Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition was a strange word for me, this is the first time I know about this word. Based on our lecturer, Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variable, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition. By juxtaposing two objects or words next to each other, human brain will automatically associate or transfer meaning. Usually 'turning' something familiar to something less familiar or vice versa. Below is the slide given in the lecture...

Analogy is a cognitive process of transferring information from a particular subject (the analogue or source) to another particular subject (the target), and a linguistic expression corresponding to such a process. In a narrower sense, analogy is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction, where at least one of the premises or the conclusion is general. The word analogy can also refer to the relation between the source and the target themselves, which is often, though not necessarily, a similarity, as in the biological notion of analogy.

Analogy plays a significant role in problem solving, decision making, perception, memory, creativity, emotion, explanation and communication. It lies behind basic tasks such as the identification of places, objects and people, for example, in face perception and facial recognition systems. It has been argued that analogy is "the core of cognition".[1] Specific analogical language comprises exemplification, comparisons, metaphors, similes, allegories, and parables, but not metonymy. Phrases like and so on, and the like, as if, and the very word like also rely on an analogical understanding by the receiver of a message including them. Analogy is important not only in ordinary language and common sense, where proverbs and idioms give many examples of its application, but also in science, philosophy and the humanities. The concepts of association, comparison, correspondence, mathematical and morphological homology, homomorphism, iconicity, isomorphism, metaphor, resemblance, and similarity are closely related to analogy. In cognitive linguistics, the notion of conceptual metaphor may be equivalent to that of analogy.Analogy has been studied and discussed since classical antiquity by philosophers, scientists and lawyers. The last few decades have shown a renewed interest in analogy, most notable in cognitive science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy

Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a hybrid format. It presents an everyday object with a fresh twist. (By Jesson Yip)

http://www.jessonyip.com/analogy/

Now, let's discuss about the two categories under analogy which is metaphor and similes.

This is the image I found on web that describe about metaphor.

The opposable thumb, the awareness of death, and the use of metaphor separates homo sapiens from the rest of species that wander our planet. We use metaphor in all parts of our existence, signs, icons, brand names, nicknames, and countless conversational expressions that are so completely integrated into the way we use language that we long ago stopped viewing them as metaphor.

Metaphor in writing can be a wonderful pleasure, or a horrible trap. We take pleasure when a story gives us a powerful metaphoric reference filled with implicit associations that deepen and strengthen our story.

Unfortunately, trying to sustain metaphor throughout a story, or the mixing of metaphor, can immediately send the work down a slippery slope and backfire on you (ugh). Poetic urges in storytelling should be rooted in the organic voice of the teller. Listening to an Irish lass talk about her dog standing in a field can be as poetically charged as a reading of a published poet at your local bookstore. But many of us are not raised in cultures that lapse into metaphor with a delicate ease. Don't work too hard at finding a large or small metaphor to enhance your story, let it come when it comes.

http://www.storycenter.org/canada/metaphor.html

Below are the examples that use 'similes' techniques:

As bold as brass
As brave as a lion
As bright as a button
As bright as day
As bright as the sun
As busy as a bee
As busy as a cat on a hot tin roof
As calm as a millpond
As clear as a bell
As clean as a hound's tooth
As clean as a whistle
As clear as crystal
As clear as mud
As cold as ice
As common as dirt
As cool as a cucumber
As crazy as a loon
As cunning as a fox
As dull as dishwater
As easy as A.B.C.
As easy as pie
As fast as a racecar
As fat as a hippo
As fat as a pig
As fit as a fiddle
As flat as a pancake
As free as a bird
As fresh as a daisy
As merry as a cricket
As modest as a maiden
As much use as a yard of pump water
As naked as a baby
As neat as a pin
As pleased as Punch
As poor as a church mouse
As poor as dirt
As pretty as a picture
As proud as a peacock
As pure as snow
As pure as the driven snow
As quick as a wink
As quick as lightning
As quick as silver
As quiet as a mouse
As rich as gold
As right as rain
As round as a barrel
As safe as houses
As scarce as hen's teeth
As sensitive as a flower
As silent as the grave
As wise as Solomon
As wise as an owl
Worked as hard as an alabama cottonpicker

http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/spoon/similes.php

Today exercise was, we are given 20 of differents word, choose 3 number we like from 00 to 99, then relate to the words given then make a sentence and illustrate of the words we combined. The words are :


And the number i choose are 07,17 and 40.
Which is 07-Fly Tree ; 17-Flower Tree ; 40-Light head