Most speakers and writers use the terms metaphor and simile as if they mean exactly the same thing. But they are not! A simile is a metaphor, but not all metaph

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Postmodern revisions of fairy tales have influenced several discourses and disciplines especially during the second half of the twentieth century. In particular

Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis