Word: metaphoric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overdone, Frequently Cardinal produces paragraphs of subtle, suggestive prose only to ruin the effect by making an all-too obvious cooperation at the end. We don't need to be told. For it stance, that the narrator's character traits are "like wild horses putting my carriage," a metaphor which has been better stated since Pla to first used it to describe the human mind. One of the more dramatic images which dominates the beginning of the novel is that of blood, which flows continuously from the narrator's uterus for no apparent reason. "Cardinal at first uses this image...
...atmosphere of repression and degeneration. The list of decaying physical objects and the emphasis on what lies hidden behind the gates, doors, and windows of these ruined buildings convey the mediocrity and frustration middle class life has imposed on the narrator much more effectively than the most elaborate metaphor could...
...manic-depressive child. Henry is, after all, a little boy in love with the sound of his own mind. He has every right to be infatuated: his pinwheel brain turns ideas into seductive images. He can pick up a cricket bat and find in its sprung wood a metaphor for the well-made play: "What we're trying to do is to write cricket bats, so that when we throw up an idea and give it a little knock, it might... travel. "Still, there is something adolescent about the intensity of Henry's ardor, whether for the sweetest...
Yentl. Gotta sing! Gotta dance! Gotta study that Talmud! Filling every function but set decorator on this lavish musical, Barbra Streisand transforms a tale of the shtetl into a moving metaphor for her own determination and talent...
...fruitful theatrical device: the two characters play out their separate alonenesses simultaneously on the same set. Most of the dramatic tension, then, resides in the blocking, since both actors must studiously maintain the illusion of solitude while barely avoiding coliisions. The setup also gives the directors a concrete metaphor for the songs' philosophizing: when the characters notice each other at all, when they touch, the show crosses from reality into fantasy...