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Making Metaphors, Part II: Exercises. By. Pat Pattison. Updated: August 2, 2021 10:10 am. Like a lot of great poets, William Butler Yeats paid attention to verbs.
Verbal Metaphor — formed by conflict between the verb and its subject and/or object, e.g., ... In the next issue we’ll look at a series of exercises guaranteed to tone your metaphorical muscles.
Another, "riskier" possibility, Shapiro said, is to do this exercise together with this person, to see if our metaphors for our relationship are similar or different. That knowledge in and of ...