However, it can be easily adapted to any discipline. We use metaphors all the time to help define our natural and scientific world and explain our behavior and attitudes. You are just as likely these days to run across them in a scientific review as in a sonnet. Despite the 300-year effort by Hobbes, Locke and a legion of logical positivists to confine them to the English classroom, metaphors are suddenly inescapable in technical prose. Begin your exploration of metaphors with some from your personal experience.
Many people think that metaphors are only used in poetry and literature.
We use them so much that we are not even aware we are doing so. Give examples of them and elaborate on their meaning. Then transition to how metaphors are used in your major. Identify some metaphors in your major and discuss a few in detail. Elaborate on the concept and how the definition helps to explain the concept.