plural of extended metaphor

plural of conceptual metaphor

plural of dead metaphor

(rhetoric) A metaphor that is continued over multiple sentences.

(linguistics) A former metaphor which has in effect lost its metaphorical status and become literal. Not to be confused with stale metaphor (a type of cliché), although it often is.

(linguistics) An overreaching, contradictory or incongruous combination of two distinct metaphors, similes or idioms.

(linguistics) The understanding of one idea or conceptual domain in terms of another.