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  2. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g.,

  3. Illness as Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    Illness as Metaphor served as a way for Susan Sontag to express her opinions on the use of metaphors in order to refer to illnesses, with her main focuses being tuberculosis and cancer. The book contrasts the viewpoints and metaphors associated with each disease.

  4. AIDS and Its Metaphors - Wikipedia

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    AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about the metaphors attributed to cancer to the AIDS crisis. Sontag explores how attitudes to disease are formed in society, and attempts to deconstruct them.

  5. What do pediatricians do when their own kids get sick ... - AOL

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    Dr. Hanna Jaworski, pediatric division chief at Corewell Health, says that "rest is critically important" when her kids are sick. "I have two teenagers at home — my kids are 14, 12 and 7 — and ...

  6. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    With an inexact metaphor, however, a metaphier might have associated attributes or nuances – its paraphiers – that enrich the metaphor because they "project back" to the metaphrand, potentially creating new ideas – the paraphrands – associated thereafter with the metaphrand or even leading to a new metaphor. For example, in the metaphor ...

  7. Why do we feel emotions in our stomachs? - AOL

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    We even use phrases like "my feelings were hurt" -- which is meant to be a metaphor, but may have a more literal origin. We've known for a long time that sometimes we feel our emotions physically ...

  8. Spoon theory - Wikipedia

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    Spoons are used as a metaphor and visual representation for energy rationing. Spoon theory is a metaphor describing the amount of physical or mental energy that a person has available for daily activities and tasks, and how it can become limited. The term was coined in a 2003 essay by American writer Christine Miserandino.

  9. You Can’t Have Healthy People On a Sick Planet - AOL

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    Think about it: We can’t have healthy people on a sick planet. Thank you, health care institutions for helping me heal. And join me, health care institutions, in helping the planet heal.