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Day, light, and good are often linked together, in opposition to night, darkness, and evil. These contrasting metaphors may go back as far as human history, and appear in many cultures, including both the ancient Chinese and the ancient Persians. The philosophy of neoplatonism is strongly imbued with the metaphor of goodness as light. [1]
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., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".
A Young Man Reading by Candlelight, Matthias Stom (ca. 1630). A night owl, evening person or simply owl, is a person who tends or prefers to be active late at night and into the early morning, and to sleep and wake up later than is considered normal; night owls often work or engage in recreational activities late into the night (in some cases, until around dawn), and sleep until relatively ...
The philosophical use of the metaphor of the mind as a night owl goes at least as far back as an analogy in Aristotle's Metaphysics between the day-blind eyes of bats and human intellect (Aristo., Met. II 993 b9–11).
Night or nighttime is the period of darkness when the Sun is below the horizon. ... and magic that functions as a metaphor for nocturnal danger. [166] ...
A silver lining is a metaphor for optimism in vernacular English, ... Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. [3] [4]
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify ...
Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning; Respect is not given, it is earned. Revenge is a dish best served cold; Revenge is sweet; Rome was not built in one day; Right or wrong, my country; Risk it for a biscuit. [23] Rules were made to be broken.