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Metaphor
* affect the way people think and express their culture.
* appear in virtually all branches of discourse.
* are 'vertical' in nature.
* are a powerful way of thinking about complex ideas
  - special form of presentation natural to many cultures
  - way to describe something
  - always capable of being drawn, i.e. they are objects
  - attempts to identify an experience
  - bridges that order the nature of our collective and individual humanity
  - figures of speech often used to describe the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar
  - fixers of ideas
  - in fact a main concept of myths
  - often rich in symbols, complex and full of meaning
  - only one of the many literary devices used in scripture
  - personal constructs
  - symbolic words
  - symbols and as such carry mythic power
* are the lifeblood of language
  - manner in which unconscious fantasy is revealed on the stage of social reality
  - most striking evidence that humans think abstractly
  - organizing tool for cultural communication and political discourse
  - useful since they connect complex concepts to understandable objects and events
  - ways of expressing the unfamiliar in familiar terms
  - word pictures
* belong to the larger class of symbols.
* can become catalysts of self-organization
  - fuse form and function
  - play different roles in different contexts and at different times
* connect two different ideas, persons, places, or things.
* constitutes a ubiquitous, irreducibly complex aspect of any natural language.
* describe a feeling, a situation or a behavioral pattern in a person.
* express truth, but they work by suggestion, by connecting one thing with another.
* gives meaning to form.
* have a profound effect on computing
  - the potential to bridge the gap between abstract and concreate information
* invite people to think to fresh ways and to create new paradigms.
  - tropes
* lie at the essence of ideology and are the source of their structure and meaning.
* lines the road to freedom, as symbols and words are the bricks and mortar of meaning.
* make concepts easier to understand.
* serve as a lens to highlight certain features or make a particular point.
* use words to invoke imagery so complete as to be holographic in nature.
* works on many levels in poetry.
+ Figure of speech: Language :: Writing
  * Metaphors are very common examples. This does not mean that a person threw a protective wrist-covering down on the ground.
+ Simile: Words :: Figures of speech
  * A 'simile' is a figure of speech which derives from classical rhetoric. It is used to make a 'direct comparison'. Similes may be confused with metaphors, which do the same kind of thing. Similes use comparisons, with the words 'like' or 'as'. Metaphors use indirect comparisons, without the words 'like' or 'as'.

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Spatial metaphor
* affect comprehension of nonspatial texts.
* run through the language of networks.

Negative image
* are still images.
* have a way of coming alive just as positive images have.

Oxymoron
* are phrases that, though used often, contradict themselves
  - two things which are incompatible and placed together to form a description.
  * sometimes appear in jokes. Sometimes, the joke is just to say that a pair of words are an oxymoron. This means that politicians are dishonest, if the word 'politician' is opposite to 'honest'
* is an image

Radar image
* are extremely sensitive to differences in water retention of soils
  - typically byte images of some sort
  - useful for locating precipitation
  - valuable weather forecasting tools used to detect severe weather
* help find lost rivers and cities.
* show boundaries
  - circular boundaries
  - features
* show that migrating insects are often aligned in a common direction
  - the asteroid has two components separated by as much as one kilometer