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  2. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]

  3. Conceptual metaphor - Wikipedia

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    In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another.An example of this is the understanding of quantity in terms of directionality (e.g. "the price of peace is rising") or the understanding of time in terms of money (e.g.

  4. The Story of the Man Who Turned into a Dog - Wikipedia

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    Anti-capitalism [2]; Theatre of the Oppressed [2]; Dehumanization [5]; The importance of spoken language [1] [2] [6]. The contrast between human speech and the barking required of the man in his job as a watchdog could hardly be more stark, and at the end of the story he has entirely lost the ability to speak.

  5. Metaphors We Live By - Wikipedia

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    Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. [1] [2] The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what they know about their direct physical and social experiences to understand more abstract things like work, time, mental activity and feelings.

  6. Elsa López - Wikipedia

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    Expresiones simbólicas a través de un ejemplo de arquitectura popular (1983) Símbolo y realidad en la canción de cuna (1984) El viento como metáfora de la locura en las Islas Canarias (1986) La simbología en la medicina popular canaria (1987) España canta (1990) Arquitectura y espacio canario, forma y color como signo en El Tablado (1990)

  7. Continuidad de los parques - Wikipedia

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    The story begins with a landowner reading a novel that he had started a few days earlier. He had been sidetracked by business matters and a trip to town to discuss a matter of joint ownership, but on his return to his estate, he resumes reading the novel.

  8. Borges and I - Wikipedia

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    Borges was born August 24, 1899, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 1914, Borges's family moved to Switzerland where he studied at the Collège de Genève.

  9. No One Writes to the Colonel - Wikipedia

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    No One Writes to the Colonel (Spanish: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) is a novella written by the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.It also gives its name to a short story collection.