Metaphor and one-off pictures

Abstract

All representational media support tropes. This chapter considers pictures and asks how pictorial metaphors can be devised by people with relatively little experience in the medium. The examples considered are raised-line drawings devised by blind children and adults. In some, the shapes of objects are anomalous but apt. In others the use of a line contrasts with its use in outline drawings – for example, atmospheric lines surround a target object. The blind and sighted concur on the meaning of pictorial metaphors. The theory of metaphor in drawings presented here treats perception, outline, realistic shape and departures from realism. Pictures have primary meanings, and metaphoric pictures require secondary meanings.

Analysis of Figurative Language in Westlife Songs

“…Personification. Kennedy X. (1983) States that personification is the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract nation particularly as a rhetorical figure.…”

“…6. Symbol Kennedy X. (1983) States that Symbol is a sign of some kind (a word or thing) that suggest something outside and beyond itself.…”