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    Backgammon Metaphors

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    Why are Senet boards found among other funerary objects? Though enjoyed by almost everyone‚ why have no written rules ever been found? The exact role of Senet will most likely remain unknown‚ but most experts agree that the game was laden with metaphors of the journey to and existence in the afterlife. Senet table Like backgammon‚ contestants aimed at getting their seven pieces off the board completely. Players threw sticks or bones — precursors to dice — to determine the

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    Analysis Metaphor

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    Mr. Silva ENG/100 April 16‚ 2013 Analysis of Metaphor of Two Turkish Videos Understanding the branding strategies of any company or business goes beyond the listing of a set of steps which can effectively summarize and target their buyers. The entire strategy of branding a product revolves around a company’s response to the changing dynamics of consumer psychology. In an effort to unscramble the complexities involved in the branding steps undertaken by the two Turkish commercials for Pepsi‚

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    Engineering and Metaphor

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    What is a Metaphor ? A Metaphor is an “expression of an understanding of one concept in terms of another concept‚ where there is some similarity or correlation between the two” according to the LinguaLinks Library. Metaphors are used by anyone trying to convey an idea in an indirect manner. We use them daily without realizing it. Metaphors put a twist in daily language in that they are a unique way of describing a concept. There are common metaphors that we use everyday and

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    Literature Review on Metaphors From the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics The definition of metaphor   Traditionally‚ metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by saying that one is the other‚ as in “He is a tiger”. It is a property of words‚ and is used for some artistic and rhetorical purpose. However‚ this view has been challenged recently by cognitive linguists (Liu & Wen‚ 2012: 249). Cognitive linguists and philosophers have shown that metaphors are not just a

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    Family and Metaphor

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    parents. Interview them‚ using the questions and elements you have chosen. For your writing‚ you will need a metaphor. The metaphor in our book was the loom- the author used it to weave together all the elements of her mother’s life into a single fabric. You could use a car‚ a cake‚ a computer- anything which has components. The components come together to create one thing. Choose a metaphor which has meaning to you- your writing will be much more powerful this way. Finally‚ put your chosen cultural

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    Task One: Simile Simile (noun)- a comparison of objects using like or as “And upon a bank overlooking a bed in the big stream we found wild strawberries almost as bright as the red epaulets on the wings of the blackbirds.” (North‚ 37) It strengthens the writing by emphasizing how red the strawberries are so we can “picture”what the strawberries look like in our minds (mental picture/imagery). Task Two: Smile He [Sterling] was as competent as a dolphin. *I compared Sterling to a dolphin since dolphins

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    power of metaphor

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    Metaphor—a literary technique used to clarify the “darkness inside a cloud” (Selection 2). The power of metaphor is utilized throughout the world of language on a daily basis to clarify‚ explain‚ and act as a moral instrument. Metaphor can be described‚ as it was by Cynthia Ozick‚ author of The Shawl‚ as “the mind’s opposable thumb”: just as one cannot grasp objects without an opposable thumb‚ one can also not write successfully without the aid of metaphor (Selection 1). Metaphor evidently has great

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    Metaphors In Science

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    Metaphor in Science”: Using Language as a Tool With or without knowing it‚ we all use metaphor to explain things around us. It helps us understand things we cannot see with naked eyes or express things we cannot normally experience. Metaphor is a bridge that connects two different ideas and lets us explore and understand those concepts fully. Just like metaphor plays a big role in everyday language usages‚ it also helps shape our understanding of science language. Metaphor helps extend our understanding

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    Organizational Metaphors

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    Organizational Metaphors A metaphor for an organization is a phrase that determines how and what we think about organizations. Organizational metaphors shape the way we think about organizations and affect how we work and make decisions (McCrimmon‚ 2012). Organizational metaphors help people to see‚ manage‚ and understand everything we need to know about an organization. Gareth Morgan proposed eight metaphors of organizations that explain the elements of an organization in a metaphorical way and

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    Emotion and Metaphor

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    We all use metaphors in our everyday lives. We use them to make a point‚ to make the language more alive or simply because some metaphors have become the correct word to describe something (also known as a dead metaphor. In the book “The Philosophy of Rhetoric” I.A. Richards describes the metaphor as consisting of two parts; the tenor (the subject) and the vehicle (the metaphor). When we say that somebody has “a heart of gold”‚ no one thinks that this is actually the case. But the phrase gives a

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