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Dying Metaphors

What is a Dying metaphor?

Why do people use dying metaphors?

A dead metaphor is a figure of speech which has lost its original imagery of its meaning due to extension, repetitive, and popular usage. Because dead metaphors have conventional meanings that differ from the original, they can be understood without knowing their earlier connotation.

  • lighten up the mood of the piece of work.
  • Connect with readers emotion
  • emphasize a point

One which has become so overused, it is considered unfashionable or lacking in eloquence to use in effect.

For example..

'body of an essay.”

That would be because the 'body’ was initially an expression that drew on the metaphorical image of human anatomy. As a dead metaphor, 'body of an essay' literally means the main part of an essay, and no longer suggests anything new. 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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