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Sentence count:210+6Posted:2016-07-20Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: photographphotographerphotographyset apartmetaltaptapephoneMeaning: ['metəfɔr /'metəfə,'metəfɔː]  n. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity. 
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31. Metaphor is the dominant structuring mechanism of the novels, stylized transcription of consciousness their fictional mode.
32. To draw and write on skin provides its own metaphor of the corporeal and the transcendent.
33. It is moot whether it should be treated as metaphor or not.
34. Metaphor is no mere tourist in a foreign land, it is a bootlegger.
35. Because of its close connection with metaphor, simile may also be considered here.
36. In this sense athletics offer a metaphor of the entire dilemma of liberation.
37. I think the metaphor is close but not quite correct.
38. As a metaphor for the modern mountaineer, the life of Captain Ahab has some disturbing parallels.
39. Through metaphor Thoreau renders the self and nature in total interrelationship without slighting either half of the duality.
40. However you should exercise caution in how far you extend a metaphor.
41. This is paradox, rather than metaphor: two directly opposed concepts, life and death, change places with each other.
42. Geographical paralysis becomes a bitter metaphor for their entire existence.
43. When natural philosophers referred to laws of nature, they were not glibly choosing that metaphor.
44. To put it simply, the family metaphor is: there are fathers and sons and one day the sons will inherit.
45. Some of it was produced at the height of the terror, when rage had to be concealed under layers of metaphor.
46. The passages that follow illustrate the mechanics of this type of metaphor.
47. You can see it as a metaphor for the way we live now.
48. As regards metaphor,(www.Sentencedict.com) the cognitive approach appears to share something of both semantics and pragmatics.
49. Dreams, of course, are a rich source of inspiration and guidance, as well as excellent training in thinking in metaphor.
50. The economic and the political are out of kilter; to use a homely metaphor, it is like bike gears crunching.
51. The term suggests an element of danger, certainly of risk, a military metaphor applied to western cultural practices.
52. Returning to the original metaphor of this chapter, the patient is taken into dangerous and unexplored territories of inner space.
53. As in Out, the invasions operated by metaphor both subvert authority and threaten personal security.
54. Although the word reengineering dominates business jargon, as a metaphor for organizational change, it has become wildly imprecise.
55. Univel will ensure their programmes are integrated into Destiny's Mac-like desktop metaphor and that appropriate icons are provided.
56. This is a dead metaphor in the standard language, and so will attract little notice.
57. This is a suitable metaphor after the rain pouring from leaden skies which greeted the All Blacks to training yesterday.
58. Metaphor, it turns out, is the key to making computers comprehensible.
59. Fire here becomes a metaphor for the suddenness of the event.
60. A more organic metaphor is needed to describe the process of transition.
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