What is metaphor? A. It means only what it is. B. It means something other than what it is. C. It means what it is and something more too. D. It contains at least one more layer of meaning. 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 B ...
—What do you think a metaphor(隐喻)means? -I think it is something brought off by the imaginative ___ of words and sentences. (选词填空statement, improvement, requirement, employment)相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 [答案]employment [解析]考查名词。statement说明,陈述;improvement 改进,更新;requirement...
Simply put, a metaphor states that one thing is another thing. It’s used to make a comparison between two objects that aren't alike but have something in common.
Following Grice (1975), Searle (1993), Martinich (1984), and Camp (2006), I believe there is good reason to treat metaphor as what a speaker means, but does not say. I qualify my view by briefly sketching how it departs from the classical Gricean view....
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison. Here are the basics: A metaphor states that one thing is another thing It equates those two things not because they actually are the...
The target domain is the experience being described by the metaphor and the source domain is the means that we use in order to describe the experience. Therefore, we can say that in traditional rhetoric,metaphor emphasizes the transfer of qualities, and the omission of words likelike and as ...
mixed metaphor,dead metaphor,conceptual metaphor etc.Metaphor is a Greek word that means transfer.It is a trope which means that it is the figurative use of an expression.A famous example of metaphor is "All the world's a stage" by Shakespeare.Some other instances are "he was wading in ...
Metaphor (transitive) To describe by means of a metaphor. Metaphor The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea. Metaphor A figure of speech in which an expression is us...
The rise of information theory aided and abetted a new view of life. The genetic code—no longer a mere metaphor—was being deciphered. Scientists spoke grandly of thebiosphere: an entity composed of all the earth’s life-forms, teeming with information, replicating and evolving. And biologist...
One example of a dead metaphor is describing someone as a "laughing stock." We know it means that someone is completely humiliated and isn't taken seriously at all. It comes from the times when courts punished people by placing their hands and arms in stocks. People would come up to ridi...