Today's topic is about how metaphors help us to understand abstract ideas by connecting them to things that are familiar to us. Mr. White's examples are sound or light moving through space to waves of water; or the movement of a flag to the action of a whip. He states that "Metaphors are among a writer's most versatile stylistic devices." He also quotes two other authors stating that "metaphors lie at the heart of our thinking and reveal much about our conceptualizing processes."
The "Try This" section today is to maintain an inventory of the different types of metaphors that you and other family members use. Again this will be something that gets added to that little composition book of mine along with the dreams I am recording when I can in the morning.
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