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  2. List of English-language metaphors - Wikipedia

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    Metaphor may also be used for any rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance. In this broader sense, antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy and simile would all be considered types of metaphor. Aristotle used both this sense and the regular, current sense above. [1]

  3. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Song is mainly inspired by the novella's ending, when protagonist Japi jumps off the Waalbrug. In the song, however, Japi does not drown but is implied to have ended up in Italy. [154] "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" Ambrosia: Ambrosia: Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut: Lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on ...

  6. A Complete Guide to Every Sports Metaphor in Taylor Swift's Songs

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    Taylor Swift David Eulitt/Getty Images Taylor Swift became a bonafide sports fan after she started dating NFL star Travis Kelce in summer 2023. “Football is awesome, it turns out,” Swift ...

  7. Cognitive poetics - Wikipedia

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    One example of cognitive poetics using these assumptions is in the literary device of humour. Through the combination of metaphors, and the manipulation of metaphorical schemas, a writer can successfully draw upon the desired emotional response, however more research pertaining to the role of humour and cognitive poetics is needed.

  8. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Uses of figurative language, or figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. [12] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that figurative language can be classified in five categories: resemblance or relationship, emphasis or understatement, figures of sound, verbal games, and errors.

  9. Epigraph (literature) - Wikipedia

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    An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.