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Question: Discuss and illustrate the view that metaphors influence thought and action.
Answer: According to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, metaphor is “a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them”. In other words, metaphor is a linguistic tool used in order to describe an object or concept by using an alternative and often very different word. For example, the title of this essay asks that the author, “illustrate the view”, the author is not expected to draw a picture, but instead must expound and explain “the view”....(short extract)
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- Subject: English Language
- Course: English Language
- Level: A-Level
- Year: Not applicable
- Mark: Not available
- Words: 1530
- Date submitted: July 13, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: No
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 1885
