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asked the difference between ametaphorand a simile and to
examples of this type ofmetaphorfrom lakoff and johnson are
approach the second type ofmetaphorthose which lakoff and johnson
likeness is implicit in anymetaphoran example and if any
to take the study ofmetaphorfrom the fringes of literary
or lingered on but themetaphoritself remains strong familiar metaphors
another domain often such ametaphormay start life as a
these is the creative literarymetaphorwhere a concept in one
property of the creative literarymetaphorwhich is to startle people
f963: is it another ismetaphorjust another expression of something
m1008: use that expression teachingmetaphorraining cats and dogs yeah
has dropped out of themetaphorhigh thoughts are now somewhat
aware of this sort ofmetaphorthe more one finds it
dead end to coin ametaphorbut at the same time
system of english that themetaphoris effectively lost or dead
its most basic the operatingmetaphorof the poem is our
human life cycle the structuringmetaphorof the poem is the
the pathway is established themetaphorcan be expressed as a
which suggests a well establishedmetaphorthe actual words have variously
niman lettan on gemynde thismetaphoris particularly strong in the
generally regarded as a bodymetaphorgoing back to the literal
the recipient field thus themetaphori ve just used the
to understand this fairly unusualmetaphoris however assisted by the
an easy step to themetaphorunderstanding is light as when
know m762: yeah f963: themetaphorcan be real so m762:
a bit like rather ametaphorfor real life isn t
that i am using ametaphorso don t look so
it to use a sportingmetaphorshetland punches well above its
sparing in their use ofmetaphorto cloak political subjects they
the language then a newmetaphorfollowing the same path will
of michael reddy s containermetaphorwhich envisages the mind as
it equally if our centralmetaphorin english was not argument
still be nothing but ametaphorfor my predicament just as
muscular that s a mixedmetaphorrobb but i still wish
thought that was like ametaphorthough i didn t think
back to a more fundamentalmetaphorthat of holding grasping or
is some even more ancientmetaphorwhich survives only in this
on easter island this particularmetaphorhas not as far as
such cases one is investigatingmetaphoras a factor in the
6 here we see ametaphordeveloping presumably the first stage
giving ne heel and themetaphordisappeared with it except as
of granite faced with thismetaphorthe reader or listener has
in love in ageing themetaphoris that of the cat
seems to make a sexualmetaphorout of cleopatra s dramatic
impulses the leiterary devices ometaphoran metonymy are linked wi

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