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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. 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.

  4. Enrique Gil Robles - Wikipedia

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    Enrique Gil Robles (1849–1908) was a Spanish law scholar and a Carlist theorist. In popular public discourse he is known mostly as father of José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones.

  5. 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.

  6. Francisco de Quevedo - Wikipedia

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    Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Knight of the Order of Santiago (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾanˈθisko ðe keˈβeðo]; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era.

  7. ...y no se lo tragó la tierra - Wikipedia

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    Rivera said he had trouble getting his works published at first, and said some of his manuscripts were probably rejected because he was Chicano.Rivera sent manuscripts everywhere and he said he received "thousands" of rejections before winning the Quinto Sol award and publishing his novel the subsequent year.

  8. No One Writes to the Colonel - Wikipedia

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    The novella was written between 1956 and 1957 while the author was living in Paris in the Hotel des Trois Colleges [2] and was first published in 1958, in Mito Revista Bimestral de Cultura v. IV no. 19 (May-June 1958), with first separate publication in 1961. [3]

  9. 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. The family traveled widely in Europe, including stays in Spain. On his return to Argentina in 1921, Borges began publishing his poems and essays in surrealist literary journals.