What's the deal with metaphors, conceptual metaphors

Metaphor, also known as allusion, is a veiled simile in which one thing is used as a metaphor for another.

Metaphors appear in both the body and the metaphor, often connected by the metaphorical words "is", "seems", "becomes", etc., sometimes without the use of metaphors.

The typical form is: A is B, and it must be consistent with:

(1) A and B must be essentially different things;

(2) there must be a similarity between A and B.

Expanded Information

Types of Metaphors

1. The body and the metaphor are juxtaposed.

For example, all that comes out of the fountain is water, and all that flows out of the veins is blood.

2. The ontology and the metaphor are in a modifying relationship.

For example: Here is a sea of flowers.

3. The ontology and the metaphor are in an exegetical relationship.

For example: I love Beijing - the heart of the motherland.

4. The ontology and the metaphor are compound relations.

For example: Let us pour out stronger feelings for the land! Because the shackles of Mother Earth are lifted ......

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