proverb Talk and action are two separate things, and talk does not guarantee action; it is easy to say things or make promises, but it takes much more effort to actually put those words into action.
Contents
- 1 What is the word for saying one thing and doing another?
- 2 Why do I say something and do something else?
- 3 What is it called when you say one thing but mean the opposite?
- 4 When you say one thing but mean the opposite?
- 5 What is it called when you show no emotion?
- 6 What is it called when someone always looks on the bright side?
- 7 What is it called when you refer to something as something else?
- 8 Can you make yourself fall in love?
- 9 What do you call someone who never cries?
- 10 What do you call someone who disregards your feelings?
- 11 What do you call someone who always positive?
- 12 What’s another way to say on the other hand?
- 13 What do you call someone who gives?
- 14 What is it called when you say a phrase to describe something?
- 15 When say something and mean it?
- 16 Do guys fall in love fast?
- 17 Is love a decision or a feeling?
- 18 How do you catch feelings for someone?
- 19 Can you lose the ability to cry?
- 20 Do men cry?
What is the word for saying one thing and doing another?
The noun for someone who says one thing but does another is “hypocrite.” The adjective form is “hypocritical.”
Why do I say something and do something else?
A person saying one thing and doing the opposite is today described as a hypocrite, a word that is now imbued with pejorative connotations.The key to the meaning of this word is degree, as it contains in meaning a vast number of synonyms from a mild ‘faker’to a stronger’fraud’.
What is it called when you say one thing but mean the opposite?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes.
When you say one thing but mean the opposite?
Irony is “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.”
What is it called when you show no emotion?
having or showing little or no emotion: apathetic behavior. not interested or concerned; indifferent or unresponsive: an apathetic audience.
What is it called when someone always looks on the bright side?
Optimist is a person who looks at the bright side of life.
What is it called when you refer to something as something else?
Metaphor and simile are ways of saying what something is by saying what it is like.(Note: metaphor and simile are pretty much the same. Metaphor says: Something IS something else. ‘He was an elephant.
Can you make yourself fall in love?
YES: “You can make yourself deliberately fall in love with someone you presently like but do not really love, but not easily.But if you work hard at convincing yourself that another person has uniquely outstanding traits and will lead you to certain bliss, you may fall in love with him or her.
What do you call someone who never cries?
Some people with anhedonia, especially anhedonic depression, do notice they can no longer cry easily — or at all.
What do you call someone who disregards your feelings?
You call that person “a cold-hearted person” as it means: Without sympathy, feeling or compassion; callous or heartless. [ Wiktionary] Or you can call him “an unfeeling person”: Without emotion or sympathy. [
What do you call someone who always positive?
optimistic Add to list Share. An optimistic person thinks the best possible thing will happen, and hopes for it even if it’s not likely. Someone who’s a tad too confident this way is also sometimes called optimistic.
What’s another way to say on the other hand?
What is another word for on the other hand?
| contrastingly | instead |
|---|---|
| on the flip side | however |
| on the other side of the coin | contrarily |
| oppositely | nevertheless |
| nonetheless | that said |
What do you call someone who gives?
giver. noun. someone who gives, especially to charity.
What is it called when you say a phrase to describe something?
Simile is when two things are compared using the words like or as, as in “cheeks as red as roses” or “hair like fire”; metaphor is when a word or phrase that literally means something else is used figurative in order to describe another thing, as in “drowning in debt.” Many people claim that hyperbole, simile, and
When say something and mean it?
People who say things facetiously are being a little bit sarcastic, saying one thing and meaning another, or treating a serious subject in a funny way.
Do guys fall in love fast?
A new study found men actually fall in love quicker than women, and the reason could be biological. A study of 172 college students found men reported falling in love earlier than women and expressing that sentiment first.But it actually doesn’t matter who falls in love fastest.
Is love a decision or a feeling?
Love is a decision. Action follows emotion. Love comes from the underlying emotions we feel for another human being.Making the decision to love includes the everyday, little things that you often do for one another, especially when you’re not feeling loving.
How do you catch feelings for someone?
Here are 10 of the easiest ways to make him chase you in a loving, caring way.
- Talk to him about intimate details of your life, and ask him about his.
- Show him your vulnerable side.
- Hold eye contact.
- Make a nice meal for him.
- Back off if you think he’s taking you for granted.
- Use a Pavlovian training method.
Can you lose the ability to cry?
Everyone is different and some people find it easier to tear up than others. So don’t waste energy on what you should be doing. Drop the shame and allow yourself to truly feel your current emotions. Some people may cry at the drop of a hat.
Do men cry?
According to his findings women cry between 30 and 64 times a year, and men only cry between six and 17 times each year.According to her, men do have less of the hormone that enables humans to cry emotional tears, and when men do, society judges them.
What is the word for saying one thing but meaning another?
Irony is “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.” Sarcasm usually employs irony and a very nasty sneer. Left without the sneer, you have irony. If your listener isn’t subtle, the irony might be lost on him.
What literary device is referring to something without directly naming it?
Metonymy
What is it called when an author describes something?
Imagery is when an author describes a scene, thing, or idea so that it appeals to our senses (taste, smell, sight, touch, or hearing). Metaphors are when ideas, actions, or objects are described in non-literal terms. In short, it’s when an author compares one thing to another.
What are 5 poetic devices?
Poetic DevicesAlliteration.Assonance.Imagery.Metaphor.Onomatopoeia.Personification.Refrain.Rhyme.
What are the 16 literary devices?
Terms in this set (16)Aphorism. expresses an opinion or original thought; proverb; words to live by.Paradox. self contradicting statement but expresses the truth.Allusion. an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to another part of the text.Archetype. Antithesis. Red Herring. Mood. Foreshadow.
What are the 9 literary devices?
Terms in this set (24)Metaphor. A figure of speech founded on resemlance eg. Hypebole. Exaggeration; a figure of speech exceeding truth.Onomatapoeia. The formation of words by imitation of sounds eg. Simile. A figure of speech consisting in likening one thing to another. Analogy. Personification. Alliteration. Foreshadowing.
What are the 8 literary elements?
The 8 elements of a story are: character, setting, plot, conflict, theme, point-of-view, tone and style. These story elements form the backbone of any good novel or short story. If you know the 8 elements, you can write and analyze stories more effectively.
How many literary devices are there?
31 Literary Devices
What is a literary technique?
Literary techniques are specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text.
What is the literary device characterization?
Characterization is a writer’s tool, or “literary device” that occurs any time the author uses details to teach us about a person. This is used over the course of a story in order to tell the tale.
What is literary devices in English?
What are literary devices? Literary devices are various elements and techniques used in writing that construct the whole of your literature to create an intended perception of the writing for the reader. You probably remember learning about literary devices like personification, foreshadowing, and metaphors in school.
What are the 4 literary devices?
While hundreds of literary devices have been created, some of the most common are:Allusion.Diction.Epigraph.Euphemism.Foreshadowing.Imagery.Metaphor/Simile.Personification.
How do you identify poetic devices?
ObjectivesIdentify six poetic devices: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and simile.Determine the purpose of poetic devices as either emphasizing meaning or the sound of words.Respond to a journal entry.Transfer learning while becoming the “teacher” of an assigned poetic device.
Is a metaphor a literary device?
A metaphor is a literary technique where one thing is compared to another by stating they share the same qualities. In contrast, a metaphor is not suggesting something is like something else. Rather, a metaphor states that the thing is something else. For example, “life is like a journey” is a simile.
What is metaphor in literary device?
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. Here are the basics: A metaphor states that one thing is another thing.
It depends.
If it is intentional, it could be called deceit, lying, misleading, mendacity, etc etc.
Otherwise it could be a slip of the tongue (parapraxis)where a word is accidentally replaced by another. In a sexual (or otherwise nervous) setting, a slip of the tongue can be called a Freudian Slip. eg saying «I have to wash his balls» instead of «I have to wash his smalls»
It can also be innuendo, whereby ones says something which is apparently innocent but means something else, usually of a sexual nature eg What does it mean if someone says to a pretty market stallholder «Can I feel your melons?»
It can be metaphor, where a difficult idea is expressed in simple or picturesque terms eg «It’s raining cats and dogs» to mean «Its raining heavily».
It can be euphemism, where the word(s) used substitute for other words or ideas that are being avoided, for reasons of sensitivity, secrecy, etc.
It can be hyperbole, (exaggeration) where the truth is stretched for emphasis eg «I’ve told you a million times not to do that» when you mean «I’ve told you many times»
It can be metonym, where a simple idea is used to represent a larger concept eg the White House to represent the US presidency. You might say «The White House is debating the war» when you mean «The Presidency is discussing the war».
It can be slang. A Londoner might say «Where’s my trouble and strife» when he means «Where’s my wife»
It can be a malapropism where a word is accidentally replaced by a similar sounding one eg «I can say without fear of contraception..» instead of «I can say without fear of contradiction..»
It can be a spoonerism, where the initial letters of two words are swapped eg saying «Its roaring with pain» instead of «Its pouring with rain»
This time last year I posted an extract from Steven Pinker, in which he compared reading the word “stimulus” in an academic text to the phrase “tapping on the wrist”, which was what it actually meant. Pinker is one of the best examples I know of a scientist in the top-right quadrant of the “meaning curve”. Another is Richard Feynman, surely one of the most infectiously curious people who has ever lived. It’s impossible to watch a video of the man talking without being struck by how his passion for understanding reality was only matched by his passion for sharing that understanding with other people.
Here’s a story from Feynman’s life that sums it up perfectly1 Midway through his career he spent a year teaching physics in Brazil, and was struck by how much “book knowledge” the students had, without really knowing anything at all. At the end of the year the students asked him to deliver a lecture on his experience, and when he found out how many senior academics and government officials were going to attend, he said he would only do it on condition that he was free to say whatever he liked. On the day, the staff became nervous when they realised that Feynman was carrying the elementary physics textbook around as though it was going to be the main subject of his lecture, when the man who had written it was in the audience. “You’re not going to say anything bad about the textbook, are you?” Someone said. “Everybody thinks it’s a good textbook”.
Halfway through the lecture Feynman held the textbook up. “I have discovered something … by flipping the pages at random, and putting my finger in and reading the sentences on that page, I can show you what’s the matter …”
And so he flicked through, stuck his fingers in at random, and started reading:
“‘Triboluminescence: Triboluminescence is the light emitted when crystals are crushed.’
“And there, have you got science? No! You have only told what a word means in terms of other words. You haven’t told anything about nature – what crystals produce light when you crush them, why they produce light. Did you see any student go home and try it? He can’t.
“But if, instead, you were to write, ‘When you take a lump of sugar and crush it with a pair of pliers in the dark, you can see a bluish flash. Some other crystals do that too. No one knows why. The phenomenon is called “triboluminescence”.’ Then someone will go home and try it. Then there’s an experience of nature.”
I love that phrase: “You have only told what a word means in terms of other words.” What percentage of the management consultancy industry could be summed up with that sentence? When he died in 1988, someone took a photograph of Feynman’s blackboard; notice what’s written in the top left corner:
“What I cannot create I do not understand.” If words don’t connect to your experience then they’re just sound. Standing this on its head you get the basic formula for meaning-making: Find a shared experience, preferably one that will pique people’s curiosity, and connect your concept to that experience. If the shared experience doesn’t exist then you need to create it. Crush the sugar. Tell a story. Do a demonstration. If you can’t, then you aren’t making meaning, you’re just “saying what one word means in terms of other words.”
- . This story is from the chapter entitled ‘O Americano, Outra Vez’ in part 4 of the outrageous (and outrageously entertaining) collection of reminiscences that is Surely you’re joking, Mr Feynman – adventures of a curious character.
Presentation on theme: «FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Saying one thing, and meaning another… Engaging Imagination.»— Presentation transcript:
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FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Saying one thing, and meaning another… Engaging Imagination
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FIGURES OF SPEECH — WHY? They allow us to say something more vividly and forcefully than saying something directly. Any way of saying something other than the ordinary way In other words, saying one thing, and meaning another… Language that cannot/should not be taken literally
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DO NOT TAKE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE LITERALLY… FOR INSTANCE: …from Sound and Sense Let us assume that your brother has just come in out of a rainstorm and you say to him, “Well, you’re a pretty sight! Got slightly wet, didn’t you?” And he replies, “Wet? I’m drowned! It’s raining cats and dogs, and my raincoat’s like a sieve!” You’ve been saying less than what you mean, or more, or something other than what you mean…taken literally, it is nonsense… however
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THE NONSENSE… “Well, you’re a pretty sight!” — You mean the opposite. “Got slightly wet, didn’t you?” – This is understatement to exaggerate. And he replies, “Wet? I’m drowned!” – yet he isn’t, or he wouldn’t be speaking “It’s raining cats and dogs…” – If THAT’s true OUCH! “…and my raincoat’s like a sieve!” -No one would wear a hole-filled “sieve” and think that of it as a raincoat…
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SIMILE AND METAPHOR – A MEANS OF COMPARING THINGS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY UNLIKE TO EMPHASIZE THE WAYS THAT THEY ARE ALIKE SIMILE – The comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrase such as like, as, than, similar to, resembles, or seems. METAPHOR –The comparison is not expressed but is created when a figurative term is substituted for or identified with the literal term. …See “The Guitarist Tunes Up” p. 70
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“THE GUITARIST TUNES UP” The Guitarist: (Similes) Negative comparison – “Not as a lordly conqueror” (it says the guitarist is not like that) Positive comparison – “as a man with a loved woman” (it says the guitarist is like this) The Guitar: Metaphor “a loved woman” Similarities: the curved shape, the capacity to utter sweet sounds, responsiveness to the man’s touch, and the way they’re both approached by the man – with “attentive courtesy” The comparisons are tied together by one word: ________ (a pun) (1) to play music, and (2) to engage in sexual play
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METAPHORS – 4 FORMS – THE FIRST 2… 1. Both the literal and figurative terms are named 2. The literal term is named and the figurative term is implied. Example – “The Hound” pp. 70-71 “life” literal term “hound” figurative term
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METAPHORS, CONTINUED 3. The literal term is implied and the figurative term is named. 4. Both the literal AND figurative terms are implied. See “It sifts from Leaden Sieves” pp. 72-73
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“IT SIFTS FROM LEADEN SIEVES” (72-73) Subject: Snow (represented by the pronoun, “it”) (Snow is not directly named anywhere in the poem.) Developed through a series of metaphors: “it powders all the wood” – like flour “alabaster wool” “fleeces” “celestial veil” “leaden sieves” refers to the darkened sky or clouds from which the snow is falling Kitchen sieves in Dickinson’s time were tin, so substituting “leaden” with its connotation of heaviness and darkness in the weather rather than the lighter, shinier connotation of tin emphasizes the heavy tone & mood. “Face” metaphor for a natural surface, but faces are seldom “even”, “unwrinkled Forehead” – this is a special face “wool” as a metaphor for snow suggests softness and whiteness, but… “Alabaster” as an adjective brings in the additional comparison making the snow whiter and giving it a surface crustiness or hardness The harvested field of “Stump, and Stack—and Stem” is metaphorically compared to a room once inhabited (before the harvest) by a personified summer but now “empty” (no longer filled with growing grain) The “Artisans” are snowflakes, the ghostlike weavers of the fleeces, veils, ruffles, and laces. At the end of the poem, the snowflakes stop falling, but their creation – variegated designs of snow on the ground – remains.
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APOSTROPHE Addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said. “Bright Star” by John Keats, p.76
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“BRIGHT STAR” BY JOHN KEATS One of Keats’ finest sonnets Complex use of apostrophe This address to the star emphasizes its “steadfast” permanence in contrast to the speaker’s cherished but fleeting moment of romantic happiness as he lies next to his sleeping lover. Speaker insists he doesn’t want the isolation of the star like a hermit (a “sleepless Eremite”) Lyrical language suggest envy on poet’s part – i.e. alliteration of l- and n- sounds in line 2 “Not in lone splendor hung aloft the night” – emphasizes majesty of the situation Lines 5-8 portray the star as a serene perceiver of a world purified by waters In Contrast: Speaker lies “in a sweet unrest” (this shift is the key line in the poem) which suggests both 1) creaturely happiness, and 2) intellectual dissatisfaction knowing passion can’t last. The contrast suggests a favorite Keats theme: passion vs. permanence
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WHY USE FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE? A more effective means of saying what we mean than directly stating it. More impact 1. Gives Imaginative Pleasure – allows the mind to “leap” 2. Make the abstract concrete, bring in imagery, appeal to senses 3. Add emotional intensity and conveys attitudes, not just provide info. 4. Concentrated – saying a lot in a few words (MacBeth’s description of life as a “brief candle” suggests truths about life that would take dozens of words in literal language to describe)
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IMPORTANT — ANALYSIS Decide what is accomplished by use of the figurative language. This is just as important as identifying the figurative language.. Must be able to respond to figurative language. Try, practice, try some more. Use your imagination. Take the risk of possibly interpreting incorrectly.
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“I TASTE A LIQUOR NEVER BREWED” Extended metaphor to express poet’s love of nature Likens ecstasy of experience to intoxication Liquor is the “air” and “dew” of nature “inns of Molten Blue” are blue summer skies Poet says she will outdrink her drinking companions – birds and butterflies – and make such a spectacle of herself even the saints and seraphs will come to heaven’s windows to see what the ruckus is all about – and they’ll see her leaning drunkenly against a celestial lamppost. Spirited metaphors keep the poem light-hearted, high-spirited
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“METAPHORS” Speaker is a pregnant woman Loaf = growing fetus “fat purse” = her belly, swollen as if she’d eaten a bag of green apples “red fruit” “yeasty rising” “new money” = unborn child “ivory” = the child’s skin “fine timbers” = baby’s delicate bones “train” = pregnancy “nine syllables” = nine months of pregnancy (poem has nine lines, each line has nine syllables)
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“DREAM DEFERRED” P. 87 Dream = full and equal participation of blacks and whites in the political and economic freedoms that are supposedly guaranteed by The Consitution Metaphors, because they are more condensed than similes, are more “explosive” & have more impact as a result Metaphor = comparison between black frustration and a bomb (representing a race riot or even an armed revolution) Italics to emphasize the poem’s most violent image is appropriately placed at the end of the poem with the question “Or does it explode?”