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Metaphor (disambiguation)

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Metaphor can mean:

  • Metaphor in literature and rhetoric, an analogy between two objects or ideas, conveyed by using a word instead of another word
  • Conceptual metaphor, metaphors in cognitive linguistics, understanding one idea or conceptual domain in terms of another
  • Interface metaphor, metaphors in computer science, for example an icon of a filing cabinet for "filestore"
  • "Metaphor", a song by In Flames from their album Reroute to Remain