Daniel M. Gross, Metaphor and Definition in Vico's New Science, Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Autumn 1996), pp. 359-381 ...

Metaphor is to pedagogy, what foreplay is to love. It prepares our understanding with lightness and gentleness. Rather than going straight to the lesson of experience, metaphor is a kindly detour that ...

Spanish: Pues. . . . One reason the metaphor of the sun fascinates me is that it bears on a conflict that has been at the heart of information science since its inception: Can meaning be described ...

Figures of speech are used every day in our lives. Here is what a metaphor is and examples of how it is used.

Another was a metaphor using the same verb: "The church bent the rules." In the third sentence, the verb was replaced with a more abstract word that conveyed the same meaning as the metaphor: "The ...

Geneticists deploy a striking range of metaphors to communicate their science, to promote its value and to suggest its social meaning to the public. So too, critics of science and special interest ...

From Open Letters Monthly: “Perhaps the simplest way to think about metaphor is as the connection formed when meaning is transferred from one thing to another.