Having started down the metaphorical slope, it will continue to slide in the same direction ( the arguer usually sees the direction as a negative direction, hence the " sliding downwards " metaphor ).

Having examined the soundscape, Arnold turns to the action of the tide itself and sees in its retreat a metaphor for the loss of faith in the modern age, once again expressed in an auditory image (" But now I only hear / Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar ").

Having invoked Thomas Jefferson's metaphor of the wall of separation in the Everson decision, the lawmakers and courts have struggled how to balance governments ' dual duty to satisfy both the nonestablishment clause and the free exercise clause contained in the language of the amendment.

" Seashells ", or conchae in Latin, may be a metaphor for something else such as female genitalia ( perhaps the troops visited brothels ) or boats ( perhaps they captured several small British boats ).

This work's title, translatable as " tutor ", refers to Christ as the teacher of all mankind, and it features an extended metaphor of Christians as children.

With Rhett's " swarthy face " juxtaposed against Scarlett's " magnolia-white skin ", the two white protagonists are a metaphor for an interracial couple, and their romance represents racial conflict.

But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.

Later interpretations rejected opposition between myth and science, such as Jungian archetypes, Joseph Campbell's " metaphor of spiritual potentiality ", or Lévi-Strauss's fixed mental architecture.

For example, in the first sentence of this paragraph, the word " viewed " serves as a metaphor for " thought of ", implying analogy of the process of seeing and the thought process.

The phrase, " viewed as an aspect of ", projects the properties of seeing ( vision ) something from a particular perspective onto thinking about something from a particular perspective, that " something " in this case referring to " metaphor " and that " perspective " in this case referring to the characteristics of speech and writing.

In enumerating his claims about the trajectory of children's language development, Halliday eschews the metaphor of " acquisition ", in which language is considered a static product which the child takes on when sufficient exposure to natural language enables " parameter setting ".

It is different from a metaphor, which compares two unlike things by saying that the one thing is the other thing, unlike the simile that uses word like or as ( also " if " and " than ", although these are not common ).

Skilful tracking and acquisition of an elusive target has caused the word hunting to be used in the vernacular as a metaphor, as in treasure hunting, " bargain hunting ", and even " hunting down corruption and waste ".

These specifications are referred to as " contracts ", in accordance with a conceptual metaphor with the conditions and obligations of business contracts.

The lyrics, which speak of " castles burning ", can be seen as a metaphor for Lester's view of Angela —" the rosy, fantasy-driven exterior of the ' American Beauty — as it burns away to reveal " the timid, small-breasted girl who, like his wife, has willfully developed a false public self ".

In chronological order others include: " I've Been Everywhere " by Hank Snow ( 1962 ) ( album of the same title ) and Johnny Cash ( 1996 ) Unchained reworked from the original 1959 Geoff Mack Australian-place-names version made popular by the singer Lucky Starr ; " Down on the Corner " ( 1969 ) by Creedence Clearwater Revival on their fourth studio album, Willy and the Poor Boys covered by a dozen other groups ; " Kalamazoo " ( 1995 ) by Luna on Penthouse ; " Cold Rock a Party " ( 1997 ) by MC Lyte on Bad As I Wanna B ; " Kalamazoo " a song by the rock trio Primus on the 1997 Brown Album ; " Top of the World " by Rascalz ( 1999 ) on Global Warning ; " Kalamazoo ", a song by Ben Folds Five on the 2004 EP Super D ; " 65 Miles from Kalamazoo " ( 2008 ) by R. J. Miller ( a lament for a lost Gibson guitar and a metaphor about " an old girlfriend from Kalamazoo "); and " Kalamazoo " ( 2009 ) by Mike Craver on his album Shining Down.

The word " clam " has given rise to the metaphor " clam up ", meaning to refuse to talk or answer, based on the clam behavior of quickly closing its shell when threatened.

In The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception ( 1963 ), Foucault extended his critique to institutional clinical medicine, arguing for the central conceptual metaphor of " The Gaze ", which had implications for medical education, prison design, and the carceral state as understood today.

According to them, trobar means " inventing a trope ", the trope being a poem where the words are used with a meaning different from their common signification, i. e. metaphor and metonymy.

" A public awareness initiative for freethought and atheism, entitled the " Out Campaign ", makes ample use of the " out " metaphor.

One example of a simple sentence that displays synecdoche, metaphor, and metonymy is: " Fifty keels ploughed the deep ", where " keels " is the synecdoche, as it names the whole ( the ship ) after a particular part ( of the ship ); " ploughed " is the metaphor, as it substitutes the concept of ploughing a field for moving through the ocean ; and " the deep " is the metonym, as " depth " is an attribute associated with the ocean.

In Italy, the character is so familiar in popular culture that his name has been occasionnally used as a metaphor for " unlikeable and / or dishonest wealthy person ", " go-getter ", or " rival millionaire " ( i. e., a millionaire who is the rival of another millionaire, in this instance, Bill Koch, rival of Raul " Uncle Scrooge " Gardini ).

Over time, the descendants of the surviving loyal crew have forgotten the purpose and nature of their ship and lapsed into a pre-technological culture marked by superstition, wherein the word " Ship " is become a synonym of " cosmos ", so that " To move the ship " is considered an oxymoron, and references to the Ship's " voyage " are interpreted as metaphor.

Author Naomi Klein wrote in her book The Shock Doctrine about a recurrent metaphor of shock, and claimed in an interview that the Bush administration has continued to exploit a " window of opportunity that opens up in a state of shock ", followed by a comforting rationale for the public, as a form of social control.

Plato, in The Republic ( 507b-509c VI ), uses the sun as a metaphor for the source of " illumination ", arguably intellectual illumination, which he held to be The Form of the Good, which is sometimes interpreted as Plato's notion of God.

His two recurring catchphrases are " I am the terror that flaps in the night ", followed by an improvised metaphor before he gives his name, and the battlecry of " let's get dangerous ".

This term has been borrowed from the Greek kinaidos ( which may itself have come from a language of Ionian Greece of Asia Minor, primarily signifying a purely effeminate dancer who entertained his audiences with a tympanum or tambourine in his hand, and adopted a lascivious style, often suggestively wiggling his buttocks in such a way as to suggest anal intercourse .... The primary meaning of cinaedus never died out ; the term never became a dead metaphor.

As an artistic symbol, it is a metaphor of the life-cycle, from birth to death.

Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the poem Adonais for John Keats, and uses the myth as an extended metaphor for Keats ' death.

The use of a comparable metaphor in the Gilgamesh epic suggests that the reference to " dragonflies the river " is simply an evocative image of death rather than a literal description of the flood Moreover, the very preceding line in Atrahasis mentions " the sea ".

Churches and denominations may vary in which metaphor or explanation they consider most accurately fits into their theological perspective ; however all Christians emphasize that Jesus is the Saviour of the world and through his death the sins of mankind have been forgiven.

" Christus victor " and " ransom " are slightly different from each other: in the ransom metaphor Jesus liberates mankind from slavery to Satan and thus death by giving his own life as a ransom.

Slumber as metaphor for sleeping death as though by sin

Isaiah uses libation as a metaphor when describing the end of the Suffering Servant figure who: " poured out his life unto death ".

" Chicago began working in ice sculpture, which represented " a metaphor for the preciousness of life ," another reference towards her husbands death.

The title refers to both the name of the main character, who is commonly shown as " crossing " others — especially authority figures — to learn what she wants to know, and the biblical metaphor of the ancient Hebrews crossing the Jordan River, commonly used in spiritual songs to represent death and passage to the afterlife.

In this metaphor, death harvests the living, like a farmer harvests the crops.

As a result, Oz the Gweat and Tewwible becomes a metaphor for death, and is used for the rest of the book.

According to classical interpretations, his myth, where Apollo is a Dorian god, is a classical metaphor of the death and rebirth of nature, much as in the myth of Adonis.

The Saturn 5 Trilogy uses the loss and subsequent rescue of the crew as a metaphor for several Christian themes including death, resurrection, redemption, and self-sacrifice.

1997's Happy Town featured Sobule's most elaborate pop productions to date and contains songs about an eclectic range of topics including reactionary Christianity (" Soldiers of Christ "), the negative impact of anti-depressant medication on the libido (" Happy Town ") and what is either the only track ever recorded that uses Anne Frank's enforced Nazi-era hibernation as the metaphor for a love song or the only song about Anne Frank that couches her life and death in the terms of a tussle over loyalty between two lovers (" Attic ").

In Filipino, the corresponding word mitsa has come to be used in a phrase “ mitsa ng buhay ” which translates to " detonating cord of life ", a metaphor for something that is very likely to cause one ’ s death via direct jeopardization ( e. g. extreme sports, versus smoking ).

His poetry is vitalistic and expressionistic, and ( fear of ) death, as a metaphor for defeat in life, is a recurring theme.

Obviously, sleep is also a metaphor for death, both as an eventual equalizer of all things, and for the allusion to a " crossing over ," as in a river, a prevalent theme in Western spiritual beliefs.

Using a storm as a metaphor for the death of a president is similar to Shakespeare's use of a storm in King Lear.

In keeping with this metaphor, the death of a character results in a ' torn ' card, and the magical properties of some cards are used to explain abilities of the game's characters.

Don's journey can be seen as a metaphor for his life, played out in stages from youth to death.

" According to the band, a tourniquet is a metaphor for " a lifelong spiritual process by which a personal God, through the atoning blood, death, and resurrection of His only Son — Jesus Christ — can begin to stop the flow of going through life without knowing and serving our Creator.

In the right-hand panel, Saint Joseph, who was a carpenter, has constructed a mouse trap symbolizing Christ's trapping and defeat of the devil, a metaphor used three times by Saint Augustine: " The cross of the Lord was the devil's mousetrap ; the bait by which he was caught was the Lord's death " In the moment depicted, Joseph is making wine-making equipment used at that time, which symbolizes Eucharistic wine and Christ's passion.

After Roland Barthes announced the " death of the author ", Sukenick carried the metaphor even further in " the death of the novel ".