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Oct 27, 2013 · We argue that in particular cases—for instance in political discourse—extended metaphors are ideally suited to contribute material that can be used for argumentative purposes, this being made possible by the subordination of metaphorical occurrences, throughout the text, to a core metaphor (see Sect. 2.3.2 below for a development of this idea). We suggest that extended metaphors can be ...
- Steve Oswald, Alain Rihs
- 2014
Oct 30, 2024 · An extended metaphor is a literary device that serves the same purpose as a metaphor—to create a comparison—but uses several sentences, paragraphs, or even longer to do so. A regular metaphor creates a simple, concise comparison in one line or sentence, while an extended metaphor does the same thing but uses more language to elaborate on the comparison with more complex ideas.
May 1, 2013 · The main idea behind o ur argumentative account of extended metaphors is that they are ideally suited, both d iscursively and cognit ively, to pro vide an arg umentative structure whe re the init ial
Conceit can refer to a particularly fanciful or even strained extended metaphor: However, for some people (and literary critics in particular) the word conceit carries the connotation of a fanciful or elaborate extended metaphor in which an unlikely, far-fetched, or strained comparison is made between two things. The term is most often used to refer to such metaphors in Renaissance literature ...
Dec 20, 2021 · It is found that extended metaphors, expressed through similes or direct metaphors at strategic stages in L2 argumentative essays, are often the result of learners’ conscious manipulation of L1 in producing L2 for various communicative purposes, such as the desire for vividness, coherence, comprehensibility, when there is a knowledge gap between L1 and L2, and for evaluative and persuasive ...
- Qiuyun Lu
- Front Psychol. 2021; 12: 803359.
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.803359
- 2021
extended metaphors may re-instantiate the initial frame and, in turn, further highlight the ways in which the congruent response maps on to the entailments of this frame. For instance, describing
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Dec 26, 2023 · Not all extended metaphors are allegories, but allegories rely on extended metaphors. Conceit: A conceit is an intricate extended metaphor that presents its subject in an unexpected way. The goal of a conceit is to challenge the reader to view the subject through a new or unique lens.
