This document discusses the meaning and types of metaphor. Metaphor is a figure of speech that directly equates two different concepts or ideas to provide clarity or identify hidden similarities. There are several types of metaphor including simple, complex, dead, dying, mixed, and compound metaphors. The document also mentions the diachronic and synchronic development of language over time and through history versus just in the present moment without historical context. Examples of metaphors are provided from Krishna, lovers in India, betrayal, and Shakespeare.

2. The Meaning of Metaphor
 It is a figure of speech that refers to something as
being the same as another thing.
 It may provide clarity or identify hidden similarities
between two ideas.
 Metaphor directly equates two different words.
 Metaphor can provide the poetic imagination.

3.  Types of Metaphor...
Simple
metaphor
Complex
metaphor
Dead
metaphor
Dying
metaphor
Mixed
metaphor
Compound
metaphor

4. Diachronic
Development
and evolution
of a language
through history
Synchronic
Language
without taking
its history into
account

6. Krishna as Metaphor

10. Lovers

11. Indians

12. Betrayal

13. Absence of Lover..

14. “All the world’s a stage, and all
the men and women merely
players.
They have their exits and their
entrances”
As You Like It
(William Shakespeare)
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