The types of metaphorical causality (logical metaphor) include all the possible types (cause as verb, cause as noun, cause as adjective and cause as preposition).
As an instance of an ambiguous news headline he offers "Manufacturing data helps invigorate Wall Street", and his samples of risibly inept metaphor include "No one has yet invented a condom that will knock people's socks off".
Lewis likes extended metaphors, including the mixed variety.
Stone sings with Marley before a fantastically awkward Jagger emerges to drawl a litany of medical metaphors, including "no need for anaesthetics, I'm gonna check your chart".
This broad metaphor also lent itself to sub-metaphors, including object-icons such as a rubbish bin (also the work of Mr Mercer when he worked at Apple in the 1980s), folders and files.
The landscape of the new memorial is largely inspired by imagery from the 1963 "I have a dream" speech, drawing literally on metaphors, including the "stone of hope" hewn from the "mountain of despair".
Their lyrics are a no-man's-land of depressing metaphors, including the love song Fire (their biggest hit, and tonight's encore), which likens sexual attraction to murder.
Johnson was singled out for her novel's slew of animal metaphors, including comparing her male protagonist's "light fingers" to "a moth caught inside a lampshade", and his tongue to "a cat lapping up a dish of cream so as not to miss a single drop".
Synthetic biology is an outstanding example of a technoscientific discourse replete with metaphors, including textual metaphors such as the "Morse code" of life, the "barcode" of life and the "book" of life.
Several regions showed greater activity to metaphors as compared to non-metaphors, including left and right inferior frontal gyrus, right superior temporal gyrus, left angular gyrus, and anterior cingulate.
Also, several other programs have demonstrated a capacity to analyze or generate various examples of metaphors, including the Structure Mapping Engine (SME) (Falkenhainer et al. 1989), Met* (Fass 1991), ATT-Meta (Barnden 2001), KARMA (Narayanan 1997) and others.
