READING 5.4 (METAPHOR)

Based on presentation by Izayati Husna, Mufidah and Farahin, their presentation focuses and explaining the relationship between the writer’s choices of metaphor and how these may influence the reader. What is good about this presenter is they can present their topic very good and clearly. Audience can understand it. Metaphor is a word that is used in an imaginative way to show the somebody shares the same qualities. Metaphor plays a key role in enabling us to talk about and construct the word. The presenter said that metaphor play a fundamental role in ordinary. For examples, computer, mp3 and hand phone, however some problems occurred when certain words being approach. Metaphor in discourse is having communication. The metaphor ‘argument is war’ is a specific manifestation of a more general process and the metaphor voted above, in which events and actions are constructed as a physical objects, such as love and personality and power. The reading are very useful because in can able to communicate with other and make sense of world and reflect our personal and culture. But, this group do not touch many critical issue. All the issue only taken from the text.