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... metaphor is intuitive . Suppose we were to analyze the metaphor by breaking it down into a ratio : sun : earth : : Gandhi : India We would not really be describing the process of metaphor , which is synthetic in nature , “ ... the ...
... metaphor is intuitive . Suppose we were to analyze the metaphor by breaking it down into a ratio : sun : earth : : Gandhi : India We would not really be describing the process of metaphor , which is synthetic in nature , “ ... the ...
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... metaphor.41 Osborn and Ehninger consider metaphor a process of three stages : " error , puzzlement - recoil , and resolution . " 42 Error occurs when the listener falls into the habit of taking the word at its literal meaning . For ...
... metaphor.41 Osborn and Ehninger consider metaphor a process of three stages : " error , puzzlement - recoil , and resolution . " 42 Error occurs when the listener falls into the habit of taking the word at its literal meaning . For ...
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... metaphors being used as part of an overall theme is the Gettysburg Address , which , as noted in Chapter 1 , is dominated by the metaphor of birth and rebirth . A metaphor depends for its effectiveness on affective potency and its shock ...
... metaphors being used as part of an overall theme is the Gettysburg Address , which , as noted in Chapter 1 , is dominated by the metaphor of birth and rebirth . A metaphor depends for its effectiveness on affective potency and its shock ...
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