Lesson 22 - April 28th, 2025. David Lodge's Metaphor and Metonymy in Nice Work


STEP 1

Extract from D. Lodge's Nice Work, Penguin Books, 1988, pp.220-222

Translation_Metaphor and Metonymy

 

STEP 2

Shortly summarise the content of the extract

(denotative analysis)

 

STEP 3

CONNOTATIVE ANALYSIS

- Narrator

- Structure

- Semantics

- Syntax

- Figures of speech

- Point/s of view

- Style and Tone

- Other

 

 STEP 4

  • Who do you think the ideal reader/s is/are?
  • What is the overall effect? How is it made up? Which of the elements above all play the most important role?
  • Who do you think the narrator sides with?

 

STEP 5

More about metaphor and metonymy

 

STEP 6

STUDY MATERIALS