Let us distinguish the various types of metaphor.
What I love about this metaphor is how it works on two levels.
Using a gardening metaphor, he says our experience of life depends on which seeds we choose to water.
"We struggled to see in New Moon a metaphor of teen conformity and longing but found only a muddle," sniffs the Hollywood Reporter.
An eloquent one, written with a skilful brush and delivered with a flower that echoed its central metaphor, would win her heart.
In the current desktop metaphor used by most window systems, you can nest folder within folder ad infinitum. It’s no wonder most computer neophytes get confused when confronted with this paradigm.
It is no less figurative than metaphor.
We have to ask which metaphor is prior.
A metaphor though it is, the real bottom-line costs of design debt cannot be ignored.
If that sounds like a metaphor for Japan's current malaise, then perhaps there is a silver lining.
The proper metaphor for somebody who carries portable but unwieldy and cumbersome infrastructure is that of an astronaut rather than a nomad, says Paul Saffo, a trend-watcher in Silicon Valley.
This metaphor is very appropriate.
THE term "light pollution" is not, it seems, a metaphor.
Use a symbol or metaphor in your story or scene, and have characters talk about it.
If you don't like that metaphor, try thinking of a pack of CARDS a mile high with an elephant perfectly balanced on the top.
Perhaps not. But Le's novel is a brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire, a stunning affirmation of how metaphor can make time and memory as real as the newspaper you are holding in your hands.
She has a striking originality in her use of metaphor.
From the cognitive perspective, synaesthesia is also a kind of metaphor, and it embodies metaphorically cognitive and thinking processes.
As a metaphor for American diversity, the melting pot was first discredited after World War I, when the European immigrants streaming into American cities formed distinct ethnic and national enclaves that didn't melt together.
This light is a metaphor for the flame of creation.
Finally, although a metaphor offers a small boost in learnability to first-time users, it exacts a tremendous cost after they become intermediates.
Conceptual metaphors can be classified according to the cognitive functions they perform into three types: structural metaphor, ontological metaphor, and orientational metaphor.
Allusion is a historical metaphor, of which the original scene or scenario is abstracted into a phrase or a few words and the mapping relationship with what is described is in a connotative position.
It also suggests that metaphor is of significance both for understanding this traditional trope for its further study.
Either you descend into flowery metaphor or you indulge in the "naming of parts".
"It's a bit like a mid-life crisis; it's a chance to be reborn as someone else, " he says. "It's a metaphor.
The metaphor extends to all of chemistry.
What is the meaning of this metaphor?
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