Collocations with metaphor

These are words often used in combination with metaphor.

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central metaphor
The vast body of evidence presented and referred to in the target article demonstrates the heuristic value of the central metaphor.
conceptual metaphor
Indeed, elaborations at this more specific level may, perhaps more plausibly, give rise to the more general abstractions in evidence in conceptual metaphor theory.
extended metaphor
It is difficult to do justice to a work of scholarship that is written in the form of an extended metaphor.
spatial metaphor
This pervasive spatial metaphor encapsulates local notions of identity and authenticity.
visual metaphor
With linked arms, they gather themselves inward as a group, a visual metaphor for the acoustic unity for which the ensemble was famous.
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