Metaphor - Use Outside Rhetoric

Use Outside Rhetoric

The term metaphor is also used for the following terms that are not a part of rhetoric:

• A cognitive metaphor is the association of object to an experience outside the object's environment.
• A conceptual metaphor is an underlying association that is systematic in both language and thought.
• A root metaphor is the underlying worldview that shapes an individual's understanding of a situation.
• A nonlinguistic metaphor is an association between two nonlinguistic realms of experience.
• A visual metaphor provides a frame or window on experience.

Metaphors can also be implied and extended throughout pieces of literature.