Examples Of Metaphor In Counselling

When people talk to each other, they make widespread use of metaphor. In talk, metaphor is a shifting, dynamic phenomenon that spreads, connects, and disconnects with other thoughts and other speakers, starts and restarts, flows through talk developing, extending, and changing. Metaphor in talk both shapes the ongoing talk and is shaped by it. The creativity of metaphor in talk appears less in the novelty of connected domains and more in the use of metaphor to shape a discourse event and the adaptation of metaphor in the flow of talk. People use metaphor to think with, to explain themselves to others, to organize their talk, and their choice of metaphor often reveals- not only their conceptualizations- but also, and perhaps

Metaphor and imagery have a long history in psychotherapy, metaphor building up the relationship between the client and the psychotherapist (building trust, empathy and understanding). Metaphor is very powerful and can raise self- awareness and help clients to see more or less the full picture of the client inner world. Metaphor and imagery as used in the therapeutic relationship to building up the link between the inner world and external world is abstract but very powerful and can help the client to link between the here and now and the past (the echo of a significant event or situation in which the client feels stuck, in an impasse or in a dilemma not solved). Metaphor and imagery help the client to move in a positive way

Figurative Language helps an author give vivid imagery. In the story, “Mississippi Solo” by Eddy Harris, the author, using figurative language, gives vivid imagery of his extraordinary experience of canoeing down the Mississippi River.

The usage of a metaphor challenges society's common

The author uses excellent imagery throughout the story allowing the reader to comprehend and paint a picture in their head more clearly. But another essential figurative device she uses is a metaphor. The author states that she

Even though Haas and Flower do not mention George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, or even metaphors, in their article, I will be using metaphors to get a better understanding of what these reading strategies are like. Lakoff and Johnson’s analytical tools and ideas about metaphors (, seen in Metaphors We Live By, help me, and others,

Lakoff and Johnson state, “[w]e have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action” (3). They are saying that metaphors are used all the time and not just when people talk, but when they think and in what they do. This is exactly true because after learning about metaphors, and getting a better understanding of them, I have realized how much I, and others, apply them to everyday life without even realizing it, or trying to. Using a metaphor to describe Haas and Flower’s reading concepts will therefore make for a better grasp of what the concepts mean.

When I look up the meaning of metaphors in Webster it says "a figure of speech in which a work for one idea or thing is used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them." The Hours by Michael Cunningham is enriched with many complex metaphors. While intertwining three different woman's lives, Cunningham uses a wide range of metaphors to help mean something in one story and tie into the next woman's story. Using deconstructive interpretation to investigate these strategically placed metaphors can be difficult and exciting, yet challenging.

A metaphor, used as a communication skill, is best described in a political way. Think of Reagan’s Voodoo economics, or Bill Clinton building a bridge to the 21st century. Politicians can easily scam an ignorant voter, should one not understand a metaphor. For example: Clinton refers to building a bridge, but does not tell us with which tools he

In The Language of Science by Carol Reeves, she discusses metaphors in science in unit two and how they are an important part of everyday life. We constantly use metaphors in our daily lives and we have become so accustomed to them that we fail to realize how heavily we rely on them. We use metaphors consciously and unconsciously every day to describe things. They help us express feelings we cannot describe so we relate them to another experience. However, metaphors are imperfect. They fail to completely describe the events and never tell the whole truth. Sometimes metaphors make dreary situations seem brighter, or they make us feel comfortable with what is going on in the world.

Lakoff and Johnson bring up a great point because metaphor shapes and expand our concepts. A field in which metaphor has become prevalent and useful is

Metaphors allow the reader to paint a picture of written words referencing images that they are familiar with. Like any other animal, there is a hierarchy of strength and therefore

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a comparison is done by using words that would normally describe one thing, and apply to describe another. One can normally find metaphors in songs and poems as well as other instances where artistic writing might be suggested. In Silvia Path's short poem Metaphors she uses metaphorical language to describe what it feels like to be pregnant. Path describes herself as one big riddle, she proceeds to describe how she feels about her pregnancy with the use of numerous metaphors, she successfully paints a very distinct picture in the readers imagination on what she might of looked like while being pregnant. "One view is that metaphors make comparisons, the basis for the comparison being the features (or

Metaphors are used in writing to give the reader a picture in his mind of what is being discussed. “That’s all she was. A vagina,” (Cooper 23) J. California Cooper said. She used metaphor in that sentence above, to show us how down her friend Lorene went. What she wanted say by substituting her friend of a vagina is, that her friend became for her environment nothing more than an object. An object that was only needed to be used.

A metaphor is an implicit comparison between two objects or concepts. This device adds to the persuasive power of the speech because it bridges familiar concepts that are simple to understand with those that may be more difficult to grasp. For example, in line 102, the governor states that the “agenda … is not one forged in isolation.” This statement compares the agenda to the success of Canada, which is the result of Canadians working together as one cohesive unit. This metaphor is very powerful, evoking an emotional response from the audience members because it intertwines with their ideas of how Canada should be run. The governor uses this metaphor to draw on the parliament members’ ingrained beliefs to persuade them to follow this agenda. If they do so, the governor seems to say, Canada will be even