The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an eye for resemblance. —Aristotle, De Poetica, 322 B.C.
"Steemit platform is my home," is a metaphor.
Steemit is not a home but we can understand the sentence without a problem. In creating a metaphor, we create a connection between two things. Between Steemit and home, in this instance.
We are required to possess an understanding of two different things in order to generate one metaphor: metaphors are useful particularly for writers; they make writing easy to understand.
We human beings perceive the world around us and understand it by analogies and metaphors. Cognitive scientist George Lakoff argues that thoughts, including metaphors, are physical in the brain. Arguing about brain categories for metaphors.
The world is all about a box containing another box inside it. The human body itself is a type of box that lives inside another box, the house.
The house is in a particular neighborhood, and again the neighborhood is located in another bigger place, say, a state or country. Recall the phrase, drawing a box around somebody.
The world is all about boxes and categories and metaphors. And a good metaphor, as Aristotle said, implies an eye for resemblance.
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