The plantation metaphor refers to a popular theory on the right.
In example (c), there is no proper name for the thing that the metaphor refers to.
In order to understand a metaphor, the hearer has to find something common between the metaphor and the thing the metaphor refers to.
Lastly, logical grammatical metaphor refers to 'the condensation of meaning in an incongruent way at the level of … organization of … discourse' (Colombi 2006: 157).
The golfing metaphor referred to Romney's Convention-style acceptance of the G.O.P. nomination: "After forty-three primandes and caucuses, many long days and more than a few long nights, I can say with confidence — and gratitude — that you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility.
Technical debt is a software engineering metaphor, referring to the eventual financial consequences of trade-offs between shrinking product time to market and poorly specifying, or implementing a software product, throughout all development phases.
The lyric "I know you wanna bite this/ It's so enticing/ Nothing else like this, I'ma make you my bitch/ And it's not even my birthday/ But you wanna put your name on it" is a metaphor referring to a vagina.
Dr. Buchanan, an austere man with a severe aspect that many students found intimidating, often spoke of complex phenomena in metaphors, referring, for example, to politics as a game and to the Constitution as its rules.
Their wedding on April 24 began with a ceremony in the Conservatory Garden in Central Park, at which even the Rev. Philippa A. Turner, an Episcopal priest, resorted to architectural metaphors, referring to the "strong foundations" of the couple's marriage.
We struck oil!" A young Yemeni poet spoke in passionate if mixed metaphors, referring, in the same sentence, to the kingdom's jewels and mountains, and the Saudis' relationship with the Yemenis, calling the two nations "the two sides of a heart".
Experiential metaphors refer to actions/processes or qualities of things realized as Things in texts, whereas logical metaphors build logical relations within clause, as in the example below: The enlargement of Australia's steel-making capacity, and of chemicals, rubber, metal goods, and motor vehicles all owed something to the demands of war.
