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...

Term taken from ancient rhetoric for a ‘figure of speech.’ Metaphors are linguistic images that are based on a relationship of similarity between two objects or concepts; that is, based on the same or similar semantic features, a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Running the country is no game. It just sounds like one sometimes. In the Bush White House, sports are a metaphor for life. Better keep up if you want to play.Consider how President Bush describes his time left in office."I'm going to sprint to the...

The head of the local police union is calling for the resignation of a town official, who referred to members of the force as "testosterone gushers" in an e-mail recommending the establishment of awards to honor town employees. Finance Committee...

Essay examines how metaphors create meaning.