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Metaphor Lists Most Popular!!

An index of metaphor lists from different sources.

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Computer Metaphors NEW!!

The world of computing uses many metaphors.

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Family Metaphors NEW!!

These metaphors will be awfully familiar!

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Metaphor Essays

A long list of metaphor essays on many topics.

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A list of tests and exercises for students and teachers.

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2005 Top Ten Metaphors

 

Metaphor Research Assignment #1 

Discover metaphor in the etymology of everyday words! NEW!!

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Weather Metaphors NEW!!

The forecast calls for some scattered metaphors.

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Cooking Metaphors NEW!!

Serving a tasty assortment of bite-size metaphors!

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Fishing Metaphors NEW!!

Our catch of the day...metaphorically speaking!

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Farming Metaphors NEW!!

Pick your own metaphor from our bumper crop!

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Thanksgiving: "A Lot on My Plate" NEW!!

Why we don't eat our peas - metaphorically!

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Nicknames, Pet Names and Metaphors NEW!!

The significance of metaphor in pet names.

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Living and Dead Metaphors

Distinguishing between the two basic types of metaphor. Includes an exercise!

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Metaphor and Simile

Find out the difference between the two, and why they're easily mixed up.

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Metaphor Systems in Speeches

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Flowers, Chocolates and Valentine's Day 

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Real World Metaphors

Metaphors of space, time, energy, matter.

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Sensory Metaphors

Metaphors of our senses of sight, taste, touch, hearing and smell.

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Dueling Metaphors 

Aesop's "The Tortoise and the Hare" provides us with an example of metaphor used for comparison - and political propaganda!   

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Funny Metaphors  

Why are some metaphors so popular? Because they are both funny and effective. Here are a few choice examples. 

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Conceptual Metaphor In Language

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Polysemy, Metonymy and Metaphor

A comparison using the word "Ship".

 

 

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A brand new blog that observes metaphor usage in contemporary media. Have a look at what's happening in today's metaphor - and what it tells us about ourselves. Updated often.

 

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Metaphor In Other Languages

 

An experimental feature for ESL students and language lovers alike. See the word "metaphor" (and eventually its definition and examples)  in other languages. Corrections welcome!

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This website is dedicated to the proposal that the metaphorical relationships drawn between any two disciplines are, in fact, universal, being isomorphic mathematical derivations of the Unified Field Theory. Further, that this symmetric aspect of metaphor is extrapolatable both linearly and laterally, thus may be harnessed to mathematically predict missing knowledge and invention in all other disciplines.

"The metaphor reminds us that the universe is full of cousins." - J.D. Casnig

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Casnig, John D. 1997-2006. A Language of Metaphors. Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Knowgramming.com

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