IS Metaphors

Charles DixonGuina NgTae Oh

Kimi Sohrabi

Definition

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/metaphor

Dictionary.com

The common dictionary site provides a definition of metaphor

Dictionary.com

The common dictionary site provides a definition of metaphor

Everyday Metaphors

http://efl.htmlplanet.com/metaphors.htm#five htmlplanet.com This site provides many metaphors and other figures of speech broken up into categories

Everyday Metaphors

http://www.saidwhat.co.uk/spoon/metaphors.php Saidwhat.co.uk This site provides a list of some random metaphors. It contains both common and uncommon

Saidwhat.co.uk This site provides a list of some random metaphors. It contains both common and uncommon

Everyday Metaphors

http://www.metaphorsandsimiles.com/common/metaphors-analogies-similes.aspx

Metaphorsandsimiles.com

A large bank of metaphors and figures of speech sorted by category or alphabet

IS Metaphors

http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/theory/seidel/examples.html Cyberartsweb.org This site has a few computer related metaphors

IS Metaphors

http://knowgramming.com/computer_metaphors.htm Knowgramming.com A few metaphors used in computing that are simple, yet you use them often enough that you might not consider them metahpors

IS Metaphors

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/meta4compute.html Umich.edu An analysis of metaphors used in the computing world. You will have to do a bit of reading to get to the gold, but its there and the article is interesting

Just one more..

http://www.chacocanyon.com/essays/metaphors.shtml

Chacocanyon.com Provides an interesting view of how metaphor can be misused and then finishes with a large list of metaphors, many of them common