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Weird Metaphors
Throughout this first semester of American Literature, a pair of bizarre metaphors have stuck with me for their singular strangeness. Good figures of speech work because they connect a new experience...
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What Was the Mark of the Curse in the Book of Mormon?
A comment on a news article last week called the Book of Mormon racist because of its references to dark skin in conjunction with a curse. I responded with the usual explanation: the curse is...
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Teaching Metaphors
I find that most students, at first, want to call any old description a metaphor. After I give a definition and examples, when I ask for their own examples, they give me things like, “The dog is old.”...
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