The article discusses urban geographers' use of metaphors to help describe and understand cities, highlighting the use of metaphor as frames of reference. The author describes five metaphors that describe cities, including considerations of the city as community, the city as marketplace, and the ...
摘要: Deals with metaphors and similes, which are literary devices used by authors to describe a certain idea. Examples of similes and metaphors.DOI: 10.2307/2918981 年份: 2015 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源 求助全文 Wolters Kluwer Europe PMC ProQuest EBSCO EBSCO 查看更多 相似文献...
What metaphor is used to describe the reason why the men in the town went to Emily's funeral in ''A Rose for Emily''? Emily is compared to a fallen monument. Emily is compared to a rose. Emily is compared to a fine wine.
"Metaphors" is a very short poem from 1959. Plath announces that she is a riddle in nine syllables, and then uses a multitude of seemingly unrelated metaphors to describe herself. However, it is clear upon inspection that she is describing a state of pregnancy. The nine lines correspond to...
The other way of thinking seeks out phenomena and experiences which describe more than just a sum of parts, paying almost no attention to separate elements which would be affected and changed through subjective vision and comprehensive images anyway. The major concern is not the reality as it is...
In contrast, ascribed metaphors are novel or stock metaphors that researchers adopt to describe a phenomenon they have identified or view as teachers' perceived teaching experiences. Ascribed metaphors are often used in teacher development, such as in workshops or lectures, and teachers are expected ...
Conceptual metaphors play a fundamental role in human cognition and how we understand and view the world. A conceptual metaphor goes beyond literary devices and becomes deeply ingrained concepts used to describe how we relate to the world.
The other way of thinking seeks out phenomena and experiences which describe more than just a sum of parts, paying almost no attention to separate elements which would be affected and changed through subjective vision and comprehensive images anyway. The major concern is not the reality as it is...
As stated above, the researchers used verbal and non-verbal metaphor-elicitation tools to collect data. The verbal tool took the form of a two-item questionnaire that asked participants to describe how they perceive L2 learning processes. The participants were asked to develop metaphors for L2 lea...
Other times though we talk in a way that conjures up a small scene it’s raining cats and dogs out we say, Or I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, Metaphors are one-way to talk about one thing but to describe something else , that may seem roundabout but it’s not, seeing...