheep
• boy:shirt::girl:blouse
• sit:sat::bring:brought
• cat:mouse::spider:fly
• knife:cut::pen:write
• lion:cage::book:bookcase

For me, I will like to define what is Anologies and Metaphor. So I done some studies by surfing website. This is my conclusion, despite certain similarities, an analogy is not the same as a metaphor. As Bradford Stull observes in The Elements of Figurative Language (Longman, 2002), the analogy "is a figure of language that expresses a set of like relationships among two sets of terms. In essence, the analogy does not claim total identification, which is the property of the metaphor. It claims a similarity of relationships."

In the following example of an effective analogy, science writer Claudia Kalb relies on the computer to explain how our brains process memories:

Some basic facts about memory are clear. Your short-term memory is like the RAM on a computer: it records the information in front of you right now. Some of what you experience seems to evaporate--like words that go missing when you turn off your computer without hitting SAVE. But other short-term memories go through a molecular process called consolidation: they're downloaded onto the hard drive. These long-term memories, filled with past loves and losses and fears, stay dormant until you call them up.