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 * Discussion Groupings**

1. Lingfeng, Bill, Izumi, **Kenneth** ([|Google]Horror) 2. Ben Lim, **Derrick**, Li Ki, Goh Id [] 3. **Edwin**, Kenji, Yong Xiang, Ben Tang [|Horror] 4. **Shi Cheng**, Joel, Sherwin, Clement  [|Google Docs Link] 5. **Ding Han**, Chuanyu, Weidong, Milton  [|(link to Google Docs)] 6. Gideon, Lit Xian, **Kwang Ming**, Shien Yang ([|Google]Life is precious) 7. **Wah Jiang**, Chong We, Han Quan, Yongzhi ([|Link to Google Doc] ) 8. Gordon, **Yi Xiang**, Ying Cong, Jonathan ([|Google Docs] ) Can't access

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 **What is a metaphor?** Definitions of **metaphor** on the Web: > [|kmhs.typepad.com/parrott_ap_english_langua/files/rhetorical_terms.doc]  > [|writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng216/216terms.html]  > [|ks.hinuch.net/web/katza/%D7%9E%D7%A7%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%AA+%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA/%D7%93%D7%A4%D7%99+%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%94/Literary+Terms/]  > [|classiclit.about.com/library/bl-terms/bl-lit-glossary-m.htm]  > [|www.publicspeakingcourse.com/glossaryk-o.htm] <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> > <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|www.thinkport.org/5d8dadfd-d99a-4295-88ce-ca8a39e449ff.asset] <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> > <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0903237.html] <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> > <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|sb169.k12.sd.us/Definitions.htm] <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> > <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|www.sd67.bc.ca/teachers/cterris/Short%20Story%20-%20Literary%20Terms.doc]
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ffff00;">a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn] <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">
 * a figure of speech in which one thing is referred to as another; for example, “my love is a fragile flower”
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ffff00;">A figure of speech "in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two. ...
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ffff00;">a figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike things without the use of words like or as.
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">A comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another dissimilar thing, and transfers or ascribes to the first thing (the tenor or idea) some of the qualities of the second (the vehicle or image). ...
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ffff00;"><span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making a comparison, as in "She is an angel on the platform".
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically different but have something in common; unlike a simile, a metaphor does not contain the words like or as (ie, in the evening of life)
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. ...
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">an implied comparison between two unlike objects or things where one object is stated to be the other object
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">a comparison of two generally unlike things meant to illuminate truth. Direct metaphors use "is" to make the comparison explicit. Implied metaphors suggest the comparison.

__**Who said that metaphors and figures of speech are two different things?**__ Of what good is a metaphor? [|**Check it out!**] For those who want to know the different components of a metaphor: [|Stuff I did at uni (but would prefer to forget)] For those with masochistic tendencies when it comes to doing brain teasers: [|More examples and exercises]