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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

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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)...

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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...

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...

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...

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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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...

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drummer Albert Bouchard. The lyrics describe the devastation of nuclear war with metaphors likening the destruction to rock and roll music. Cash Box called it...

published as a book. The film stars Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn and is based on the events of the 1966 incident on Hill 192 during the Vietnam War, in which...

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...

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"...

variations of the phrase "Dogs of War." Victor Hugo used "dogs of war" as a metaphor for cannon fire in chapter XIV of Les Misérables: Another cannonade...

relations of metonymy. Both metonymy and metaphor involve the substitution of one term for another. In metaphor, this substitution is based on some specific...