Allegories, Metaphors, and Similes What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile? In two words, not much.

Aristotle may have found little difference between simile and metaphor, but our brains apparently do not agree ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge identified the difference between metaphor and simile as a difference of degree.

What is the difference between a metaphor and a simile? In two words, not much. Whereas a metaphor says that something is something else, a simile says that it is like or as something else.

In 1987 I described a set of metaphors for language and thought which have shaped semantic histories of speech verbs and epistemic verbs in the Indo-European language family at large, as well as ...

Metaphors and other figurative language are deeply woven into the fabric of human communication, as this very sentence actually demonstrates. But how do our brains translate these metaphors into ...

Geneticists deploy a striking range of metaphors to communicate their science, to promote its value and to suggest its social meaning to the public. So too, critics of science and special interest ...