metaphor lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
• The application of a concept to that which it is not literally the same but which suggests a resemblance and comparison. Medical metaphors were widespread in ancient literature; the description of a sick body was often used by ancient writers to define a critical condition of the State, in which one corrupt part can ruin the entire system. (From Med Secoli Arte Sci, 1990;2(3):abstract 331)