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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for literary effect, refers to one thing by mentioning another. Thus, it invites the audience to make a comparison between two normally unrelated entities or ideas, which may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities between them. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy.

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Etymology

Parts of a metaphor

As a type of comparison

In rhetoric and literature

Larger applications

In historical linguistics

Historical theories

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Metaphor

Nodes101
Edges100
Triples175
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019802
Components1

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Metaphor

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related to Metaphor category · 16
Metaphor → Aesop's, Allegory, An, Antithesis, Bible, Bildhälfte, Catachresis, Excessive, Hyperbole, Jesus, Parable, Pun, Sachhälfte, Similitude, Similitudes, The
has effect · 14
Metaphor → Baranowski, Boroditsky, COVID-19, Experiments, For, In, Metaphors, Psychological, Similarly, Studies, Their, These, Thibodeau, While
related to Conceptual metaphors · 14
Metaphor → According, By, Communication, Furthermore, George Lakoff, In, In Metaphors We Live, Johnson, Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Moreover, Some, These, Thus
related to External links · 14
Metaphor → BBCAudio, Conceptual, Greek, History, In Our Time, Internet Encyclopedia, Journal, Meaning, Paula, PDF, PerseusMetaphor, Phenomenology, PhilosophyPérez-Sobrino, Pragmatics
related to Metaphor vs metonymy · 13
Metaphor → Arabic, English, For, Furthermore, Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Hebrew, In, Israeli, On, The, There, Yiddish, Zuckermann
related to In rhetoric and literature · 11
Metaphor → Andrew Ortony, Aristotle, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Educational, Homer, In, Jan Garret, Metaphors, Rhetoric, To, When
related to Historical theories · 10
Metaphor → Aristotle, Baroque, But, Emanuele Tesauro, God, God's, His, It, Poetics, There
related to Absolute metaphor · 9
Metaphor → Begriffsgeschichte, Blumenberg, For, German, Hans Blumenberg, Immanuel Kant, It, The, Unknown
related to Nonlinguistic metaphors · 9
Metaphor → Art, Caspar David Friedrich, For, Looking, Metaphors, Meyer, Musicologist Leonard, Robert Vischer, The Lonely Tree
related to Theories of metaphor · 8
Metaphor → Because, But, However, John Searle's, Sally, Searle's, The, Thus

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metaphors one language world conceptual example also another word two metonymy comparison simile understanding use metaphorical may like similes terms

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

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Metaphoris afigure of speech that0.90text
Metaphoris ametaphor in which the sense of a transferred image has become absent0.90text
Metaphoris ametaphor that leaps from one identification to a second inconsistent with the first0.90text
Metaphoris aassociation of object to an experience outside the object's environment.A conceptual metaphor is an underlying association that is systematic in both language and thought.A root…0.90text
Metaphoris afollowing0.90text
Metaphoris aessential component within the context of any language system which claims to embody richness and depth of understanding0.90text
for example the English wordinstance ofThe etymology of a word may uncover a metaphorical usage which has since become obscured with persistent use -0.80text
the distortion of the semantic realm - for example in sarcasminstance ofbut also from other reasons0.80text
powerinstance oftornado carries paraphiers0.80text
storminstance oftornado carries paraphiers0.80text
windinstance oftornado carries paraphiers0.80text
counterclockwise motioninstance oftornado carries paraphiers0.80text

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