 A Metaphor is represented by the insertion of a concept (often a single word) belonging to a specific semantic context, without any additional comment, into a sentence that presents concepts belonging to a different context  A Simile is an explicit comparison between a concept, or more often a process, an activity, belonging to a context and a correspondent concept/process coming from a diff...

Comparisons are phrases that express the likeness of two entities. They are usually marked by linguistic patterns, among which the most discussed are X is like Y and as X as Y. We propose a simple slot-based dependency-driven description of such patterns that refines the phrase structure approach of Niculae and Yaneva (2013). We introduce a simple similaritybased approach that proves useful for...

The paradigm of Aristotelian science continues to cause tension between scientific and literary language. Aristotle’s scientific legacy, the dominance of a strictly logical method, disbars and degrades any methodology which it deems not as rigorous. Accordingly, the scientific tradition enthrones the use of unambiguous language because it assumes that Aristotle’s systematic methodology rejects ...

A simile is an expression that indicates one has something in common with others character, either overtly or covertly, by comparing it the furniture. In Quran juz 27 there are various types of similes. Al-Qur'an Juz 27, 4 cases: what sentences have elements components and two ends similes 27. The objectives need to achieve this research find containing simile/tasbeeh know understand two-ended ...

In this paper we investigate the role of rhythmic similarity as part of melodic similarity in the context of Folksong research. We define a rhythmic similarity measure based on Inner Metric Analysis and apply it to groups of similar melodies. The comparison with a similarity measure of the SIMILE software shows that the two models agree on the number of melodies that are considered very similar...

Advertisement is the major way of promoting sales. To achieve this aim, the AD language gets used to reinforce the effect with the help of rhetoric devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, pun, rhyme, etc. In term of the difference between English and Chinese, some translation methods including Literal Translantion, Free Translation and Modulation could be skillfully used during the t...

Robischon M. Hugh’s book and Krogh’s animals: biodiversity and textbook examples in teaching. Adv Physiol Educ 38: 195–198, 2014; doi:10.1152/advan.00042.2014.—The medieval simile of the world as a book seems to anticipate modern notions of biodiversity as a key to insights and learning. This thought is translated into the practice of research in the August Krogh principle, which provides argum...

mental verbs are wanted to be uttered by concretizesing them in order to add power and beauty to the expression. These mental verbs are mostly expressed through metaphors. In Turkmen Turkish, abstract mental verbs have gained a metaphoric phraseology by simile and concretization. While concretizising and similing, elements from Turkish culture were used. Cultural differences between societies h...