The use of war as metaphor is a longstanding literary and rhetorical trope. In political usage, war metaphors are used to manage a perceived societal problem...

War metaphors are often used to describe a person's experience with cancer. Those who have died are said to have lost their "battle with cancer", while...

ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy. Analysts group metaphors with other types of figurative language, such as hyperbole...

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Metaphor: ReFantazio is a 2024 role-playing video game developed by Studio Zero and published by Atlus. Metaphor: ReFantazio was first announced under...

World War II, sexual activities are described as if they are actions in a game of baseball. Baseball has also served as the context for metaphors about...

Roman–Persian Wars, noted for being "never-ending" by classical authors Si vis pacem, para bellum Syrian civil war The Report from Iron Mountain War as metaphor War...

In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another...

Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Persian Gulf (1991), he argues that the American involvement in the Persian Gulf War...

Metaphors We Live By is a book by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson published in 1980. The book suggests metaphor is a tool that enables people to use what...

most known in the United Kingdom is the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance of the fallen in war. Language of flowers – cryptological communication...

future. As historian Louis Pérez argued in his book Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos, the Spanish–American War of 1898...

Look up war or war- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A war is a large-scale armed conflict and the term is used as a metaphor for non-military conflicts...

"Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" is an academic paper published in 2012 by scholars Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. The paper argues that decolonization...

The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", "curse") relates to a person whose...

humiliation at the hands of Japan caused the conflict to be viewed as a metaphor for the shortcomings of the Romanov autocracy. This discontent added...

own ruin Carthaginian peace – Brutal peace imposed after war Cassandra (metaphor) – Metaphor originating from Greek mythology John Henryism – Strategy...

Century A la recherche du soldat perdu: Myth, Metaphor and Memory in the French Cinema of the Algerian War. Berghahan Books. p. 144. Brett, Michael (1994)...

An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is the use of a single metaphor or analogy at length in a work of literature. It differs...

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products of natural selection – survival machines, in Richard Dawkins metaphor – should, by default, do whatever helps them survive and reproduce.". On...

the Islamic State also emerged as a key adversary of the United States. The term "war on terror" uses war as a metaphor to describe a variety of actions...

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conjuncts instead of Indic text. The Sino-Indian War, also known as the China–India War or the Indo-China War, was an armed conflict between China and India...

conducted after the mobilizations had begun were ignored. Hence the metaphor "war by timetable". Russia ordered a partial mobilization on 25 July against...

described by the media as a czar of some kind. Advice and consent Politics of the United States during World War II War as metaphor In 2019, a "border czar"...

the experiences of a man observing the war from a hotel room in Beirut; the titular dominoes act as metaphors for bombs falling on the Lebanese capital...

Strombo (October 31, 2013). Chuck Palahniuk On Death, Grief, World War Z And Using Metaphor In A "Really Overblown Way". Archived from the original on November...

called trade disputes when the war metaphor is hyperbolic. Trade wars could be escalated to full conflict between states as evidenced in the Massacre of...

for the hunter-gatherer tribal societies of the Mesolithic, but only as a metaphor. A society's Golden Age marks that period in its history having a heightened...