Introductory Metaphor Rhetorical Analysis

You’ve likely used metaphors (and other non-literal comparisons) since you were five or six years old. And at some point you received (from a middle-school teacher?) some rules for use of metaphors. Should you believe those rules? Do you know how a metaphor-driven message intrigues and invites an audience? How, and why, do we use metaphors? Which types of metaphors are of high importance to understand how metaphors operate in our language? This publication introduces new, or early, critics to technical analysis terms, practices and insights which provide access to the work of metaphor rhetorical analysis in public messages. Communication, Rhetoric, Fine Arts, Marketing, Political Science, Sociology, and Anthropology students (among others) interested in careful analysis of cultural public messages will gain from learning metaphoric concepts, terms, and analysis examples in this work. Which metaphors create the greatest insight for with you? Why? Let’s learn together.