Implied Metaphor

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Implied Metaphor

• FogFire and Ice

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Implied Metaphor

• Implied Metaphor
• A metaphor that does not make a direct comparison
  by telling us that one thing is something else.
• Instead, it suggests or implies the comparison.
• Example of a metaphor
• The moon is a balloon.
• Example of an implied metaphor
• Without a string, the moon drifts across the sky.

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Working in groups, complete these questions about
the poems on pg. 440-441

• Fog
• What does the poet compare the fog to? Cite
  details from the poem to show how you know this.
• What similarities exist between the two items
  being compared?
• Is this a metaphor or an implied metaphor? How do
  you know?

• Fire and Ice
• What two items is the speaker comparing in this
  poem? What two emotions are being compared? What
  similarities do the emotions being compared have?
  
• What does the speaker suggest by discussing the
  two ways the world may end?
• How would the world literally end in ice? How
  would the world literally end in fire?
• What does the speakers statement in line 6 mean?
  
• Define the word desire as it is used in this
  poem.
• Define the word suffice as it is used in this
  poem.