HOW TO DEVELOP IMPACTFUL METAPHORS
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- Опубліковано 8 лип 2024
- Everyone knows by now that using metaphors skillfully allows you to persuade, influence, and charm other people with your verbal skills in a way that literal language does not.
However, mediocre metaphors make no impact. If you are going to use metaphors, then you must use them skillfully.
In this video, you will learn THREE steps that allow you to transform mundane and commonplace metaphors into memorable, impactful metaphors.
Become a "master of metaphor" like Winston Churchill, Hank Moody, Ari Gold, and many other colorful personalities and historical figures!
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- I'm drowning in my thoughts
- My thoughts are pulling me down to the deep dark abyss and drawing me
- I'm being dragged down into a dark abyss where I'm being drowned by my suffocating thoughts that are igniting a burning sensation of entrapment and claustrophobia and setting my lungs on fire.
Wth this actually works!!!! 😂 (p.s I'm good guys, that was just the first metaphor that came to my head and so I just developed it) ✌🏼
That's personification and merely a metaphor. You gave human qualities and traits to various abstract objects that are high compared to actual human action. For instance, "drowning" and "pulling."
Don't mean to discourage you... but your error is when you say that you're "being dragged down into a dark abyss where..." which will confuse people. People won't know that you're talking about your thoughts even when adding "by my suffocating thoughts" to it. They can get stuck at trying to figure out which abyss you're talking about... while you continue delivering passive vocabulary terminologies... even when re-reading the sentence several times, I'm not even talking about orating it. Maybe saying "cognitive abyss" would cut the mustard... ;) On the other hand overstuffed sentence will make many people roll their eyes... it should be short yet dense with info! Most people feel it when you try to be pedantic. Passive vocabulary words should be used 1-2 times max within a sentence or it should flow with a context among active vocabulary words that are more important in a sentence.
Active vocabulary words are the one's we use comfortably. like the word comfortable. I don't have to re-explain it to my mind of it's definition.
Passive vocabulary words are the one's we may know, but don't use it, or forgot, but can recall if reminded.
(HOW ABOUT THIS ONE!!)
My thoughts are now a dark abyss, dragging me by my throat down inside the chaotic maw of a bear that is my own mind, peeling my skin with it's sharp canine words, swallowing my whole being into the madness.
we live the life of the metaphor, it is us. Would there otherwise be anything to experience if you weren't there, in your universe it wouldn't be.
I like learning metaphors because I love poetry and I like how they sound
The sun is a light bulb over my head, it gives me good thoughts
I'm so bad at this that the first one was better than I can do most of the time.
you are hulk hogan who fought yourself, breaked your back, did surgery and returns because u dont wanna give up
It's good to know your own weaknesses ;)
My first metaphor i could think of was “my house is red”
As always, if you prefer to read check out the associated blog post for this video @ artofverbalwar.com/2017/01/01/how-to-develop-impactful-metaphors/
Art of Verbal War hey min where's Harvey specter guide?? ¿¿
@GHOST snow Happy New Year my friend! It will be re-released at the end of January. If you're interested, make sure you sign up for the e-mail notification at www.artofverbalwar.com/harveyspecter
The hard part is making this a habit. I've always loved how metaphors help explain difficult concepts. Do you cover that in your course?
Thanks for your feeback Unlucky13ification! Not explicitly. Using metaphor is just a deliberate choice one needs to start making and keep making, but the course will provide you tools to make metaphors/figurative speaking much much easier, and by making it easier, I think people will more often pull it out of their metaphoric toolbelts.
I feel like a dumb kid in class struggling with a upcoming exam. Then the smart kid walks over and hands me the cheat codes. Never asked for it. But I appreciate everything I was given just in case i need a Plan B.
The clouds were a malevolent army lurching through the blue sky above. I felt under pressure as the commanding sun screamed orders at its army of belevelant rays to penetrate the dense collosal army below with bullets of perplexing light.
Is this good enough for an opening metaphor in my school project?
This metaphor would definitely penetrate their dense and thick skin
Even though this comment is a year old and my opinion is irrelevant, I would've done something more like this:
The clouds were a malevolent army lurching through the sky. I felt under pressure as the sun screamed orders at its army of rays to penetrate the army below with bullets of perplexing light.
A lot of the words were adjectives just to prove you can use them, for example if the sun 'screamed', it's already implied that it's 'commanding', so adding too many adjectives are just a filler and make the writing seem clunky. That's just my opinion though, and like I said it's irrelevant lmao.
Subtlety is key. It’s good to leave space for the reader to interpret the scene themselves, let their imaginations run wild with the words you have given them. Blend simple and complex writing together.
My dome hits the pillow, the waves crash on my head,
I forget where i'm at, i'm curled up in my bed.
Sensations like I am dead. Rolling is in my head
Waves that roll over my body which sinks like lead
The depths of the water seducing me with a song,
Plunging further to its depths, no sense of right or wrong
craving fresh air, resurfacing I reflect,
on the glassy wet surface sprawled out on my bed
Wrote these lyrics based on this metaphor I created (using this video ofc): "My dreams are a pool of warm water seducing me to plunge further into its depths before reemerging with only the glassy surface to reflect on." Also the lyrics allude to me having pissed my bed at the end. Opinions? Did my lyrics capture the spirit of my original metaphor well? Did you catch the bed wetting joke?
You're friends with Jessica Pearson in real life, that's pretty cool
@Nikanyiso Wow, in a way you are right! She'll get a kick out of that when I tell her you said that...
Do you do any training or know where I could get skills to use analogies and metaphors fluently during speaking?
For example:
Instead of: I don't want to break the software.
Say: I don’t want to 'jeopardize' the 'integrity' of the software.
Instead of: I want to make you happy and create great code at the same time.
Say: I want to 'bridge the gap' between meeting your needs and best coding practices.
Here is another exaggerated example: (similar to how politicians speak)
'Essentially', I want to 'leverage' these tutorials with 'the whole notion of' becoming a better speaker.
These tutorial will help 'dictate' how soon I gain 'traction' 'moving forward'.
'Switch gears' to our software, the goal here is to 'reduce' the amount of 'discrepancies' and 'undesirable' behavior in this 'scenario', 'in order to drive', 'flexibility' and 'formulate' a plan to put all the 'moving parts' together and 'identify' 'opportunities' in the field. The 'trigger point' for me was in this 'use case' was to 'capitalize' on my strengths and 'revamp' my 'efforts', and 'illustrate' a great 'format', 'in terms of' 'launching' and 'investigating' the 'idea of' how to 'approach' new clients, in an 'environment', where it may look similar on the 'surface', but you want to 'expose' the correct 'infrastructure'. etc.
I want to learn how to use metaphors and those kinds of words or phrases when I speak, and was wondering how do they learn to speak like that and if there were any daily practicing techniques I could do everyday to get better at doing it?
Thanks in advance!
this video just upped in quality! good job! your videos are increasing in quality!
Thanks Reboot Program! Are you a video professional btw?
Excellent; thank you.
Thank you so for this!
Pretty cool I came across this video just after taking some practice lsats…I think my head is in the right place :)
did you change the examples for the meeting? lol
This was simply awesome! :)
@TKV Education Thanks so much!
Art of Verbal War No problem. I also wish you a happy New year!!! Best wishes and good luck in the future of your channel!!!! :)
•freedom is lying on the field and feeling the lush grass beneath your feet.
Nice
Who are the best poets to study to improve this skill?
Lil Wayne, Jcole, Eminem
Sylvia Plath
You called a simile a metaphor in action. Did anyone catch this?
Yes, caught that. When I think “metaphor in action” I’m reminded of “The fog comes on little cat feet,” by Carl Sandburg.
Dang bruh you are good at this shit
Can you do a english gcse video of teaching how to write metaphors please
What do you mean by “gsce”?
@@Artofverbalwar if u could tell students which are in school to how to use metaphors plesse
Gcse is like a final exam for students that are in school
And im speaking from england im 16 years old trying to do my english if this doesn t make sense so basically English Language is a subject where you have to use all of this metaphors simile and etc... and a lot of linguistic devices
You wrote "GCSE is like a final exam for student are in school"...you already know how my friend :) It really takes practice, hopefully you have lots of it being in the British school system, I'm sure you do. But if not, my program Master of Metaphor is fantastic. Let me know if you're interested and I can hook u up with a student discount.
@@Artofverbalwar i mean like meraphors are really used in english so if you could make a video of how to make them it would be appreciated and if you could give me a discount would be nice too
My life is pitch black stumbling to find light.
Or
My room has cloudy, white paint walls it easily breaks apart
I can’t think of metaphors to save my life
Isnt his last example technically a simile? He uses the word "like"???
Example: The man was a mad monster, who was as insane as a mad man
The part ‘The man was a mad monster’ is a metaphor, and that part, ‘who was as insane as a mad man’ is a simile that is being added to the description of the man
I bet his "friend" got in trouble at her law firm because someone saw this video and reported to the head partners that she had trashed the law firm, calling its lawyers a bunch of sharks. But, hey, he got to market his book. However, I'm not sure he landed anymore speaking gigs.
Simile?
I am glad somebody caught that..."...without the use of like or as.."
I caught that as well
hey min! where's Harvey specter guide?? ¿¿
Good help on rapping
For sure
Incredible!
Thanks David!
Juice WRLD brought me here ...
My brother is in sales and hes world class at it. Yesterday we were on the phone and here's how part of the convo went:
....
Brother: another few weeks and the hot season will be over.
Me: your butterfly stroking it the last few laps then you'll be able to take a breath.
Lil Wayne brought me here ✍🏽
Same here bro 🤣
same!
Shark me
No offense intended I just had to get this metaphor off my chest like breast reduction... "I don't give a phuck, like I don't need my deck"... Uuuh, you know what I mean
Or you could just say my law firm is full of constipated greyhound...you're welcome
Jesus. Way. Truth. Life
John 14
Verse 7.
My mom was just talking about metaphors in the New Testament this afternoon, and that's what I told her. (Even though this is a bit more literal than most metaphors).
No metaphor intended.
The concept of creating action-driven metaphors is sound. HOWEVER, you extended the metaphor way too much, and you made it too intricate and too detailed to follow without relistening. Over-extending a metaphor DIMINISHES its effectiveness in terms of communication and persuasion. You must hit the right balance in terms of length and complexity so that people quickly, instantly, absorb the meaning, without having to pause, think, process, relisten. If you're speaking to an audience, and they have to pause and reflect on what you just said, then their mind is distracted, and they are no longer hearing what you are continuing to say --- you're losing them.