A dead metaphor is a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning by extensive, repetitive, and popular usage, or because it refers...
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, refers to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities...
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In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another...
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his guilt. From this arose the image of an albatross around the neck as metaphor for a burden that is difficult to escape. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...
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Down the rabbit hole (category Metaphors referring to rabbits and hares)
paralysis Comprehension of idioms Dead metaphor English-language idioms Red pill and blue pill Tunnel vision (metaphor) Wiki rabbit hole Schulz, Kathryn...
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The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", "curse") relates to a person whose...
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Company John Logan's Red Ken Neptune Theatre 2014 George F. Walker's Dead Metaphor Dean Canadian Repertory Theatre / Panasonic Theatre 2015 Creditors Adolf...
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The Dead Sea Apes is a Quran story of dwellers by the Dead Sea who were transformed into apes for breaking the Sabbath. It is also a metaphor used, for...
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primary meaning of cinaedus never died out; the term never became a dead metaphor." The late Greek Erôtes ("Loves", "Forms of Desire", "Affairs of the...
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Break a leg (category All articles with dead external links)
"good luck". An ironic or non-literal saying of uncertain origin (a dead metaphor), "break a leg" is commonly said to actors and musicians before they...
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1085239. ISSN 2056-6093. Warren, E. Janet (2012). "'Spiritual Warfare': A Dead Metaphor?". Journal of Pentecostal Theology. 21 (2): 278–297. doi:10.1163/17455251-02102007...
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reference to any "rock" or any "roll"; lock, stock, and barrel is a dead metaphor that refers only to a figurative sense of a lock or stock or barrel...
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contested concept Glittering generality The Symbolic Dangling pointer Dead metaphor "Oxford Reference Overview: floating signifier". Oxford University Press...
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and Variety stated that whereas Romero used the shopping mall to stage a metaphor about consumer society, Snyder used it merely as a convenient shelter for...
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Connotation - Context - Contrast - Consonance -Cordel literature - Couplet Dead metaphor - Detail - Denouement - Description - Dialect - Dialogue - Diary - Didactic...
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A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible...
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In linguistics, the conduit metaphor is a dominant class of figurative expressions invoked when linguists discuss communication itself (metalanguage)....
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Southerners, who presumably are expected to embrace one whopping brain-dead metaphor." Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News wrote: "This is a movie where...
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six Living Dead movies, it is preceded by Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead, and succeeded by Diary of the Dead and Survival...
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List of plants with symbolism (redirect from Floral metaphor)
yellow together Joy, happiness and excitement thornless Love at first sight dead sweet memories bud (red) Beauty, purity, love, youth bud (white) Girlhood;...
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S2CID 222094116. Warren, E. Janet (2012). "'Spiritual Warfare': A Dead Metaphor?". Journal of Pentecostal Theology. 21 (2): 278–297. doi:10.1163/17455251-02102007...
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ngram dataset and the Corpus of Historical American English. Calque Dead metaphor Euphemism treadmill False friend Formal thought disorder Genericized...
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about the zombie genre and its metaphors for our undead society?" George Romero won a 2008 Critics Award for Diary of the Dead at the Festival international...
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"good luck". An ironic or non-literal saying of uncertain origin (a dead metaphor), "break a leg" is commonly said to actors and musicians before they...
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Simile (category All articles with dead external links)
are often contrasted with metaphors. Similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit...
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Cuckoo search (category All articles with dead external links)
accurate algorithm for numerical simulation of Lévy stable stochastic processes[dead link], Physical Review E, Vol.49, 4677-4683 (1994). M. Leccardi, Comparison...
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Thousand Islands Playhouse), All That Fall (2010, Theatre Columbus), Dead Metaphor (2014, Canadian Rep Theatre), Age of Arousal (2015, Factory Theatre)...
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applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good"). Lederer (1990), in the spirit...
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Zombie (category All articles with dead external links)
equality, and the human–zombie romantic relationship is interpreted as a metaphor for sexual liberation and taboo breaking (given that zombies are subject...
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Boiling frog (category Metaphors referring to animals)
perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of...
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