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André Kostolany, the 20th Century stock market whiz, had a great metaphor for the markets that dog owners might appreciate.
ALREADY DOWN 13%, BIG TECH STOCKS HAVE PLENTY MORE ROOM TO FALL, ANALYSTS SAYBERNHARD WARNERSEPTEMBER 22, 2020FORTUNEIt was about persevering in the face of hardship, with contrasting harmonies and melodies acting as metaphors for life and death.
BEETHOVEN’S 5TH SYMPHONY IS A LESSON IN FINDING HOPE IN ADVERSITYCHARLIE HARDINGSEPTEMBER 11, 2020VOXIn April 2014, President Xi Jinping used tea and beer as metaphors to underscore friendship with Belgium, during a visit to that country.
THE RISE OF CHINA’S TEA DIPLOMACYPALLABI MUNSISEPTEMBER 9, 2020OZYI just think it happened to come along at exactly the moment that people were interested in that metaphor and exploring it.
WHAT WAS MALCOLM GLADWELL’S TIPPING POINT?PALLABI MUNSIAUGUST 11, 2020OZYBut, Begley says, it may be time to trade in the hard-wired metaphor for a less misleading one.
5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICSYour correspondent Erica gives us some quotations and epitaphs, in which the metaphor of an Inn is applied both to life and death.
NOTES AND QUERIES, NUMBER 177, MARCH 19, 1853VARIOUS"To say that the brute has awakened in a man is not a mere metaphor always," he went on presently.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOODThe musician not showing any visible appreciation of the managers metaphor, Perkins immediately proceeded to uncock his eye.
THE FIFTH STRING JOHN PHILIP SOUSABy a noble metaphor, says Milman, the day of their death was considered that of their birth to immortality.
THE CATACOMBS OF ROMEWILLIAM HENRY WITHROWTo carry out your metaphor of the tree, the graft cut from the parent stock must bear fruit for itself.
ALONEMARION HARLANDWORDS RELATED TO METAPHOR
- allegory
- analogy
- analyzing
- association
- balancing
- bringing together
- collating
- collation
- comparability
- connection
- contrast
- correlation
- discrimination
- distinguishing
- dividing
- estimation
- example
- exemplification
- identification
- illustration
- juxtaposition
- likeness
- likening
- measuring
- metaphor
- observation
- opposition
- paralleling
- ratio
- relating
- relation
- resemblance
- segregation
- separation
- similarity
- testing
- weighing
- allegories
- analogies
- analyzings
- associations
- balancings
- bringing togethers
- collatings
- collations
- comparability
- connections
- contrasts
- correlations
- discriminations
- distinguishings
- dividings
- estimations
- examples
- exemplifications
- identifications
- illustrations
- juxtapositions
- likenesses
- likenings
- measurings
- metaphors
- observations
- oppositions
- parallelings
- ratios
- relatings
- relations
- resemblances
- segregations
- separations
- similarities
- testings
- weighings
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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