A Night Out (2)

Should she call the police or call someone to give her a ride? She decided to call someone. She took out her cellphone only to find that her battery was dead! Now what? Walking home was out of the question. But she could take a cab. She checked her wallet and found that she only had $5 in cash. And to her horror, her credit card was missing! Then she remembered. She’d ordered something on the Internet and left the card by her computer.

Maybe she could find a convenience store. She could plug in her phone there to charge it. She headed back toward the theater and the lights on Pike Street. She saw a convenience store ahead. Then she saw something familiar. Her car! Relief surged through her. She realized she’d parked on Pike Street not Pine Street! Once again humming a tune from the show, she got into her car and headed home.

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Teaching Topic: Synecdoche 提喻法

When a word is used to mean something other than what it usually means, we call that a metaphor. Metaphors are used to suggest a resemblance or similarity.

That’s right. Metaphors are figures of speech that make languages fun and interesting, because they add visual imagery to what’s been communicated.

Now there’re many different kinds of metaphors. One involves using a part of something to describe all of it, so then what might we use as a metaphor for say a credit card?

Well, there’s not much to a credit card that we could breakdown into parts; it’s mostly made of plastic and ink, right?

Bingo, plastic. A great metaphor to use in place of the word credit card, next time you go shopping, don’t forget to bring your plastic.

All right, here’s another one. If I said to you, “Hey nice threads”, I’ll be talking about your clothes, because clothes are made up of thousands of threads. Threads is a metaphor for clothes.

And finally this classic, when we need to help doing something we often say, “Could you please give me a hand?”

Umm, just a hand? No, the hand is a metaphor for the whole person.

Language Lab
out of the question
not possible or allowed
- Asking my father for money was completely out of the question.

horror n.
a very strong feeling of fear, dread, and shock
- There was a look of horror on her face.
horrible adj.
causing horror : very shocking and upsetting
- He suffered a horrible death.

plug in [phrasal verb] [plugs; plugged; plugging]
to connect (something, such as a lamp or television) to an electrical source or to another device by using a plug
- The microphone isn't plugged in.

surge v.
to suddenly increase to an unusually high level;
to move very quickly and suddenly in a particular direction
surge n.
a sudden, large increase

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