------------------------------------------------- Time and Space Metaphors in LI Bai’s “Shu-dao Nan” (Risky Road to Sichuan) ------------------------------------------------- Vanessa Cai Course：Psychological‚ Mythological and Archetypal Approaches to Literature Date: 2012/5/10 Generally acknowledged that LI Bai created “Shu-dao Nan” approximately in 742-744 BC‚ Changan‚ the capital city of Tang Dynasty‚ for his friend WANG Yan who prepared to go to Sichuan. LI Bai warned his friend to
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with the idea. London views the world as a Darwinist‚ or with the theory of natural selection. He sees the world with a sense of cold reality‚ where the strongest must fight and thrive to keep a place in the world. Jack London uses simile and metaphor to describe the cold reality that the world is a harsh place to live in. London conveys how he feels about
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influential metaphors‚ leading the way for many of the others is that by Posner (1980). Posner (1980) came up with the spotlight metaphor to space based visual attention‚ believing that when attend to areas like a spotlight illuminates areas‚ ready to be processed. Information outside the spotlight is not processed as much and some believe it is not processed at all. The spotlight can move around flexibly to any areas of interest. There has been lots of evidence for the spotlight metaphor including
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in the Short Stories Kiss Me and The Metaphor The short story Kiss Me by Andrew Pyper and the text The Metaphor by Budge Wilson deal primarily with the motion of social perception. In the literary work Kiss Me‚ the narrator is an ordinary man until he is the victim of an life changing accident. This accident leaves him disfigured‚ remorseful‚ and full of self-pity as he struggles to obtain the regular way life he once knew. The protagonist from The Metaphor is a young student named Charlotte who
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Previously‚ I‚ along with many of my fellow collegues‚ attended the Carey Lecture‚ “Metaphors We Die By: How Patterns of Communication Can Become Deadly” presented by John Lyne. I found a few of the points to be very interesting but I also found myself at times confused or lost. I believe this to be‚ in part‚ from the way in which John Lyne spoke. It’s not that he did not express the ideas well but rather that his nervousness was extremely present. Despite having a manuscript during the speech
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Contrastive Analysis of the Conceptual Metaphor LIFE IS A JOURNEY in English and its Equivalent in Vietnamese Department of English Ho Chi Minh University of Education Instructor: Bui Nguyen Khanh Ho Chi Minh City‚ June 19th‚ 2013 1 I. ABSTRACT Since its introduction in 1980‚ the publication “Metaphors We Live By” by Mark Johnson and George Lackoff has successfully persuaded the readers to see all metaphors in a new light. The 1980 classic maintains that metaphorical expressions
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entire story‚ though slightly dramaticized. Dickens shares the good parts of different lifestyles‚ as well as the bad parts. Overall‚ we can learn much from this book‚ and enjoy it because of Dickens use of colorful metaphors‚ accurate dialect‚ and vivid characterization. Colorful metaphors are used often during Great Expectations. Dickens uses them
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DESCRIBE TWO OF THE ORGANISATIONAL METAPHORS STUDIED AND DISCUSS THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF EACH. This essay explores the concept of studying organisation styles metaphorically‚ particularly as perceived by Gareth Morgan (1986). The essay begins by describing two of the organisational metaphors‚ specifically the mechanistic organisation and the organisation as a brain being the most diverse of the metaphors used. It then reviews the interpretation of theorists writing on the subject
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It is a Sin to Kill Tom Robinson"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs‚ they don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. That’s why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird." (90) This quote is stated by Miss Maudie‚ underscoring the point of view of Atticus‚ who is a lawyer given an uphill job of substantiating a black man’s innocence who is accused of raping a white woman‚ Mayella Ewells. To Kill a Mockingbird
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In the study of literature‚ an understanding of how language creates meaning is essential. One way that writers heighten or create meaning is through the use of literary allusions. In the play Wit‚ by Margaret Edson‚ a sustained allusion to the Holy Sonnets of John Donne enhances the work’s meaning when it is personified through the depiction of the life and death of Vivian Bearing. Though Vivian finally reaches a deeper understanding of humanity‚ she does so at great expense. To make her spiritual
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