Why metaphor?

What is the difference between a metaphor and gif?

What amount of conceptualization can be imparted through a symbol versus language alphabets?

How would a sentence of gifs be different than a paragraph of written alphabetic or character sentences?

To learn about METAPHOR in English class. We will look at ancient metaphors, modern metaphors, and discuss their functions and purposes. A study of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” is perfect to introduce the American Modernist English movement that transformed English writing in the twentieth-century. Discussions about gifs vs. written and spoken languages. Discussions about contexts and why people would choose during periods of civilization to write in metaphorical code as well as what metaphorical purposes images had in ancient times and what it may mean about their interlanguage and ways of speaking language. Was it a code or a way of thinking and communication? Explore avenues of mysteries in the literary field, why should you become a literary archeologist? Finally, create your own!

(This lesson is created using “A New Theory of Literary Gracefulness ” by Graciella Caroponis)