-
similarities between two
different ideas.
Metaphors are
usually meant to
create a
likeness or an analogy.
Analysts group metaphors with
other types of figurative...
-
Internet metaphors provide users and
researchers of the
Internet a
structure for
understanding and
communicating its
various functions, uses, and experiences...
- In
American slang,
baseball metaphors for **** are
often used as
euphemisms for the
degree of
physical intimacy achieved in ****ual
encounters or relationships...
- A list of
metaphors in the
English language organised alphabetically by type. A
metaphor is a
literary figure of
speech that uses an image,
story or tangible...
- experience. The
regularity with
which different languages employ the same
metaphors,
often perceptually based, has led to the
hypothesis that the mapping...
-
Metaphors We Live By is a book by
George Lakoff and Mark
Johnson published in 1980. The book
suggests metaphor is a tool that
enables people to use what...
- "O Captain! My Captain!" is an
extended metaphor poem
written by Walt
Whitman in 1865
about the
death of U.S.
president Abraham Lincoln. Well received...
-
India Today gave it 3.5/5
stars and wrote, "The film
creatively uses
metaphors to
inspire introspection while commenting on socio-political issues. Although...
- "Biting the bullet" is a
metaphor which is used to
describe a situation,
often a debate,
where one
accepts an
inevitable impending hardship or hard-to-re****e...
- The Ship of Theseus, also
known as Theseus's Paradox, is a
paradox and a
common thought experiment about whether an
object is the same
object after having...
