i want to add following line to my essay,"Yellow,dry, and dull leaves reporting winter is approching"
please coment on that if it looks metaphor to you. and when i checked grammar on microsoft word it says,winter are approching,because is does not match with leaves.so please guide what it should be?
2006-10-09 13:34:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
The yellowing, drying and dulling of leaves help report that winter is approaching.
Still not the best syntax, but closest to the proper grammar in the sentence structure you gave us.
2006-10-09 13:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A metaphor has to tell the reader that something is something else. If you use "like" or "as", it's a simile.
You imply a metaphor with your verb choice, which could be written out like so: "The newspaper of yellow, dry and dull leaves reported that winter was approaching."
2006-10-09 20:48:40 · answer #2 · answered by scotchfaster 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although leaves is plural, winter is singular. Microsoft Word often makes errors like that...just ignore them half of the time. Keep your original sentence, it was perfect as it was.
If the sentence was "...yellow, dry, and dull leaves reporting winter is approaching", it is acceptable.
If that is the entire sentence, it needs to be edited, as it is not complete.
Fix these errors, and you'll have your metaphor!
2006-10-09 20:42:20 · answer #3 · answered by : ) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope...not a metaphor because you are not relating leaves to something normally unrelated. "You are a tulip," for example is a metaphor because you, a person, and the tulip are related by "are," the intransitive verb. And one would not normally equate a person to a flower, which is why it is a metaphor. [See source.]
Your "guide" is wrong; you are right. The subject in your sentence is "winter," not "leaves." The grammar guides in MS Word and others are imperfect at best. A good writer will not rely on them 100%.
2006-10-09 20:46:04 · answer #4 · answered by oldprof 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what you have there is not a metaphor. you are speaking literally.
and your sentence would be fine as is, if you finished it. you need something to receive the action.
"... reporting winter is approaching_____" (how/where/what)
if you are going to have that be your entire sentece you will need to change your verb. right now, your verb is talking about multiple subjects. so you have to use a plural verb as well.
your verb is "report"/"reports", so it is as follows:
"yellow, dry (no comma) and dull leaves REPORT winter is approaching"
or, "yelllow, dry and dull leaves are reporting winter is approaching." or/"... winter approaches"
"is" is not your verb since it is describing winter. your subject is "leaves" PLURAL. that is what takes the action.
if you want to use a metaphor, describe something that is like winter but is not winter. ie:
"... report death is approaching": death=winter
"... report silence is approaching": silence=winter.
"... report sleep is approachinig": sleep = winter... etc.
whatever the point is about winter you are trying to make, replace winter with something abstract which communicates that meaning.
2006-10-09 20:44:20 · answer #5 · answered by abbie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know much about metaphors, but winter is approaching is the correct way, I believe. Winter are approaching just doesn't make any sense.
I just did a search on metaphors and I don't think that is one. Here is the link to the examples of metaphors that I found. Maybe that will help you out.
http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/rdg/metaphorhelp.html
2006-10-09 20:40:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's actually a personification, not a metaphor. You are giving the "Yellow, dry and dully leaves" human traits, i.e. they are "reporting".
A metaphor in this case would be something like: "Winter is the yellow, dry leaves, that sign of frosts and winds and blizzards to come."
2006-10-09 20:37:05 · answer #7 · answered by Divinitus 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Approaching -that's the correct spelling. IS is the correct verb form for winter. Your metaphor is leaves. Leaves represent in your essay the movement of time like someone aging.
2006-10-09 20:40:12 · answer #8 · answered by mac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try: Yellow, dry and dull leaves report that winter is approaching.
"Dull leaves" sounds metaphorical.
2006-10-09 20:37:14 · answer #9 · answered by Sandeep S 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The yellow, dry, dull leaves are reporting that winter is approaching.
no need to put "and" between dry-dull because they are describing something...also "are" is needed to keep it in the same tense (present) and in plural form.
and whoever is giving all these "thumbs downs" can kiss our @sses!
2006-10-09 20:37:37 · answer #10 · answered by sunshine 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋