Assertion: metaphor | /r/HasProperty | useful
Facets:
value: in helping the reader
type: PURPOSE
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Metaphors are also useful for explaining a new or complex idea by relating it to something familiar.
text: Perhaps most interestingly, while Pinker concedes that metaphor is a useful way to combat the limited ability of language to express thought, he postulates that a higher level of abstract thought must still be present.
text: However, there are some metaphors that are used that aren’t as well known, or you might have heard a metaphor used in a way that didn’t seem to make sense to you.
text: So, in conveying ideas we resort to metaphors which are very useful linguistic tools.
text: Nevertheless, metaphors can be useful in helping the reader to grasp abstract of abstruse concepts by explaining them through reference to something more concrete or easier to understand.
text: The metaphor is useful because it is easy to grasp, does not value one orientation over another, outlines key differences in culture that affect business, and eases anxieties by giving people the satisfaction of knowing how they measure up, where cultures are situated.
text: In other words, instead of "supporting" the client by offering them ready-made metaphors, when the counselor senses that a metaphor would be useful or that a metaphor is conspicuously absent, the counselor asks the client,