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Chapter 5

Chapter 5. Plant Metaphors and Food Metaphors. Vocabulary Plus: A Source-Based Approach www.ablongman.com/nilsen. By Don L. F. Nilsen And Alleen Pace Nilsen. Ambiguous Fruit. Farming and Gardening Metaphors Hay | Straw | Stick | Fruit. Grain. Straw/Strewn.

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Chapter 5

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  1. Chapter 5 • Plant Metaphors • and • Food Metaphors 35

  2. Vocabulary Plus: A Source-Based Approachwww.ablongman.com/nilsen By Don L. F. Nilsen And Alleen Pace Nilsen 35

  3. Ambiguous Fruit 35

  4. Farming and Gardening MetaphorsHay | Straw | Stick | Fruit 35

  5. Grain 35

  6. Straw/Strewn 35

  7. Cultivating MetaphorsMuck | Cultivate | Thresh | Grain 35

  8. Alleen and Tree Animals 35

  9. Personification 35

  10. TreesBranch | Trunk | Log | Leaves 35

  11. Dr. PepperA Pun 35

  12. Vegetables 35

  13. Personified Vegetables 35

  14. Explain the Connections • Bush, Bushy Hair, Ambush, Bushings, Bushwacked, Beating around the bush • Deadwood, Firing deadwood • Fruit, Fruitful discussion • Leaf, Table Leaf, Leaflet • Mushroom, Mushroom cloud • Papyrus, Paper • Plant, Planting someone in the audience, Planting an idea in someone’s head • Stem, Stemware glasses • Stump, Pencil stump, Leg stump, Stumping for votes • Tulip bulb, Light bulb (Nilsen & Nilsen 113-114) 35

  15. More Plant MetaphorsField | Hedge | Stem 35

  16. Spring PlantsGiuseppe Arcimboldo 35

  17. Explain the Metaphors • Blooming idiot • Branching out • Budding genius • Fertile imagination • Putting down roots • Lotus Spread Sheet • Young sprout (Nilsen & Nilsen 113) 35

  18. Plant-Color Metaphors • Apricot • Black Forest Cake • Cherry red • Coffee • Orange • Peach • Strawberry blond (Nilsen & Nilsen 116) 35

  19. Good and Bad Food | Hot and Cold Food 35

  20. The Potato Family • Well, Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other. • They finally got married and had a little sweet potato, which they called “Yam.” • When they told Yam the facts of life they warned her about going out and getting half-baked, and become a “Hot Potato,” and end up with some Tater Tots. 35

  21. Yam said not to worry. “No Spud will get me into the sack and make a rotten potato out of me.” • “But on the other hand, I also won’t stay home and become a Couch Potato.” • Yam exercised so that she wouldn’t become skinny like her Shoestring cousins. • When she went to Europe she was told to watch out for those hard-boiled guys from Ireland. 35

  22. She was also to watch out for the greasy French Fries. • When she went out West, she was told to watch out for the Indians, so she wouldn’t get scalloped. • Yam worked hard to be high class, because she didn’t want to become just another Frito Lay. • She went to Idaho Potato University so that when she graduated she’d be in the Chips. 35

  23. But in spite of all this, one day Yam came home and announced that she was going to marry Tom Brokaw. • Yam’s parents were mortified. • “You can’t marry Tom Brokaw,” they said, because he’s just a… • He’s just a… • He’s just a… • A COMMONTATER! 35

  24. Hole MilkA Pun 35

  25. Sweetness • Honey • Sugar and sugar daddy • Sickeningly sweet novel • Sweet cheeks • Sweet lemon (ct. “Sour grapes”) • Sweet Pee (Olive Oil’s daughter) • Sweet potatoes • Sweet and sour pork • Sweet spot (tennis racket or golf club) • Sweety pie • Sweetheart (Nilsen & Nilsen 117) 35

  26. Literal vs. MetaphoricalSour | Bitter | Salty 35

  27. Egg Metaphors 35

  28. Egg Potential 35

  29. Egg PlantA Pun? 35

  30. Eggs | Meat | Apples | Bread 35

  31. Explain the following cooking metaphors • Cooking someone’s goose • Getting embroiled in a family quarrel • Grilling a witness • Grub, Grubstake & Grubby • Mincing words • Parched thirst • Peeling off three twenties • Raising the heat on gangs • Resentment simmering and then coming to a boil • Salt and pepper beard • Scuttlebut, scuttle a ship & scuttle a project • Slicing a golf ball (Nilsen & Nilsen 106, 123) 35

  32. Explain the following • He bit off more than he could chew. • He ate it up, hook, line and sinker. • He had to be spoon fed. • She has a lot on her plate. • She’s all sweetness and light. • That left a bitter taste in her mouth. • That’s a fine kettle of fish. (Nilsen & Nilsen 124) 35

  33. Grounding:Explain what the following have in common • Meat roast-Celebrity roast • Chocolate mousse-Mousse for your hair • Gravy-gravy train • Grease-Grease the movie • Honey-honey moon • Red herring sardine-red herring metaphor • Pasta-paste • Hash-to hash out a problem • Spice-spicy movie • Parched corn-parchment (Nilsen & Nilsen 106) 35

  34. Explain the following Proverbs • Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. • Don’t put all of your Basques in one exit. • He jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. • He spilled the beans. • He’s nutty as a fruit cake. • He wants everything, from soup to nuts. • It’s as easy as pie. • She’s upper crust. • She’s buttering him up. • It’s like comparing apples and oranges. • Life is a box of chocolates. • That’s how the cookie crumbles. • There’s no accounting for taste. • You have to crack some eggs to make an omelet. (Nilsen & Nilsen 122) 35

  35. !Edgy Food Metaphors • The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice • Cottage cheese thighs (overweight person) • Cracker (WASP) • Cut the cheese • Pop the cherry • Rice burner (Asian car) • Wiener (Nilsen & Nilsen 105) 35

  36. !!Chauncy (the) Gardnerin Jerzy Kozinski’s Being There • “It is possible for everything to grow strong and there is plenty of room for growth, but first some things must wilt and die. • Some plants do well in the sun and some do well in the shade. • As long as the roots are not severed, all is well and will be well in the garden. • In the garden we have spring and summer, but then we get fall and winter.” (Kozinski 106) 35

  37. !!!Other Materials Kozinski, Jerzy. Being There (a DVD starring Peter Sellers), 1979. My Blackberry’s not working. http://www.flixxy.com/my-blackberry-is-not-working.htm 35

  38. Reference Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source Based Approach. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2004. www.ablongman.com/nilsen 35

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