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Ellie24 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Metaphor

0Ok, question. My co-worker's daughter had an assignment to find a song with a metaphor in it. Here is the words from the song she chose:02br
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00Living in the shadows of someone else's dream02br
00Trying to find a hand to hold but every touch feels cold to me02br
00Living in the nightmare a never ending sleep02br
00But now that I am wide awake my chains are finally free02br
00Don't feel sorry for me02br
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00Is this a metaphor?? The teacher told her that this was a HORRIBLE metaphor and that she has no idea what a metaphor is. I think it sounds like a metaphor...0-
  

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com02font 02a 00, a metaphor is a direct 05000 between two seemingly unrelated subjects. In a metaphor, a first object is described as 01i 00being02i 00 or 01i 00precisely equal to02i 00 a second object. 02br 02br 00I can't come up with the full lyrics of a song with a metaphor in it.

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  • com02font 02a 00, a metaphor is a direct 05000 between two seemingly unrelated subjects.
  • In a metaphor, a first object is described as 01i 00being02i 00 or 01i 00precisely equal to02i 00 a second object.
  • 02br 02br 00I can't come up with the full lyrics of a song with a metaphor in it.
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0According to 01a01font00www.dictionary.com02font02a00, a metaphor is a direct 05000 between two seemingly unrelated subjects. In a metaphor, a first object is described as 01i00being02i00 or 01i00precisely equal to02i00 a second object. 02br
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0 Thanks, but what about my question? Does the song that I wrote above directly compare between two things? Is that song a good or bad metaphor? I think it works and I think the teacher who said it's a horrible example of a metaphor is wrong. 0-
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0What are the two things that are presumably being directly compared in your song, Anon?02br
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0 The song lyrics in question contain multiple mixed metaphors or metaphoric language but no single consistent metaphor. "shadows" is metaphoric for negative influences, I assume. "nightmare" is metaphoric for terrible times, I assume. "chains" seem to be a reference to some sort of inability to act -- not clear from the context. At any rate, being free from the chains seems to be equa
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0 I think that the line "But now that I am wide awake my chains are finally free" is a great metaphor. 0-
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0 Chains being free is not a metaphor. That gives chains a human character trait so it sounds like personification. 0-
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0The idea is that the person is free of the chains. Presumably, the person was not really in bondage, so it is a metaphor. The chains are not what is free.0-
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0 I definitely agree with grammar geek. It's talking about her chains. The speaker is kind of the subject of the sentence so it is actually saying that she is finally free. But is she really chained up? No. So this is a metaphor. 0-
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0If you want to know who wrote that song, it's called "Shadow" by Ashlee Simpson02br
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01b00"Shadow"02br
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02b00I was six years old02br
00When my parents went away02br
00I was stuck inside a broken life02br
00I couldn't wish away02br
00She was beautiful02br
00She had everythin
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0 Honey, that's a metaphor alright.0-
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