In A thousand and one proposals for pedagogy, A. de Peretti and François Muller set out a series of examples of visual or narrative metaphors, which can also help to invent or remember. Cinema, ...

Richard Nordquist in an online article updated November, 2016 pointed out that, "Modern advertising relies heavily on visual metaphors." Nordquist gives an example of a man driving a Land Rover ...

Metaphor - the use of one image to evoke another - is one of the distinctive traits of mankind through the ages. In this important paper it is suggested that the apparently 'soft' quality of much of ...

Ronaldo knocking a phone from a child’s hand at Goodison Park provided a visual metaphor for both his and Manchester United’s seasons. Sometimes, the visual metaphor is just too obvious to ...

What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a figure of speech used to make a comparison or analogy through phrases and words. For example, a metaphor can compare one thing – such as an action or object – to ...

Ad Nut's got a soft spot for old-school, tried-and-true ad techniques, like the simple visual metaphor used here. Throat feels like a cactus? Take Difflam. The end. So clear. So quick. So hopefully ...

When a stray bull paced the tracks at Newark Penn Station on Thursday, bringing train traffic to a halt, it unwittingly provided a visual metaphor for the perilous state of NJ Transit finances ...

Across the U.S., old, rusty and oft-forgotten vehicles are finding new life as symbolic metaphors for political campaigns across the political spectrum—just in time for the 2018 midterms.