The use of war as metaphor is a longstanding literary and rhetorical trope. In political usage, war metaphors are used to manage a perceived societal problem...
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ideas. Metaphors are usually meant to create a likeness or an analogy. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, such as antithesis...
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World War II, sexual activities are described as if they are actions in a game of baseball. Baseball has also served as the context for metaphors about...
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In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another...
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War metaphors are often used to describe a person's experience with cancer. Those who have died are said to have lost their "battle with cancer", while...
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War among the people War and environmental law War artist War as metaphor War bond War bonnet War bride War cabinet War canoe War chest War chief War...
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The Cassandra metaphor (variously labeled the Cassandra "syndrome", "complex", "phenomenon", "predicament", "dilemma", "curse") relates to a person whose...
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An extended metaphor, also known as a conceit or sustained metaphor, is the use of a single metaphor or analogy at length in a work of literature. It differs...
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bellum Syrian civil war The Report from Iron Mountain War as metaphor War Is a Racket Manchanda, Amav (Winter 2008). "THE FOREVER WAR/TELL ME HOW THIS ENDS:...
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George Lakoff (category Metaphor theorists)
Metaphor and War: The Metaphor System Used to Justify War in the Persian Gulf (1991), he argues that the American involvement in the Persian Gulf War...
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