CONCEPT APPLICATION: METAPHOR “A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a point is made about one thing by substituting something else that demonstrates.

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CONCEPT APPLICATION: METAPHOR

“A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a point is made about one thing by substituting something else that demonstrates a particular quality of the first in a

dramatic way”

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CONCEPT APPLICATION: METAPHOR

• A song “History” that Jay-Z wrote after President Obama won the 2008 presidential election and performed it at one of the inaugural balls. It sustains a metaphor throughout the song which never breaks.

• It’s a song that talks about victory and success and history in the largest, communal sense, but it does it, through metaphors and deeply personal storytelling.

• Song Chorus:

Now that all the smoke is gone And the battle's finally won Victory is finally ours History so long so long, so long

I’m not a businessman. I’m a business, man.