metaphor in English

noun
1
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
“I had fallen through a trapdoor of depression,” said Mark, who was fond of theatrical metaphors

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1. Inanimate metaphor, were the least hyperbole were the Abstractionistic metaphor, and

2. The metaphor that I like to use is the metaphor of the circular mill.

3. Abstractionistic metaphor, inanimate metaphor, and personification while litote, synecdoche, and frozen metaphors common

4. I don't have a metaphor.

5. It's a metaphor, see?

6. Metaphor: e.g. chain reaction

7. The writer's striking use of metaphor.

8. Key Difference – Conceit vs Metaphor Conceit and metaphor are two figures of speech that are often used in literature

9. Metaphor is a common literary device.

10. Bandwidth vs Speed: The Plumbing Metaphor

11. Their central metaphor is a loom.

12. Chartwell is a metaphor of its squire.

13. Metaphor, an Analogy is more complex.

14. It is an ominous metaphor, though.

15. Context example: the Analogical use of a metaphor

16. Let us distinguish the various types of metaphor.

17. I hate to hunt down a tied metaphor.

18. It is no less figurative than metaphor.

19. But networks are not just a scientific metaphor.

20. 1 Tropes include metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.

21. Tropes include metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, etc.

22. Because Nishamura uses golf as a metaphor for life.

23. And in a way that's a metaphor for life.

24. The Bible uses sleep as a metaphor for death.

25. The scar metaphor, which runs throughout, never really works.

26. For Kane a poetic metaphor became a literal truth.

27. Melvin, our metaphor for the government, starts worrying.

28. Many issues concerning textual metaphor are still disputation.

29. It's a memory, but it's also a metaphor.

30. Metaphor is traditionally as a particular rhetorical device.

31. And in that sense, ballooning is a beautiful metaphor.

32. Popper emphasizes the point with a striking metaphor.

33. Illustrate the concept with a picture, diagram, metaphor, or analogy.

34. The Addresser is the cognitive subject of metaphor construction: 3

35. The argument-as-war metaphor is just ... it's a monster.

36. We discussed the use of metaphor in the text.

37. This is the key difference between Conceit and metaphor.

38. This is the metaphor gone beyond hyperbole into simile.

39. Metaphor and irony juxtapose meanings: harmonious, contrasting, or conflicting.

40. Of course, Raskin did not use a munitions metaphor.

41. He recollected Cronshaw's whimsical metaphor of the Persian carpet.

42. “Babylon” uses a neat history metaphor to describe a relationship

43. 6 He uses the metaphor of fire to represent hatred.

44. Metaphor, it turns out, is the key to making computers comprehensible.

45. 23 In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

46. Allegorizing is not the right term, metaphor would be better

47. I was hoping for less metaphor, more longitude and latitude.

48. In poetry the rose is often a metaphor for love.

49. Geographical paralysis becomes a bitter metaphor for their entire existence.

50. On reflection the chess metaphor is not a felicitous one.