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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.,
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1] It may provide (or obscure) clarity or identify hidden similarities between two different ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy. [2]
It has been argued that the two poles of similarity and contiguity are fundamental ones along which the human mind is structured; in the study of human language the two poles have been called metaphor and metonymy, while in the study of the unconscious they have been called condensation and displacement. [2]
Example: "His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.../And the beard on his chin was as white as the snow." (emph added)—Clement Clark Moore [14] A metaphor [15] is a figure of speech in which two "essentially unlike things" are shown to have a type of resemblance or create a new image. [16]
One example is the association of "heaviness" with "difficulty". [2] Likewise, there is a correlation between knowing and seeing forming the primary metaphor knowing is seeing . Understanding an expression such as glass ceiling rests on two such primary metaphors.
Furthermore, the metaphor "magpie" is employed because, according to Zuckermann, hybridic "Israeli" displays the characteristics of a magpie, "stealing" from languages such as Arabic and English. [18]: 4–6 Two examples using the term "fishing" help clarify the distinction. [19]
To give two examples. According to Nietzsche, we are in metaphor or we are metaphor: our being is not derived from a Platonic, eternal essence or from a Cartesian thinking substance but (in as much as there is a way of being we can call ours) is emergent from tensional interactions between competing drives or perspectives (Nietzsche 2000).
An example of a trope is the metaphor, ... "Painful pride" is an oxymoron, where two contradictory ideas are placed in the same sentence.