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  2. Visual metaphor - Wikipedia

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    Visual metaphors are a type of metaphor. There are two types: spatial metaphors and stylistic metaphors. [6] Spatial visual metaphors include where objects are located, their size, whether they are abstract or realistic, and how it is arranged in respect to other objects. Stylistic visual metaphors are more about how they look specifically.

  3. Internet metaphors - Wikipedia

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    However, this aspect should not be considered the only defining feature of a functional metaphor as social metaphors are often spatial in nature. Cyberspace is the most widely used spatial metaphor of the Internet and the implications of its use can be seen in the Oxford English Dictionary definition, which denotes cyberspace as a space within ...

  4. Image schema - Wikipedia

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    Experientially basic and primarily spatial image schemas such as the Containment schema and its derivatives the Out schemas lend their logic to non-spatial situations. For example, one may metaphorically use the term out to describe non-spatial experiences: (4) Leave out that big log when you stack the firewood.

  5. Terms of orientation - Wikipedia

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    Terms of orientation, terms of location, or spatial words are common linguistic descriptors used to indicate the spatial positioning of objects in three-dimensional space, including notions of top, bottom, front, back, left side, and right side as used in everyday language and interactions.

  6. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    When a loose cannon flogs a dead horse there's the devil to pay: seafaring words in everyday speech. Camden ME: International Marine. ISBN 978-0-07-032877-8. Miller, Charles A. (2003). Ship of state: the nautical metaphors of Thomas Jefferson : with numerous examples by other writers from classical antiquity to the present. Lanham, MD ...

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    The young woman, named Sam, shared a video on TikTok on Tuesday, Dec. 10, in which she and her parents took part in the viral “We Listen and We Don’t Judge” trend, which sees a group gather ...

  8. Dick Van Dyke, 98, Says He's 'Not Afraid' of Dying: 'I'm ...

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    The video begins with Van Dyke walking out into his backyard where Coldplay's front man, Chris Martin, sits at a piano and breaks into song. Laura Johansen, Alaura Imagery & Design Dick Van Dyke ...

  9. Mental timeline - Wikipedia

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    There are many other examples of spatial representations of time around the world such as clocks, calendars and hourglasses. This reasoning is also given for the use of spatial metaphors connecting the intangible concept of time with a more solid concept of space. Spatial metaphors such as, ‘there’s a big day ahead’ or ‘put the past ...