Monday, 20 June 2011

Poem, Symbol & Metaphors

Poem :  A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; distinguishable from prose.


Symbol : The @ symbol is known by various different names in English, including "at sign","at the rate", "at symbol", "at mark", "commercial at", "ampersat" and "asperand". The at sign (@), also called the at symbol. Something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, oftensomething immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. A letter, figure, or other character or mark or a combinationof letters or the like used to designate something: thealgebraic symbol x; the chemical symbol Au. A word, phrase, imageor the like having a complex ofassociated meanings and perceived as having inherent valueseparable from that which is symbolized as being part of that which is symbolized and as performing its normalfunction of standing for or representing that which is symbolized usually conceived as deriving its meaning chieflyfrom the structure in which it appears, and generally distinguished from a sign.


                                                          Example of Symbols









Metaphors : metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea. Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance. In this broader sense, antithesishyperbolemetonymy and simile would all be considered types of metaphor. A rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Typically, a first object is described as being a second object. In this way, the first object can be economically described because implicit and explicit attributes from the second object can be used to fill in the description of the first. 

                                                          Example of Metaphors





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