Sentence examples for form of metaphor from inspiring English sources

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The production by Richard Jones, however, puts forward a sociopolitical interpretation in the form of metaphor: the ongoing construction of what looks like a modest Bavarian country house.

At other times, Maxwell's frequently tortuous syntax seems less like an alternate form of metaphor, as it is in the book's fine closing poem, "The Snow Village," than a symptom of inattention.

Some interlocutors synonymize them (e.g., Hoffman 1980; Brown 2003), others reduce one to the other (analogy is a form of metaphor, Geary 2011; metaphor is a kind of analogy, Gentner 1982, 2003), and yet others bracket one to focus on the other (e.g., Oppenheimer 1956 sets aside metaphor).

Allegories, a form of metaphor common in literary works, are also an artistic device used for visual symbolic representation.

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All his guidance was in the form of metaphors, like 'What does it sound like to be on fire?', or 'Just imagine when you tell somebody a joke and it's not very good and their reaction's a bit stilted'".

The actual attitudinal trigger is crafted as a rhetorical question incorporating an implied comparison (item (6c), Fig. 2) teamed with an explicit token of Attitude in the form of lexical metaphor, 'cutting edge': Where's the cutting edge rock to be found?

More to the point, and perhaps more digestibly, metarealism employs a form of non-visual metaphor called "metabole" to juxtapose separate realities (as metaphors do) without getting locked into the descriptive function that typifies discussion of individual planes of reality (a failing of metaphors).

Set in Louisiana in the early '30s, "Hard Times" begins with a writerly gesture in the form of a visualized metaphor: a freight train that pulls slowly and steadily into the shot, a massive force moving along as quietly and confidently as will Bronson's character, Chaney, who is revealed as an unpaying passenger looking out from the shadowy interior of a boxcar.

Furthermore, as a form of knowledge representation, metaphor use is constrained by boundaries of an epistemic community.

Comic relief came during a recap of the varnam, in the form of a Tamil metaphor for lovers: a "creeper" vine and a tree.

Terms drew Kaepernick's 115-pound, 15-year-old tortoise on the shirt because it represented "quiet encouragement" in the form of being a metaphor for the fable of the tortoise and the hare.

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