Pierre-Paul Delvaux exhorts that unlike poetic metaphor, which aims to make the familiar unusual, pedagogical metaphor aims to make the unusual familiar. "[...] There is in the use of pedagogical ...

When my client said, "I'm at the end of my rope," he was metaphorically talking about his frustrations. In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else ...

Graphic facilitation is a set of techniques designed to share and bring out ideas and cohesion, using a mix of visuals, keywords and expressions. Images play an important role. And these images are ...

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 45, No. 1, Understanding Visual Metaphor: Developmental and Individual Differences (1980), pp. 1-78 (89 pages) The development of an ...

Recent philosophical analyses of the epistemic dimension of images in the sciences show a certain trend in acknowledging potential roles of these images beyond their merely decorative or pedagogical ...

“You can say that I’m a lover of stairs.” Director Bong Joon-ho on the underlying metaphor of his new film, Parasite. Bong Joon-ho is obsessed with stairs. “You can say that I’m a lover of stairs,” ...

Alex Garland is a director who isn’t afraid of the abstract. Metaphors permeate his films; from the 2014 sci-fi classic “Ex Machina” to the Natalie Portman-led “Annihilation,” Garland is a director ...

Essay on the common mythological origins of Yoruba verbal and visual metaphors which are manifest in the literature of Ifa, in sculpted and other man-made objects, and in ritual. The concept of ori, ...

When my client said, "I'm at the end of my rope," he was metaphorically talking about his frustrations. In simple English, when you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else ...