Sentence examples for of each metaphor from inspiring English sources

Below are examples of each metaphor category13.

We obtained type frequencies of the five metaphors to inform us of their relative productivity and identified the MET of each metaphor category as an index of the entrenchment and pervasiveness of particular metaphor tokens.

Each piece benefited from his profound grasp of materials, of metaphor and of his own emotional state.

Table 4 shows the MEMT of each of the metaphor categories and the total article entries featuring each token.

Sleeping By the Mississippi showed Soth's instinctive grasp of narrative and metaphor, each image carefully chosen to articulate – and accentuate – his sense of the US, and the south in particular, as a place haunted by ghosts and individuals who are slightly adrift from, or wilfully outside, the norm.

It's like a kind of metaphor of the strength of girls.

Mr. Johnson, like a seasoned crime writer, sets the scene and then introduces a series of increasingly intriguing metaphors, each of which unveils another aspect of Q.C., as I'll call it.

So it's a kind of metaphor of fate".

There's really no question: When it comes to pop songs about spherical implements of destruction, Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" beats Lea Michele's "Cannonball" in every way, not least in the matter of each song's central metaphor.

To me, the mark of time added this layer of metaphor".

At the heart of each of these genres is metaphor, and at the core of metaphor is riddle with its associate, proverb.