R&J Notes II

Direct Metaphor:
a direct comparison between two things

Example of director metaphor from the play:
"How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable/ seem to me all the uses of the world?! 'tis an unweeded garden/ that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature/ process it merely."


Implied Metaphor:
An indirect or subtle comparison between two things: it gives the subject the characteristics of the object it it being


Example of implied metaphor from the play:
"The yellow fog that rubs it back upon the window-panes,

The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle upon the window-panes,

Licked its tongue into the corners of even

Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,

Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,

SLipped by the terrance, made a sudden leap,

And seeing it was soft October evening

Curled once about the house, and fell asleep."

Extended Metaphor:
a metaphor that is extended throughout a speech, a passage, or throughout an entire story, novel, or play. It is longer than one line.


Example:
In Hamlet, the garden that Hamlet speaks about in his first soliloquy is an extended metaphor (it is also a symbol and an implied allusion). 

"I'm a riddle in nine syllables

An elephant, a ponderous house

A melon strolling on two tendrils

O red fruit, ivory fine timbers

This loaf's big with its yeasty rising

Money's new-minted in this fat purse

I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.

I've eaten a bag of green apples.

Boarded the train and there's no getting off."

PREGO!


PLOT OUTLINE

Exposition:
Prologue  

Inciting Event:
BOAT METAPHOR

Rising Action:

Meets Juliet!