Metaphor Formula

1. Introduction : That was good job. My name is Lee weren't being IMA coli writer from day no, ohio. I've been doing writing poetry for about six years now. I've been teaching workshops for about four years. And this class, I'm gonna be teaching him my metaphor formula. Now. In this formula you are going to be learning how to create a metaphor from scratch. And what that really means is that a lot of times we are driven by inspiration and in metaphors are such a natural aspect of conceptualizing our reality that we don't really realize how we come up with it. So I'm going to teach you the different components of metaphors and the key thing through a really going to have to know to create a metaphor from scratch. And so writers block will no longer be a thing for you. You have the process to create a metaphor from start to finish. And by the end of this class, you are going to be able to expand on that metaphor and bringing it to life with your right. 2. Class Project : So in order to bring your metaphor to life for this class privately, but I'm gonna guide you through the process of identifying the target, sourced a connotations between them. Danger go into plus those into your metaphor formula by identifying your abstract nouns, can't be nouns and adjectives. That's gonna give you what you need to create a one-line metaphor. They really captures your concept from there. You'll be able to expand on this metaphor by using the word bank that we built throughout this process. 3. What is a Metaphor: So first we have to understand what a metaphor is. The most basic definition of a metaphor than most of us probably learned, is that a metaphor is a comparison between two things without using light or ads. The more in-depth explanation is that a metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action in which he is not literally applicable. So literal versus degree there's length. A metaphor helps the reader understand what the poet means and feels. It also allows the writer to create a verbal picture so that the reader can see their ideas more clear that it is an important tool by means of which we conceptualize our reality and is a part of ordinary, everyday language, which is why it's so easy for us to use metaphor or come up with metaphors are tabu are haha without really understanding the components of how a metaphor is made. And those components consists of a target, a source, a connotations or concepts. And that's what we're going to dive into in this next section. 4. Ingredients: So in our previous video, we talked about how the components to a metaphor are our target, our source, and our connotations. Our target is going to be the concept point, or it's a topic that we wanted to pick, explain, or describe by using a metaphor, then our source is going to be what we are comparing our target too. So we wanna make sure that our source has at least one thing in common with our target. Now that takes us to our connotations are connotations are a network of related meanings, ways in which both objects share meaning, experience, or details. Now, to create the perfect metaphor, we need to know how people understand metaphors in the first place. And this goes into the related meanings between both our target and our source. There is a function of transference that has to take place when it comes to our audience understanding our MOOC. And that is a process of transferring certain quantities from one object to another. So how are we gonna get our audience to take that imaginative leap from our target to our source. And that's going to take a level of understanding personal and cultural meanings and contexts. Personal meanings are rooted in specific person's background, their personal experience, education, autobiographical history, beliefs, knowledge of a particular person, so on and so forth, are cultural meanings, are routed. Culture of a specific society and its values, its norms is knowledge and attitudes, history of society, literature, our pop culture, so on and so forth. Then we come to the aspect of our contexts. The circumstances that formed the setting for an event statement or an idea. And in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. Context also goes into the author, the genre, medium, and surrounding texts. 5. Now you try: Okay, cool. Let's recap and start creating your metaphor for this class project. Okay, first, let's go all the way back to our target. Remember our target is our concept point or topic that we want to get across by using a metaphor. For this class project, I want to target to be about an aspect of nature. Whether they're seasons, animals, plants, whether whatever aspect of nature you can think of creatively and use that to be our foundation for what our metaphor is gonna be about. And you don't want that. Let's go to our next video and talk about our source. Remember our source is what we are comparing our target 2D. For this class project, I want your source to be an emotion or feeling. Now target is an aspect, nature. Our source is an emotion or feeling. Sometimes we can use metaphors to betray how we feel by comparing them to certain pieces of nature to kinda bring a reality to how natural and altering our feelings and emotions can be. And sometimes that can live art a tornado. Sometimes it can look like a cool summer breeze. Remember, our source has to have at least one thing in common, our target. Now that we have our emotion, let's talk about connotations. Remember our condensations is our network of related meanings, ways in which our source and our target share meaning, experience or details. We want to build out this list as long as we came. This is going to fuel our function of transference. How we can transfer certain qualities from one thing to another. How our audience is going to be able to take that leap in their mind of understanding the resemblance of our source and our tart. As a bonus activity when dealing with condensations, I want to introduce you to word association. If son is our aspect of nature and joy is our emotion, let's see how many ways we can associate different words with sun to connect back to joy. Now the first thing that comes to mind for me when I think about sun is light. Now, I can say the light or I can use the slang term delight in cause a double meaning here to say the light. As in Pleasant, referring back to joy and being a double Entente or for saying does buy. Now, when we talk about light, The second thing that comes to mind is writing. Now radiate not only deals with light, a heat, but it also deals with joy. So now we can connect son to light, to radiate, to joy. And these are different words that we can be able to use in our metaphor or crafting our piece so that people can really take that lead to understanding how our motion can Next, our aspect of nature. Now it's time to input our source target and connotations into our metaphor of formula and come out with it. Don't metaphor from scratch. 6. The Formula: Our metaphor formulas gonna consist of identifying or additives, concrete nouns and national matters. Less Darwin are concrete path. Are concrete nouns are gonna be things that we can experience with our five senses. In this case, our concrete now is going to be our target, which reminds him as the sun. Are abstract nouns are going to be things that we can experience with the viruses, ideas, qualities, or a state that is in a concrete form such as emotions. This is going to be our source in this case, which for my example is joy. Now adjectives are going to be our descriptions. Of course, this is going to relate back to our connotation. In this case, my example of descriptions were the lifo and radiant. For this formula, I want you to plug in as many words as you can think of for additives, make sure that your descriptions relate to both your target and your source for your concrete noun, makes sure that all of those relate to your target. You want to make sure that the kind of synonymous or whatever aspect of nature you chose, same with your abstract nouns. You wanna make sure that your list of words or kind of synonymous with the emotion that you chose. Play with word association if you have two. After you finish this, we're gonna move on and put together our basic foundation for what our metaphor looks like. Once you have built out your list of words for each column, I want you to pick three words, one from each column, adjective, a concrete noun, and an abstract noun. Now what should you put them together in your basic metaphor, using 0s or above to tie it all together. In my example, I used the delightful son of joy. Or joy is ready. So as you see of or is, is time Joy and son together. The life or engravings is my connotation that builds that connection to understanding how Joy relates to the Sun. You don't wanna use like or as, because then that would make it a symbol. Evens out. These are very basic examples of metaphor. We can use these to expand on them and bring our metaphors and life. 7. Go be great: Now that you have your basic medical to complete your class project, I want you to use everything that we worked on so far to create a word bank in a brainstorm to expand on that metaphor and bring them metaphor, it's alive. They test it out on a few people to see how they lacking. And that's exactly how you create a dope metaphor from scratch.