Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Figurative Language: Metaphor & Hyperbole

List one example from the play of each type of figurative language:

1. Metaphor
2. Hyperbole

Hints:

  • Review the definitions of the terms above by clicking on the hyperlinks.
  • Look in the stage directions at the beginning of Act II (listed below) for an example of metaphor.  
  • Look in the dialogue between John and Elizabeth below for an example of hyperbole.



The common room of Proctor’s house, eight days later.
At the right is a door opening on the fields outside. A fireplace is at the left, and behind it a stairway leading upstairs. It is the low, dark, and rather long living room of the time. As the curtain rises, the room is empty. From above, Elizabeth is heard softly singing to the children. Presently the door opens and John Proctor enters, carrying his gun. He glances about the room as he comes toward the fireplace, then halts for an instant as he hears her singing. He continues on to the fireplace, leans the gun against the wall as he swings a pot out of the fire and smells it. Then he lifts out the ladle and tastes. He is not quite pleased. He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot. As he is tasting again, her footsteps are heard on the stair. He swings the pot into the fireplace and goes to a basin and washes his hands and face, Elizabeth enters.



Elizabeth: What keeps you so late? It’s almost dark.
Proctor: I were planting far out to the forest edge.
Elizabeth: Oh, you’re done then.
Proctor: Aye, the farm is seeded. The boys asleep?
Elizabeth: They will be soon.
And she goes to the fireplace, proceeds to ladle up stew in a dish.
Proctor: Pray now for a fair summer.
Elizabeth: Aye.
Proctor: Are you well today?
Elizabeth: I am.
She brings the plate to the table, and, indicating the food:. It is a rabbit.
Proctor, going to the table: Oh, is it! In Jonathan’s trap?
Elizabeth: No, she walked into the house this afternoon; I found her sittin’ in the corner like she come to visit.
Proctor: Oh, that’s a good sign walkin’ in.
Elizabeth: Pray God. It hurt my heart to strip her, poor rabbit.
She sits and watches him taste it.
Proctor: It’s well seasoned.
Elizabeth, blushing with pleasure: I took great care. She’s tender?
Proctor: Aye.
He eats. She watches him. 
I think we’ll see green fields soon. It’s warm as blood beneath the clods.
Elizabeth: That’s well.
Proctor eats, then looks up.
Proctor: If the crop is good I’ll buy George Jacob’s heifer. How would that please you?
Elizabeth: Aye, it would.
Proctor, with a grin: I mean to please you, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth - it is hard to say: I know it, John.
He gets up, goes to her, kisses her. She receives it. With a certain disappointment, he returns to the table.
Proctor, as gently as he can: Cider?
Elizabeth, with a sense of reprimanding herself for having forgot: Aye!
She gets up and goes and pours a glass for him. He now arches his back.
Proctor: This farm’s a continent when you go foot by foot droppin’ seeds in it.
Elizabeth, coming with the cider: It must be.
Proctor, drinks a long draught, then, putting the glass down: You ought to bring some flowers in the house.
Elizabeth: Oh! I forgot! I will tomorrow.
Proctor: It’s winter in here yet. On Sunday let you come with me, and we’ll walk the farm together; I never see such a load of flowers on the earth.
With good feeling he goes and looks up at the sky through the open doorway. 
Lilacs have a purple smell. Lilac is the smell of nightfall, I think. Massachusetts is a beauty in the spring!
Elizabeth: Aye, it is.


28 comments:

  1. The metaphor in this text is the soup being compared to Proctor's marriage. He tastes the soup, and is not pleased, so he adds some spices. In the real relationship the soup is his marriage to Elizabeth, and the spice would be Abigail.

    The Hyperbole in the story is the exaggeration of the land. Proctor says that his land is a continent when you walk across it by foot, planting seeds by hand.

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  2. The metaphor in this story is when John Proctor adds some salt to the soup. The soup represents John and Elizabeth's relationship, not quite satisfying to him. So Proctor adds some salt, which represents Abigail, to add some spice in his life.

    The hyperbole in this story is when Proctor says, "This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot droppin' seeds in it." This is an obvious exaggeration because everyone knows his farm isn't the size of a continent.

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  3. The metaphor in the stage directions is takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot. And a hyperbole is "This farm’s a continent when you go foot by foot droppin’ seeds in it."

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  4. The metaphor in act 2 of The Crucible is "It is the low, dark, and rather long living room of the time." The hyperbole is "This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot droppin' seeds in it."

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  5. "I never see such a load of flowers on the earth." This is a hyperbole because he is exaggerating about flowers.

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  6. the metaphor in the stage directions is comparing their relationship with the bitter soup. so he adds a spice to the soup, as he does the relationship.
    "It’s warm as blood beneath the clods." this is the hyperbole. he saying the weather is getting warm.

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  7. "Then he lifts out the ladle and tastes. He is not quite pleased. He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot." In the metaphor he is comparing his relationship to the soup. He adds the salt to make the soup better and adds Abigail to his life to make it better. "This farm’s a continent when you go foot by foot droppin’ seeds in it." This is a hyperbole because the farm is not really a continent.

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  8. The metaphor is when John is not satisfied with the soup so he adds salt to it. In their relationship he is obviously not satisfied so he adds a little salt, Abigail.
    The hyperbole is when Elizabeth says the rabbit came in the house "like she was going to stay for dinner."

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  9. Metaphor:Then he lifts out the ladle and tastes. He is not quite pleased. He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot. As he is tasting again, her footsteps are heard on the stair.
    This is a metaphor because the salt represents Abigail and the pot is his relationship with Elizabeth. He is trying to say that Elizabeth doesn't please him but Abigail does.
    Hyperbole:This farm’s a continent when you go foot by foot droppin’ seeds in it.
    This is a hyperbole because it say's that the farm seems so big when you are walking and dropping seeds in the ground.

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  10. Metaphor: "It is the low, dark, and rather long living room of the time." The previous quote is an example of a metaphor. This is comparing color and length to a period of time.


    Hyperbole:"This farm’s a continent when you go foot by foot droppin’ seeds in it." The previous quote was an example of a hyperbole. This is an over exaggeration of the farm's size.

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  11. "It’s warm as blood beneath the clods". Is an example of hyperbole.


    Then he lifts out the ladle and tastes. He is not quite pleased. He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot. Is basically a reference of him dropping Abigail into him and his wife lives to make it better, because he is not pleased with just his wife.

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  12. The metaphor is, "He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot." The soup represents their marriage, and the salt represents Abigail.

    The hyperbole is, "I think we’ll see green fields soon. It’s warm as blood beneath the clods." He is exaggerating how hot the weather is.

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  13. The metaphor for this is " He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot." The "soup" represents Johns and Elizabeth's marriage and the "salt" represents Abigail.

    The hyperbole is "I think we’ll see green fields soon. It’s warm as blood beneath the clods." Proctor is exaggerating how hot the weather is outside.

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  14. The metaphor of this statement, "Then he lifts out the ladle and tastes. He is not quite pleased. He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot. As he is tasting again, her footsteps are heard on the stair. He swings the pot into the fireplace and goes to a basin and washes his hands and face, Elizabeth enters." means his relationship with his wife was dull and tasteless, until he starts to see Abigail, them his relationship got better with a little "salt".

    The example of the hyperbole from this sentence, "I think we’ll see green fields soon. It’s warm as blood beneath the clouds." means he was exaggeration how hot it is.

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  15. Hyperbole- "I found her sittin on the corner, like she come to visit."

    This obviously cannot be taken seriously since animals, while having instinct, are not smart enough to purposely visit a humans house.


    Metaphor- "Lilac is the smell of nightfall"

    You cannot actually smell nightfall however you can smell things that remind you of it.

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  16. Metaphor: "He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot."
    The pot represents their marriage and the salt represents Abigail.

    Hyperbole: "I think we’ll see green fields soon. It’s warm as blood beneath the clods."
    He exaggerates how hot the weather is.

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  17. Metaphor: "The reaches to a cupboard takes a pinch of salt and drops it into the pot"
    The salt represents Abigail and the pot represents their marriage.

    Hyperbole: I think well see green fields soon. Its warm as blood beneath the clods."
    He exaggerates how hot the weather is.

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  18. Metaphor: "He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it in."
    Hyperbole: "This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot droppin' seeds in it."

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  19. The metaphor is : "He reaches into the cupboard takes a pinch of salt and drops it into the pot." The pot is about there marriage and the salt represents Abaigail.

    The Hyperbole is : "I think we'll see the green fields soon. Its warm as blood beneath the clods." Proctor is exaggerating about the outside weather saying its hot outside.

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  20. "I never see such a load of flowers on the earth." I say this is a hyperbole he is over exaggerating about the flowers, he acts like he has never seen big flowers.

    Metaphor:"He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into the pot." Its like the soup represents their marriage, and the salt represented Agagail.

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  21. Hyperbole: I never see such a load of flowers on the earth.
    Hes exaggerating about how many flowers there were.

    Metaphor: He reaches to a cupboard takes a pinch of salt and drops it into the pot.
    Hes comparing the salt to Abigail and the pot to his marriage.

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  22. The metaphor in this story is when John Proctor adds some salt to the soup. The soup represents John and Elizabeth's relationship, not quite satisfying to him.
    The hyperbole in this story is when Proctor says, "This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot dropping seeds in it."

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  23. The metaphor in this story is when John Proctor adds some salt to the soup. The soup represents John and Elizabeth's relationship, not quite satisfying to him.
    The hyperbole in this story is when Proctor says, "This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot dropping seeds in it."

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  24. For the metaphor, Proctor is using the soup to compare it to his marriage. He says it tastes bitter so he sprinkles a little salt in itto make it better. The salt was referring to Abigail.
    The Hyperbole was "This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot dropin' seeds in it."

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  25. Metaphor:He reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it in.
    Hyperbole: This farm's a continent when yo go foot by foot droppin seeds in it.

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  26. 1. The metaphor is he reaches to a cupboard, takes a pinch of salt, and drops it into a pot.

    2. The hyperbole is I think we'll see green fields soon. It's warm as blood beneath the clods.

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  27. The metaphor is when John is not satisfied with the soup so he adds salt to it. In their relationship he is obviously not satisfied so he adds a little salt, Abigail.
    The hyperbole is when Elizabeth says the rabbit came in the house "like she was going to stay for dinner."

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  28. The metaphor is when John is not satisfied with the soup so he adds salt to it. In their relationship he is obviously not satisfied so he adds a little salt, Abigail.The Hyperbole in the story is the exaggeration of the land. Proctor says that his land is a continent when you walk across it by foot, planting seeds by hand.

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