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The 56 pages that link to Metaphor, each with the reason it gives.

• AllegoryRelated: Allegorical narratives can unfold a metaphor across characters and events.

• AllusionRelated: An allusion can supply the source behind a metaphor’s implied comparison.

• ElegyRelated: Images of seasons, journeys, and ruins let elegies represent loss indirectly.

• Semantic changeRelated: Repeated metaphorical uses can become conventional meanings.

• ImageryRelated: A metaphor can make an abstract idea perceptible through a concrete image.

• Erotic literatureRelated: Metaphor can represent sexual experience indirectly, especially where explicit language is restricted.

• Popular scienceRelated: Metaphors create vivid explanations but can also imply misleading scientific mechanisms.

• JuxtapositionRelated: Juxtaposed images can imply a metaphor by inviting viewers to transfer meaning between them.

• ProverbRelated: Proverbs often use metaphor to turn an observation into a memorable image.

• Arabic rhetoricRelated: Arabic bayān analyzes metaphor as a transfer of meaning between domains.

• Raymond ChandlerRelated: Chandler’s startling metaphors make his descriptions as memorable as his plots.

• Animal symbolismRelated: Calling someone a lion or fox transfers selected animal qualities to human roles.

• Hebrew poetryRelated: Images such as God as shepherd turn abstract claims into concrete poetic scenes.

• Paul CelanRelated: Celan’s recurring images make violence and memory present without reducing them to exposition.

• Book of ProverbsRelated: Images of paths, harvests, and fire turn moral consequences into concrete scenes.

• HyperboleRelated: Hyperbole may combine with metaphor to make an imagined comparison deliberately excessive.

• SuggestionRelated: Metaphorical comparisons can suggest qualities without naming them directly.

• Language and thoughtRelated: Metaphorical language can reveal how familiar conceptual structures organize abstract thought.

• René MagritteRelated: His images invite metaphorical readings without settling on one fixed symbolic meaning.

• Second Epistle to TimothyRelated: The soldier, athlete, and farmer images make endurance and discipline vivid in the letter.

• María ZambranoRelated: Her philosophical prose uses images and metaphors to convey what discursive argument alone cannot.

• Paul RicœurRelated: Ricœur argues that living metaphor redescribes reality rather than merely decorating language.

• Sonnet 18Related: The beloved’s beauty is measured against summer, whose flaws make the comparison unstable.

• StylisticsRelated: Metaphorical choices shape conceptual framing and can make a text’s imagery distinctive.

• Parables of JesusRelated: Parables often extend metaphor into a brief scene or narrative.

• Blowin' in the WindRelated: Wind makes the elusive answer vivid without defining what it is.

• Harry MartinsonRelated: He uses natural and technological images to make abstract ideas tangible.

• Literary deviceRelated: It creates meaning by transferring qualities between unlike things.

• PoetRelated: Poets use metaphor to compress associations and make abstract ideas tangible.

• Song of SongsRelated: The lovers praise each other through vivid comparisons to landscapes, animals, and objects.

• EthnolinguisticsRelated: Conventional metaphors can expose shared cultural models embedded in ordinary language.

• Herta MüllerRelated: Her compressed images give bodily and material shape to fear and political oppression.

• ImaginismRelated: Imaginists sought novel, striking metaphors rather than conventional poetic expressions.

• Lil WayneRelated: His lyrics frequently use extended and startling metaphorical comparisons.

• Matryoshka dollRelated: The nested dolls supply an image for layers hidden within a person or system.

• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of DespairRelated: Neruda’s lovers and landscapes repeatedly become metaphors for one another.

• Acmeist poetryRelated: Acmeist poems use figurative language without abandoning tangible reference.

• AffectRelated: Metaphors can frame experiences in ways that imply strong emotional evaluation.

• Bei DaoRelated: His images often carry political and personal meanings without stating them directly.

• O Captain! My Captain!Related: The ship’s voyage and captain transform the Union’s war and Lincoln’s leadership.

• Polish School of PostersRelated: Poster artists used visual metaphor to suggest a film, play, or idea without depicting it literally.

• Ultraist movementRelated: Ultraists treated metaphor as a poem’s central engine rather than ornament.