Metaphor (استعاره) مطابق آن چه در فرهنگ لغت زبان انگلیسی آمده است به شرح زیر تعریف می گردد:
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.
استعاره (تشبیه) صورتی از کلام است که در آن موضوعی نا مرتبط به موضوعی دیگر تشبیه می شود تا از این طریق ویژه گی مورد نظر آن موضوع اثبات شود.
Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association, comparison or resemblance including allegory and simile.
In simpler terms, a metaphor compares two objects or things without using the words "like","as".
One of the most prominent examples of a metaphor in English literature is the All the world's a stage monologue from As You Like It:
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances; — William Shakespeare
Structure
A metaphor has two parts: the tenor and the vehicle. The tenor is the subject to which attributes are ascribed. The vehicle is the object whose attributes are borrowed. In the previous example, "the world" is compared to a stage, describing it with the attributes of "the stage"; "the world" is the tenor, and "a stage" is the vehicle; "men and women" is a secondary tenor, "players" is the secondary vehicle.
اگر قبلا در بیان ثبت نام کرده اید لطفا ابتدا وارد شوید، در غیر این صورت می توانید ثبت نام کنید.