Authors use figurative language to give more imagination to the reader and add more imagery to the story. Giving more imagery to the reader they can understand the story and be hooked to the story. I think using figurative language is another tool for authors to hook their readers. Being hooked can let the readers be commited to finish the book, so for authors it is an give and take deal. When any reader finishes the book, that books will be passed on which gives authors the benefit of being famous. Some authors that just want people read his/her books will have the benefit of knowing how people like his/her writing. Personally, reading figurative language is pretty confusing for me because it is totally different from how we talk and speak. Giving imagery and everything is very interesting but these languages can be a total confuse for readers. I just want to say that the effect could be the opposite of what the author thinks. In conclusion, figurative language is helpful in giving imagery but could be a confusion to readers.
List 3 metaphors that you think are really beautiful or interesting.
- "You are the sun in my sky". I really thought this metaphor is interesting because I realized how I always think if someone or something makes my day, I say "you are the sun in my sky" to my self. Most of the time my sun is singing or God showing me everyday how much He loves me. Not only God and singing but also people around such as my family and my lovely friends are the sun in my sky too.
- "She is my East and my West, my compass". This one particularly I thought it was beautiful. This reminded of those romantic movies when they say these phrases that is really romantic and makes us (woman) 's heart melt. It is just so romantic that you can't do anything about it and this metaphor reminded me of one of those phrases thats shows how much the guy loves his wife/girlfriend.
- "Love is a fragile flower opening to the warmth of Spring". This one I just thought there was some kind of moral to it. How I interoperated it was that loving is really painful and needs alot of patience but after all these effort, the result is being an beautiful couple or in this case, flower. More of a extension to this was that nothing can be done without effort.
Find a metaphor for Jesus in the Bible and list the Bible verse.
Mathew 5:13"You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men." This is a verse that Jesus tells us in Mathew telling us to be salt of the earth. Which means to be an important person in role of doing God's work so that people will follow us believing Jesus. Before us, Jesus is already the salt of the earth. Without Him we couldn't have gotten forgiveness of our sins and because of His love we are able to get eternal life. Loving us so much God was able to sacrafice His only son to die on the cross. Jesus having to go through the pain, loved us so much that he was borned to die for us. After that Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to stay with us instead of Jesus. This whole packet, I like to call it the "Trinity Love Packet". Trinity meaning the Holy Spirit, Jesus and God loving us so much giving this big packet of the Bible, love and their forgiveness.
What does this metaphor reveal about God's world and your understanding of it?
This metaphor shows how Jesus is the light of the world and He is always there for us in the dark. My understand of the metaphor above is Jesus telling us we should be like Jesus and try to like him. One the steps would be being a salt of the earth. Something that has to be there for people just like Jesus. We should be there for those who want to believe in Jesus but are confused of their beliefs. We shouldn't loose our saltiness and keep going on because once you are un salty, you can't be used again. In my interoperation the salt is our faith and cooker is God. When we loose faith we can't be used anymore but by gaining more faith, we can be servants of God again. It is just like when the chef thinks the food has no flavor, he/she will put more salt to make it taste good. The food is been given a another chance of being delicious. Just like God always gives us grace.
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