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metaphor
metaphor Figure of speech that draws a comparison. It differs from ordinary comparisons in its inventiveness, and from a
simile in the complexity of the idea expressed. ‘Fleece as white as snow’, is a simile, whereas ‘His political life was a constant swimming against the tide’, is a metaphor.
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Metaphors are mindfunnels: finding neo.(PROGRAM MANAGEMENT)(Metaphors We Live By)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Defense AT & L; 11/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...s reliance on metaphor is shockingly...explains that metaphors do not simply...partial." No metaphor is a complete...that not only do metaphors provide partial...we developed a metaphor of our own: Metaphors are mind-funnels...
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Metaphor-The Bridge Between Feelings and Knowledge
Magazine article from: Psychoanalytic Inquiry; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...into conceptual and perceptual metaphors. Although Freud did not use the term metaphor, he did, in effect, describe...to say private, meaning of metaphor. But as metaphor is also part of language, metaphors can be impersonal, conventional...
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Using Metaphors for High-Performance Teaching and Coaching.
Magazine article from: JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance; 9/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...creating effective metaphors. Metaphor Defined Metaphor...message of the metaphor and then respond...physical action. Metaphors can also increase...when effective metaphors are used, it is important that the metaphor and the physical...
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Mixing Metaphors: God as Mother and Father in Deutero-Isaiah.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...immense variety of metaphors, many studies analyze...only one particular metaphor (e.g., God...intertwined with other metaphors. She proposes that a metaphor cannot be understood...conceptual based metaphor (Metaphors We Live By [Chicago...
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Metaphors of hospitality organizations: an exploratory study.
Magazine article from: Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly; 6/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...hospitality organization metaphors. Metaphors: Essence and Function A metaphor is defined as a figure...1977) pointed out, metaphor supplies language with...to expand the language. Metaphors, according to Nisbet...
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Metaphors by the seashore.
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...poetic metaphors, the metaphors found in poetry, are the ferries. Poetic metaphors are unique, idiosyncratic...elucidate. A poetic metaphor is a ferry between two...bridges get built - do the metaphors become prosaic, undergirding...metaphorical history of metaphor. Our vacation ...
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Metaphors and organizational conflict
Magazine article from: Social Behavior and Personality; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...holding different metaphors, oblivious to the...accordance with their metaphor. They are like...current knowledge of metaphors. We believe that...on the use of the metaphor for understanding...fascinating field. We use metaphors to describe an experience...graphically. In a metaphor ...
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Metaphor in immunology.
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/18/1986; ; 700+ words
; ...claiming in Illness as Metaphor (Farrar, Straus...1978) that medical metaphors are dangerous to...t, she says, metaphors mislead and are...defeating. The role of metaphor in science is well...use of analogy and metaphor." But on the other hand, he says, metaphors can limit thinking...
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Metaphors around the TV remote control.
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 12/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...technologies through a screen of metaphors. These metaphors let us understand the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar. But metaphors hide some aspects of the new...should be preparing for. Still, metaphor becomes necessary when a new...
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Metaphors of a Mestiza Consciousness: Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: MELUS; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Lakoff and Johnson in Metaphors We Live By, play...socialize (3). Metaphor in this way redefines...distinction between metaphors/archetypes/images...implies two levels of metaphor: surface and conceptual...which the surface metaphor is built. In More...basic conceptual metaphors," ...
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metaphor
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
metaphor Ordinary language...with corporeal metaphors. We frequently...x2019; theories of metaphor, described metaphors in the Rhetoric...book, Models and Metaphors . In this volume...suggested that a metaphor acts as a ‘...
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Metaphor
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...On the other, he calls metaphor "a kind of enigma" and claims...far is to have a command of metaphor" because "this alone cannot...genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances...dominant Aristotelian idea of metaphor is not, however, either...
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METAPHOR
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...principle is:‘A metaphor is like a simile condensed...or as , whilst in a metaphor the comparison is implied...of students recognize metaphors, but do not comment...was which. Extended metaphors Orwell's tale is an...based on the master metaphor ‘farm is...
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Metaphor, Food as
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...Food can serve as a metaphor for family, religion...things. These principal metaphors appear across cultures...overview of food as metaphor provides explanations...belief system, food is a metaphor for body, mind, and...dietary self-control are metaphors for mental clarity and...
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Metaphors and Euphemisms
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Metaphors and Euphemisms...through the use of metaphor and euphemism...and the use of metaphor is often inevitable...understanding metaphors as embellishments...In Illness As Metaphor (1978), Susan...the military metaphors applied to disease...
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