What is image metaphor?

Metaphor is an important way to produce humor. Its main function is to create the image of language. Those metaphors that make people feel unique, unexpected and cunning blackmail are good materials that lead to humor.

There is such a joke in "Laughing in the Forest": a county official visits his boss. After talking about business, the boss asked, "I heard that there are monkeys in your county. I wonder how old they are?" The county magistrate replied, "The big ones are as big as adults." The county magistrate consciously made a slip of the tongue and quickly added, "The small one is as small as a slave." Here, when the county magistrate was in a hurry, his words were rude. After he understood it, he quickly remedied it and belittled himself, thus raising the other side, which made people laugh.

humor with metaphors should be natural and appropriate, without showing traces, giving people a seamless feeling, which can make people feel relieved. Let's look at a humorous story of Einstein. Once, a young man asked him to explain what relativity is, and he made a vivid and funny metaphor: "When you sit with a beautiful girl for two hours, you feel like sitting for two minutes;" But if you sit by a hot stove for even a minute, you will feel as if you have been sitting for two hours. This is the theory of relativity. "

At the celebration, the general managers of both sides frequently toasted. The director of the public relations department of one side stood up and gave a stunning introduction to the cooperation between the two sides: "Our two companies, one in Hainan and the other in Henan, can be said to be' South-South cooperation'. As you know, international South-South cooperation is the same body of world economic development. The' South-South cooperation' between our two companies is a sister of friendship development. We help each other in South-South, connect South-South and combine South-South. Now, I can tell you that our good cooperation between Qin and Jin has yielded fruitful results. Today happens to be July 7, and the magpie has put up the overpass. May we spend every day in July 7. " This speech skillfully used metaphors such as "South-South cooperation" and "sister conjoined", vividly revealed the tacit cooperation between the two companies, and made a beautiful prediction on the development prospects, with profound implications.

there is another story, which is also interesting. At a dialogue meeting between writers and critics in C city, writer A met critic B who had never met before. After exchanging names, writer A said, "Oh, I've heard a lot about you! I have long known that you have a good knowledge of the stars and are a famous astronomer. "

critic b couldn't help but be stunned, and then laughed: "Old A, you only know how to bury yourself in writing and get paid for it. I am engaged in literary criticism. How can you study astronomical phenomena? You must be mistaken."

Writer A rightly replied, "How could I be wrong? In your published articles, there are often many stars such as' famous singers',' stage stars',' literary superstars' and' poetry stars'. Why are you not an excellent astronomer?"