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  2. Dead metaphor - Wikipedia

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    Dead metaphors are generally the result of a semantic shift in the evolution of a language, [1] a process called the literalization of a metaphor. [2] A distinction is often made between those dead metaphors whose origins are entirely unknown to the majority of people using them (such as the expression "to kick the bucket") and those whose source is widely known or symbolism easily understood ...

  3. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Metaphor – An explanation of an object or idea through juxtaposition of disparate things with a similar characteristic, such as describing a courageous person as having a "heart of a lion". Allegory – A sustained metaphor continued through whole sentences or even through a whole discourse. For example, "The ship of state has sailed through ...

  4. Neutral Tones - Wikipedia

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    The metaphor of the "few leaves" [4] symbolizes the end of an era, hinting towards the dying of life. Yet, it is not life that died, but love. Yet, it is not life that died, but love. The next stanza explores deeper into the nature of their relationship: "Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove over tedious riddles of years ago."

  5. Cognitive poetics - Wikipedia

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    One of the main focal points of cognitive literary analysis is conceptual metaphor, an idea pioneered and popularized by the works of Lakoff, as a tool for examining texts. Rather than regarding metaphors as ornamental figures of speech, cognitive poetics examines how the conceptual bases of such metaphors interact with the text as a whole.

  6. Metaphor and metonymy - Wikipedia

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    The couple metaphor-metonymy had a prominent role in the renewal of the field of rhetoric in the 1960s. In his 1956 essay, "The Metaphoric and Metonymic Poles", Roman Jakobson describes the couple as representing the possibilities of linguistic selection (metaphor) and combination (metonymy); Jakobson's work became important for such French ...

  7. Sonnet 73 - Wikipedia

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    Sonnet 73, one of the most famous of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, focuses on the theme of old age.The sonnet addresses the Fair Youth.Each of the three quatrains contains a metaphor: Autumn, the passing of a day, and the dying out of a fire.

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    He started as an intern in 1984 and then joined GM full-time in 1986 as an analyst in strategic planning and design analysis. Bernard graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ...

  9. Literary modernism - Wikipedia

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    Instead of narrative method, we may now use the mythical method. It is, I seriously believe, a step toward making the modern world possible for art." [26] Eliot's own modernist poem The Waste Land (1922) mirrors "the futility and anarchy" in its own way, in its fragmented structure, and the absence of an obvious central, unifying narrative.