Blog Task #4: Extended Metaphor

Discussion Questions

Answer the following set of questions. Pay attention to the keywords in the question stem to plan your
answer, and to the grading indications of each to ensure you are meeting the requirements.

1. Define the term extended metaphor. Research an example to support your answer.
Extended metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things that extended into paragraph with extra
information describing those two unlike things without using like or as. For example: "But soft! What
light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the
envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief."(Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare) From this
example Shakespeare is comparing Juliet to the sun. He didnt use like or as to compare Juliet and the
sun, but describe what he want people to see.

( /2 K / 2 I /1 C)

2. Locate the extended metaphor in chapter 6. Break the metaphor down into smaller symbolic units
below, and next to each symbol, suggest both the meaning of the symbol in relation to the metaphor, as
well as the pertinence to TItas life.

Symbol Textual Evidence Meaning and Connection to Titas life

Birds They could do anything or become
anything. They could turn into
birds and fly into the air! She
would like them to carry her far
away, as far as possible.
Titas hand resemble a bird which can relate to
freedom. Which she gained it when she was free
from Mama Elena.

Cloud Tita thought Titas finger turn into cloud which mean she have
the miracle was actually lift the weight off her hand. She no longer hold the
occurring when she saw her weight of hard work and does suffering from
fingers turning Mama Elena.
into a thin cloud rising to
the sky.

Light She was sitting by the window of The light resemble hope. Hope for freedom and
the doctor's little laboratory in the hope that she would be able to fall in love with
back of the patio behind his another man again.
house. The light that filtered in
through the window struck her
shoulders and provided a faint
sensation of warmth, so slight it
was almost imperceptible.
Matches Unfortunately, she had to admit Matches resemble things that will make a person
that her own matches were damp to be a person again, such as love, music, food,
and moldy. No one would ever be word. These will help lit the matches in each of
able to light another one again. us. For us to have emotion about the world, but
And the saddest thing was that for Tita she thought that no one would be able to
she knew what set off her lit her matches again because of her past.
explosions, but each time she had
managed to light a match, it had
persistently been blown out.
As if reading her thoughts, John
went on:

Leech So John's great-grandmother, Leech represent the new technology to cure

Mary, started preparing some people. Which sometime can cause even more
leeches for bleeding her husband. harm to our body. Tita seem to be interest in this
As she worked, she felt quite new method, too, which this event from the quote
proud of herself for being up-to might happen again.
date with the best scientific
knowledge, which allowed
her to protect her family's health
using an appropriate modern
method-not like "the Kikapu" and
her herbs!

Herb She spent the entire Herb resemble old technology that most of the
afternoon at her father-in-law's world might forgot already. Many people thought
bedside, singing strange melodies that new technology is way better than the old
and applying curing herbs, way. Still sometime the old way is better. Tita
wreathed in the smoke of the should also study about herbs to be able to help
copal and incense she burned. It cure someone that might be important to her.
was well into night before the
bedroom door opened and
she came out, a cloud of incense
surrounding her; behind her
appeared Peter, completely
restored.

( /12 K /6 I /1 C)