Lesson 6: Juxtaposition 2

In last week's lecturer had teach about the juxtaposition, it means the placement of two things next to one another. It can be used to describe anything. While in this week's lecture, we had learned that juxtaposition action also can be separate into two, analogy and oxymoron

What is Analogy?

Analogy is to use something familiar to explain a complex matter. As defined an analogy is "reasoning or explaining from parallel cases." Put another way, an analogy is a comparison between two different things in order to highlight some point of similarity.

There are two categories of analogies which is logical analogies and expressed analogy.
- simile
- metaphor

Metaphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. A metaphor expresses the unfamiliar (the tenor) in terms of the familiar (the vehicle ). When Neil Young sings, "Love is a rose," "rose" is the vehicle for "love," the tenor. (In cognitive linguistics, the terms target and source are roughly equivalent to tenor and vehicle.

example : "The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner." (Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")

Simile
A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.

example : "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
(Carl Sandburg)

What is oxymoron

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox

Example : "The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."
(George Will)


source : http://grammar.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=oxymoron&SUName=grammar&TopNode=99


Personal Reflection
The class is ended early today and a bit bored due to the way of lecturer teaching is lack of interactive.