- Silence is people's loudest cry
- Stars are humans who need darkness to shine
3. A dead metaphor is: A figure of speech that has lost its force of imaginative effectiveness. Through frequent use. It is not a creative metaphor anymore.
"An example of a dead metaphor would be the 'body of an essay' In this example, 'body' was initially an expression that drew on the metaphorical image of human anatomy applied to the subject matter in question. As a dead metaphor, 'body of an essay' literally means the main part of an essay, and no longer suggests anything new that might be suggested by an anatomical referent. In that sense, 'body of an essay' is no longer a metaphor, but merely a literal statement of fact, or a 'dead metaphor.'"
(Michael P. Marks, The Prison as Metaphor. Peter Lang, 2004)
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