Assignment 6: Metaphor—Nouns and Verbs Choose one of your collisions and expand it into 200–400 words.
Try this one as a monologue, using direct address and present/future tense.
Instead of writing prose, you may alternatively write a full song lyric that includes the same elements: direct address, present/future tenses, sense-bound language, a metaphor collision. The lyric should be at least 24 lines long (as a minimum) and contain at least two different section types (for example, verses and choruses).
Please title your post with the collision you choose, and as usual, focus with your senses.
Offer comments for at least one or two of your classmates’ end-of-week assignments. Check the Assignment 6 tab on Sunday or Monday and see what’s been posted. Perhaps you’ll post a video this week!
When commenting on Assignment 6, consider most or all of these points below. Have fun.
This assignment requested direct address and present/future tense. Has the writer accomplished these goals?
The writer titled their piece with their intended main metaphor. Can you identify this collision in the piece? What parts of speech are at play? Make note of all the words you find that are “in key.”
Can you identify any other metaphors?
Metaphors create an other-worldly quality and add “larger than life” drama. Do you think the writer chose appropriate moments for metaphor? As in, are the metaphors deserved? In your opinion, is there a more exciting moment for metaphor to be utilized?
Make note of any exciting sense bound images that really invite engagement and participation from the reader. Then look closer: are the sense bound moments real…or metaphorical?