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.
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Famous quotes containing the word rhetoric:
“Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don’t want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.”
—Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)