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Metaphor [addendum] Summary
926 words, approx. 3 pages Metaphor [addendum] This addendum confines itself to general accounts of the nature of verbal metaphor, setting aside work on such more specialized questions as whether metaphors are paraphrasable and such more general and speculative questions as...
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Metaphor Summary
1,603 words, approx. 5 pages Metaphor "Metaphors" have an emotive force and aesthetic dimension that have long been recognized. What has made metaphor so compelling to contemporary philosophers, however, has been its importance to cognition. Aesthetics and philosophy...
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 Metaphor (from the Greek: metapherin) is language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects. In the simplest case, this takes the form: "The [first subject] is a [second subject]." More generally, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope that...




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The Gore metaphor
02/13/1999: 812 words, approx. 3 pages What's the metaphor for Al Gore's presidential campaign? Is it the Mondale campaign of 1984? Is it a Democratic version of George Bush's campaign in 1988? Or is it a replay of Hubert Humphrey's doomed effort in 1968? The lens through which Gore's campaign...
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Science And Metaphor
03/27/1989: 893 words, approx. 3 pages Reaching for a book on a high shelf. Down falls "Season Songs" by poet Ted Hughes, attracting attention to itself by delivering a lump on the head. I sit on the floor and read again these nature poems written 20 years ago by Britain's...
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Startup hopes 'Tubes' metaphor has legs
1/15/2007: 527 words, approx. 2 pages A powerful U.S. senator endured ridicule last year for his assertion that the Internet is "a series of tubes." But one Web startup hopes to bring that metaphor to life with a new service that makes it easy for people to share videos, songs, pictures...
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Producers: `Cavemen' not racial metaphor
7/26/2007: 448 words, approx. 2 pages The producers of ABC's new "Cavemen" said Wednesday the comedy is much more than the insurance company commercials that inspired it, but isn't designed to be an ambitious allegory about race.Geico's TV spots show highly evolved but shaggy-looking cavemen chafing at misconceptions about their sophistication...



Featured Essays
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 Essay Grade: 92%
Metaphors
1,200 words, approx. 4 pages
 Essay examines how metaphors create meaning.


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