Metaphor
71frozen metaphor — noun a metaphor that has occurred so often that it has become a new meaning of the expression (e.g., he is a snake may once have been a metaphor but after years of use it has died and become a new sense of the word snake ) • Syn: ↑dead metaphor • …
72Copernican Revolution (metaphor) — The Copernican Revolution, which in terms of astronomy amounted to the acceptance of heliocentrism as suggested by Nicolaus Copernicus, has also been used widely as a metaphor supporting descriptions of modernity. A particularly prominent case… …
73Illness as Metaphor — is a nonfiction work written by Susan Sontag and published in 1978. She wrote it during her own fight against breast cancer and challenged the blame the victim mentality behind the language society often uses to describe diseases and those who… …
74stale metaphor — noun A metaphor which has lost its impact due to overuse. at the end of the day is a stale metaphor because the football commentator uses it every five minutes …
75dead metaphor — noun A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal, e.g. electric current (electricity was at first thought to be analogous to water). Not to be confused with stale metaphor (a type of cliché), although it… …
76simile, metaphor — A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable. This is done in order to suggest a resemblance: She is a perfect lamb. Metaphor and simile are allied in meaning; a simile …
77simile, metaphor — Both are figures of speech in which two things are compared. A simile likens one thing to another, dissimilar one: He ran like the wind. A metaphor acts as if the two compared things are identical and substitutes one for the other; thus… …
78mixed metaphor — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms mixed metaphor : singular mixed metaphor plural mixed metaphors linguistics a combination of metaphors that sounds silly because it creates a strange image in your mind She s forever using mixed metaphors like… …
79mixed metaphor — see metaphor and simile 2 …
80synesthetic metaphor — noun a metaphor that exploits a similarity between experiences in different sense modalities • Hypernyms: ↑metaphor …
