What is a Metaphor? || Literary Device Lectures

This is lesson 2 of 12 short tutorials dedicated to teaching Literary devices and this video explores metaphors.

📚 What is the metaphor's purpose?
📚 How is a metaphor used?
📚 How do we analyse metaphors in an exam-style?

Watch my latest YouTube lesson to find out. Got a friend who’d level-up their intuition and English from watching them — shoot them my @YouTube tutorial link. 👏🏼

This series will help anyone studying GCSE and A-Level English Literature.

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1. He is smaller than a mouses fart.
2. I am a vacant house.
3. I bit power to the core.

1 and 2 are taken from the poetry collection Staying Alive by Bloodaxe Books. 1 is a poem by Rita Ann Higgins and 2 is a poem by P.K. Page

3 is taken from Toni Morrison’s poem, Eve Remembering.

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[greedykefir]

The quality of your videos!!! I can't get along with the fact that this type of neat video has so few views!!! I hope you consider making more poem, novel, or drama explanation videos. Love your explanation

[aliaadiarry]

Thanks a lot for this lovely video, but I have a question,
The princess had been showered with presents. Does the author use in this sentence metaphor?

[itzzzsss]

Never understood metaphors. Use to not socialize as much when in young 20s. It does get confusing and odd

[akshatsinghania]

Perhaps, analysing upon some works of Ted Hughes would be nice, because I like his poems and mostly due to them being in the IGCSE syllabus. Well I have 15 poems, each of them are p good.

The Thought-Fox
The Harvest Moon
The Jaguar
Football at Slack
The Horses
Roe-Deer
Wind
A Memory
Relic
Telegraph
Wires
Hawk
Roosting
Anniversary
Cat and Mouse
The Other
Snowdrop

[mina]

Wow, it helped me a lot I had a lot of confusion with metaphor tysm🤗
Love from Nepal🇳🇵

[atickshahriarantor]

you are great! Thanks from Bangladesh!