Status:: #🌱 Tags:: Links:: <% tp.file.cursor(4) %> ___ # Types of metaphor - Orientational Metaphors: Organize systems of concepts with respect to another spatially. Up-down, in-out, front-back, on-off, deep-shallow, central-peripheral. For example, happiness is up, the future is near, that lecture wasn't that deep. - Ontological Metaphors: Put boundaries that make physical phenomena discrete so we can understand and communicate them. For example, mountain, container, street corners. - Personification: Physical or abstract object is given living characteristics. For example, life is cheating me, the tree was hungry, the rock is mean. - Metonymy: Representing one entity with another. Religions and cultures do this all the time with symbols that represent something else. For example the cross in Christianity, the eightfold wheel in Buddhism, or the American Flag in America. The significance of these symbols shouldn't be undermined. They have the power to change us, allowing us to see more deeply into the symbol, changing us more... This is why [[Symbols have the ability to change worldview.]].