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Metaphor



Metaphor - [Gr.,=transfer], in rhetoric, a figure of speech in which one class of things is referred to as if it belonged to another class. Whereas a simile states that A is like B, a metaphor states that A is B or substitutes B for A. Some metaphors are explicit, like Shakespeare's line from As You Like It: "All the world's a stage." A metaphor can also be




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    Cold War Rhetoric: Strategy, Metaphor, and Ideology
    by Martin J. Medhurst, Robert L. Ivie, Philip Wander, Robert L. Scott. 238 pgs.



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