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THE COMMONEST TYPES OF METAPHOR IN ENGLISH | ||
| Journal Of Al-Frahids Arts | ||
| Article 1, Volume 3, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 52-69 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ahmed Hasani Yaseen | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Definitions of metaphor in the terminology in the English language are many, complex, vary from a school of language to another, and from a language to another. For example, in the Longman New Universal Dictionary (1982) "Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is applied to another to suggest a likeliness or analogy between them ". A definition of metaphor in the dictionary of the Random House Unabridged (1993) has been received almost the same meaning, where "metaphor is a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance''. It is well known that the previous definitions show us clearly the idea of putting the word into another without the meaning of this word to have the literal meaning, but their purpose is to highlight the resemblance and likeliness between them. In BBC English Dictionary (1992), a definition of metaphor may be inclusive of these two ideas: "Metaphor is a way of describing something by saying that it is something else which has the qualities that you are trying to describe''. Alvarez (1993: 481) mentions in her study of the metaphor that the linguist Brooke-Rose (1965) developed a definition of metaphor which she said :''Any identification of one thing with another, any replacement of the more usual word or phrase by another''. All of these definitions state that it is clear to us the full breadth of metaphor in English. It is the likeliness and resemblance between two things; and it is a description of the benefits of something else; and is a departure from the regular use of language, and it is sometimes a single word or a group of words; and other times a phrase or even a full-text. | ||
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| THE COMMONEST; TYPES OF METAPHOR IN ENGLISH | ||
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