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...
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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 it...
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Extended metaphors, symbols and images are used to achieve particular effects in poems and in T.S Eliot's poems; metaphors, symbols, and images are used in order to create meaning for the reader. The...
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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...
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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'...
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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 ...
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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...
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Hurricane Katrina showed us with Mr. Brown, you know Mr. Brown--Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job, Brown. Well let me tell you, Mr. Brown is to Katrina--it's a metaphor for the whole administr...
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Brussels (dpa) - The case of the European Commission versus
software titan Microsoft is already set to go down in history as one
of the most complex cases the European Union...
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ROME, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Have you ever dreamt of smashing up
that car in your neighbourhood whose burglar alarm has the bad
habit of going off in the middle of the night? U.S. director Henry Bean ...
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Starting with Obama's big win in South Carolina, followed by the exit polling that suggested Bill Clinton had offended Democrats with his race-baiting, and enhanced by Sen. Ted and Caroline Kennedy...
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Members of Birmingham's Muslim community on Saturday criticized the intense media speculation surrounding the arrest of nine local men over an alleged terrorist plot to kidnap and kill a British so...
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Metaphor [addendum]
Metaphors
Startup hopes 'Tubes' metaphor has legs
