How do we determine the intended meaning of a metaphor?
Title: How do we determine the intended meaning of a metaphor?
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How do we determine the intended meaning of a metaphor?
Category: /Society & Culture/Education
Details: Words: 2030 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
When Ralph Waldo Emerson said that "all men are poets at heart," he might have been exposing a deeper truth than he realized. For even in the coldest, most calculating of minds there are indeed wisps of pure poetry. The metaphor, metaphore, or metaphora is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denotes one kind of object or idea used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between …showed first 75 words of 2030 total…
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