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Metaphor

Submitted by Teresa Albers on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 2:06pm.

Today's class was a merry-go-round ride, or, was it a ferris wheel, or, was it a roller coaster? It definitely was not a bumper car experience.

THe discussion on metaphors was quite interesting. It's amazing how readily we use metaphors in daily conversation to explain experiences. Metaphors are inaccurate, that is an interesting thought. Then, reflecting upon that thought, it is obvious that they are inaccurate, but they do convey in quite a compact bullet what may take considerably more words to express. They also allow the introduction of emotion and color to communication between people in a that enters the brain through a different threshold than non-methaphor language does.

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