In Class Exercise

Life Takes Visa

Explicit Metaphor:  Life is a store.

Tenor:  Life

Vehicle:  Store 

Associative Realm:  In a mall, in the city, places where a lot of people are

Vehicle Association:  buying things, clothing, jewelry, food, style, fads, money, bags with stuff in them, malls

Meanings Highlighted:  That you need Visa to be able to live and have all the life necessities

Meanings Masked:  That a credit card could get you into debt or you might not really have the money for it or some places might not accept credit card or visa

Dangerous Analogies:  Maybe cheap momento that your saying people are shallow in a way and that they don’t really have good priorities and that maybe the person needs credit card because they don’t have the cash

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