Lesson 5: Juxtaposition Analogy

Analogy

–noun, plural -gies.

1. a similarity between like features of two things, on which acomparison may be based: the analogy between the heartand a pump.

2. similarity or comparability: I see no analogy between yourproblem and mine.

3. Biology . an analogous relationship.

4. Linguistics . a. the process by which words or phrases are created orre-formed according to existing patterns in the language,as when shoon was re-formed as shoes, when -ize isadded to nouns like winter to form verbs, or when achild says foots for feet.

b. a form resulting from such a process.

5. Logic . a form of reasoning in which one thing is inferred tobe similar to another thing in a certain respect, on the basisof the known similarity between the things in other respects.

Example of analogy

1. Honey:Bear

2. Grass:Cow

3. Microphone:Performance

4. Bars:Prison

5. Flower:Vase

(http://dictionary.reference.com/)

Lesson 5: Juxtaposition Exercise

MAN- GOLDFISH TIED WITH SHARK FIN

A man should disguise himself to protect himself.

LOVE- A CUP OF TEA

You can choose to add sugar or milk, more or less. But you will taste what you created at last.

LOVE - CREDIT CARDS

Love isn't like credit cards. Sometimes you just don't get what you've paid.

HAPPINESS - CLOCKS

Even the time passed by, the happiness in our heart would never fate away.

PAIN - ICE-CREAM

If you can tolerate the hardship and coldness that people gave you, you will taste the sweetness soon.

LIFE - BURNING FIRE

You can live your life quietly, peaceful and never heard before by the world, like a candle. Or you can choose to bring great impact to the world, like a conflagration. It's up to you.

Lesson 5: Juxtaposition

According to Dictionary.com, 'juxtaposition' means an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, esp. for comparison or contrast. And the state of being close together or side by side. (http://dictionary.reference.com/)

Nowadays, we can see more and more movies using juxtaposition to present the story. The brave hero is not always a strong and handsome man with amour. The beatiful lady not always sitting there silly and wait for the hero rescue.

Poster of 'The Lord of The Ring - The Fellowship of The Ring'

As we know that the protagonist in this movie is a hobbit/halfling, small people with the half size of the normal people. They are carefree people who no need to worry about what happening in the world. They work, eat, sleep, and sing. But Frodo for the shire was given a task that no man in the earth can accomplish. In the movie we can see how strong and determind this character is. Arwen as the heroin in this movie is a beautiful elf who lives in rivendale. She shows her bravery when saving Frodo from the 9 Nazgul on the way to rivendale.

For more information about this movie, please visit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/

Lesson 4: Associated Mind Map

When a photo is not just a photo!

Sometimes when we change our perception towards something of someone, things will be different. This is what the others did when they change their view, they got some interesting pictures.

Pictures taken from www.interesno.dn.ua

Lesson 4: Associated Mind Map

Pestle and Mortar

The exercise for this week is pick five keywords of 'Pestle and Mortar' and think of it's function.

Keywords

1. Heavy

Mortars are heavy. Especially those big mortars made of stone.

2. Herb

People use mortar to mince herb for medical usage or gourment.

3. Strong

The user need to be strong to use the mortar because it cost a lot of energy.

4. Stone

Some mortars are made of stone so they are much more durable than the wooden mortar.

5. Big

There are big mortars that suitable to let the user to mince a huge amount of the ingredient at the same time.

Lesson 3: Mind map

This is a mind map about myself. I used photoshop to manipulate the image and added text in it.

Lesson 3: Mind map

There are a lot of ways to do a mind mapping. It can be sketches, rough text, artistic... As for me, I think that mind map serve as the function to record the idea that you brainstorm at that time, before you turn your idea to a greater work. So I think it is not neccessary to make a really nice mind mapping. It is just for you to refer after all.

Reference

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