Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance
Metaphor is a poetic device that is used within my book, When the Game Was Ours. "The Terre Haute campus was a cauldron of excitement, with Sycamore mania bubbling over the classrooms, the restaurants, even the city library."(MacMullan, 50). This excerpt contains two metaphors, "was a cauldron of excitement" and "with Sycamore mania bubbling over the classrooms", and these are important to the story as they show the excitement of Sycamore mania, in Indiana State University when Larry Bird was there. This excitement and "Sycamore mania" created more popularity for the school, and Larry, as more and more scouts started showing up to their games. This was of great significance to Larry Bird, as he got drafted to the NBA.
MacMullan, Jackie. When the Game Was Ours. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. Print.
Metaphor is a poetic device that is used within my book, When the Game Was Ours. "The Terre Haute campus was a cauldron of excitement, with Sycamore mania bubbling over the classrooms, the restaurants, even the city library."(MacMullan, 50). This excerpt contains two metaphors, "was a cauldron of excitement" and "with Sycamore mania bubbling over the classrooms", and these are important to the story as they show the excitement of Sycamore mania, in Indiana State University when Larry Bird was there. This excitement and "Sycamore mania" created more popularity for the school, and Larry, as more and more scouts started showing up to their games. This was of great significance to Larry Bird, as he got drafted to the NBA.
Good choice of excerpt from the book as an example of metaphor. To improve you could give another example to show that metaphor isn't used in just one section of the novel.
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