Collocations withmetaphor
These are words often used in combination withmetaphor.
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central metaphor
The vast body of evidence presented and referred to in the target article demonstrates the heuristic value of the central metaphor.
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conceptual metaphor
Indeed, elaborations at this more specific level may, perhaps more plausibly, give rise to the more general abstractions in evidence in conceptual metaphor theory.
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extended metaphor
It is difficult to do justice to a work of scholarship that is written in the form of an extended metaphor.
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spatial metaphor
This pervasive spatial metaphor encapsulates local notions of identity and authenticity.
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visual metaphor
With linked arms, they gather themselves inward as a group, a visual metaphor for the acoustic unity for which the ensemble was famous.
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