Metaphor is a paradoxical detour. It moves away from what it explains to make it clearer. But this figure of speech can take us even further. It certainly makes us understand what the trainer already ...

For example, a child may recognize a communication symbol in a picture of a rotary telephone without ever having seen the object! Living metaphors: avoid catalog metaphors For a metaphor to work, it ...

We are bombarded with visual metaphors on television every day. Clients use metaphors to understand their dilemmas and plan strategies for change.

My younger daughter for example thinks any couple over the age of 45 holding hands is “cute” because “it shows even old people can be happy”. She’s 15 so I think we can let her off.

Figures of speech are used every day in our lives. Here is what a metaphor is and examples of how it is used.

Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to convey meaning. Use these mentor texts to teach writers how to write similes ...

This study investigated developmental changes in children's abilities to comprehend visual metaphors as measured by their use of verbal metaphor. The visual metaphors were compound objects, e. g., a ...

'Felix et Meira': mood, setting and visual metaphorGiroux sets his film between two cultures that – though both are situated in Montreal – couldn’t be much more different. In one, Meira ...

Across the U.S., old, rusty and oft-forgotten vehicles are finding new life as symbolic metaphors for political campaigns across the political spectrum—just in time for the 2018 midterms.