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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.,
In feminist spiritual circles, a "Croning" is a ritual rite of passage into an era of wisdom, freedom, and personal power. [3]According to scholar Clarissa Pinkola Estés, the Crone is "the one who sees far, who looks into the spaces between the worlds and can literally see what is coming, what has been, and what is now and what underlies and stands behind many things.
悪女, 惡女 or 악녀 meaning "bad girl", "evil girl", "bad woman" or "evil woman". It may refer to: "Akujo" (悪女), track in Japanese album All Time Best: Utahime Cover by Akina Nakamori; Evil Girl (惡女), Taiwanese album by Amber An; Lost in Perfection (惡女), Taiwanese film starring Lin Mei-hsiu and Ivy Shao
Goodwife was one of the many forms of address towards women at the time. While Goodwife and Mistress were used at the same point, there was a noticeable shift from calling women Goodwife to Mistress and ultimately the usage of Goodwife faded out around the 18th century. However, there is evidence that points towards Goodwife being used longer ...
"Girlboss" is a neologism that denotes a woman "whose success is defined in opposition to the masculine business world in which she swims upstream". [1] [attribution needed] They are described as confident and capable women who are successful in their career, or the one who pursues her own ambitions, instead of working for others or otherwise settling in life.
A common central theme of such literature and folktales is the often forceful "taming" of shrewish wives by their husbands. [2] Arising in folklore, in which community story-telling can have functions of moral censorship or suasion, it has served to affirm traditional values and moral authority regarding polarised gender roles, and to address social unease about female behavior in marriage.
Syllepsis: the use of a word in its figurative and literal sense at the same time or a single word used in relation to two other parts of a sentence although the word grammatically or logically applies to only one. Synecdoche: form of metonymy, referring to a part by its whole, or a whole by its part.