Both similes and metaphors are forms of analogy, but different from one another. To say “My love is a red rose” is different from saying that she’s “like a red rose.” To say “The passage was as dark as the inside of a cow.” is different from saying “The passage was the ...
The participants were given a number of sentences, containing both metaphors and similes, and were asked to choose as many 12 discourse goals as possible which they considered to be the reasons for triggering the utterances. The results indicated that the discourse goal of Compare Similarities was...
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This will be followed by an analysis of these proverbs with regard to the distinctive feature of each animal used for the comparison in a specific context and the point of comparison considered. In conclusion, the application of the animal metaphors and similes in the different spheres of every...
Attribution of discourse goals for using concrete- and abstract-tenor metaphors and similes with or without discourse context Although there has been considerable research on the comprehension of figurative language, investigation of its production has been much less common. A par... RJ Harris,BM Fri...