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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 : The Primary English Curriculum
170 words, approx. 1 pages See also poetry, simile, subject knowledge Metaphor permeates our use of language and it is difficult to imagine speaking or writing without this enrichment. While a simile makes the comparison between phenomena fully explicit – ‘he fought...
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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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3,082 words, approx. 10 pages
 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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Creating metaphors.
01/01/1999: 639 words, approx. 2 pages Students can be taught to use metaphors as a means to enliven the poetry that they write. By making direct comparisons between two distinctly unrelated objects without using the words 'as' or 'like,' students will be able to convey a feeling or thought across...
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Metaphor in immunology.
10/18/1986: 984 words, approx. 3 pages Metaphor in Immunology Chemistry students are familiar with atoms that "like" to bond. Physics students encounter magnetic poles that "repel" or "attract." Science education (and science writing, for that matter) depends on metaphor to illustrate complicateed concepts. Even metaphor's critics find...
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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...



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Metaphors
1,200 words, approx. 4 pages
 Essay examines how metaphors create meaning.


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