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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.,
The album's lead single was originally intended to be "Gentleman Joe's Sidewalk Café", with the original song by singer/lead guitarist Francis Rossi, "Pictures of Matchstick Men", as the B-side, but these songs were eventually swapped. It reached No. 7 in the UK, and remains the band's only major hit single in the US, where it reached No. 12.
The Tree of Patriarchy is a metaphor used to describe the system of patriarchy. It appears in Allan G. Johnson’s The Gender Knot (1997), who borrowed the idea from R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. (1991). The metaphor uses the parts of a tree to illustrate how patriarchy is shaped by and performs in society.
Murray's father Eric told the outlet that "the two men cried" while they sat together in the living room of their Raleigh, N.C., home. Eric then recalled that his son said, "I don’t want to be ...
Four men are accused of breaking into UPS warehouses across the U.S. in search of packages with specific markings and stealing “high-value” items inside that totaled $1.6 million, federal ...
According to conceptual metaphor theory, people think in terms of frames that are physically realized in the neurocircuitry of the brain. [6] [7] For instance, when a metaphor frames a specific issue, say gas prices, using the basic metaphor more is up and less is down, people will think in terms of up and down when they hear the phrase "gas prices are going through the roof."
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
An extended metaphor, or conceit, sets up a principal subject with several subsidiary subjects or comparisons. In the above quote from As You Like It , the world is first described as a stage and then the subsidiary subjects men and women are further described in the same context.