Examples of metaphor

• The geographical metaphor is particularly useful when discussing the internal structure of a program, and hence it tends to predominate in more technical texts.

• We have applied the same idea to teaching music by arguing for body movement as a physical metaphor between musical activities and conceptual thinking.

• There are phenomena that occur only at certain scales, and which thereby are poor models or metaphors for other levels.

• One method of making this prior knowledge explicit is to examine the metaphors preservice teachers use during their practice teaching.

• This property alone has fundamental consequences for the solutions that we expect from any model that is based on that metaphor.

• Ghosts may seem to elude serious scholars except as metaphor or atmosphere, but there is a surprising abundance of books about them.

• In this magnum opus he used biological metaphors to analyse the functioning of a national economic system and elaborate a detailed typology of socio-economic phenomena.

• With respect to the problem of invisibility, the crystal metaphor offers an elegant solution.