Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in ever...
Susan Sontag sometimes insists that we only think about things literally, without usingmetaphor, but it is not clear we can do that, because figurative language is so pervasive inall human languagesWe need to make some basic distinctions, starting with the word Trope. Metaphor is oneof several...
aHe was scolded by the headmaster for wasting his time on chemical experiments and in collecting insects. 他由校长责骂为浪费他的时间在化工实验和在收集昆虫。[translate] a自从2003年 Since 2003[translate] aWith this particular historical event as a metaphor of course,we can definitely know that it...
The author encourages us to join him in thinking of ordinary events analogically — to perform the casual work of metaphor, linking two otherwise unlike entities by virtue of one characteristic. There is, he suggests, a model for social politics in thinking associatively, poetically, seeking aff...
A metaphor borrowed from a musical performer who plays the second or counter to one who plays the first or the "air." [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848] To play first violin, figuratively as "take the leading part" is attested by 1780. Latin secundus, tertius, etc. appended...
supernatural object imbued with metaphor and meaning into a machine that can be manipulated and controlled. But this is the key point: these manipulations, we now understand, must be complemented by attention to the emotional life that the heart, for thousands of years, was believed to contain....
Susan Sontag sometimes insists that we only think about things literally, without usingmetaphor, but it is not clear we can do that, because figurative language is so pervasive inall human languagesWe need to make some basic distinctions, starting with the word Trope. Metaphor is oneof several...
a用一个表示某物的词借喻他物,这个词便成了隐喻词 With one expressed something word taking advantage of explains his thing, this word has then become the metaphor word [translate] a因为他很勇敢,它有很丰富的人生经历,她敢于为爱作斗争 Because he is very brave, it has the very rich life ...
What is the difference between allegory and metaphor? What peculiarities can one find amongst francophone speaking countries aside from the official language, French? What is the difference between ideological and r...
But for now I would like to think about the cat, about how small and defenseless it was, and how the universe showed such little regard to its fate, and how in this sentence ‘cat’ is a metaphor for ‘any of us as individuals at any given moment.’ And how when we grieve, it ...