Stylistic Range of Metaphor in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story

Abstract

This paper studies the deployment of a range of expressions with metaphorical senses as a critical vehicle for the communication of involuted issues in human life – love, betrayal and identity in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story. The complex of emotions associated with these is garbled and intricate for explication. It is however animated in Changes by the unique application of metaphor which, also, is quintessentially enforced as a narrative strategy.