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  2. Visual metaphor - Wikipedia

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    The photo appears to be of a broken question mark birthday candle faced the other direction on a dark surface. This could be a visual metaphor for questioning life. A visual metaphor is a metaphor the medium of which is visual. Like in any other metaphor, one part of it, usually named "source", applies to another part, usually named "target ...

  3. Image analogy - Wikipedia

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    The image analogy method has been used to simulate many types of image filters: Toy filters, such as blurring or "embossing." Texture synthesis from an example texture. Super-resolution, inferring a high-resolution image from a low-resolution source. Texture transfer, in which images are "texturized" with some arbitrary source texture.

  4. Ambiguous image - Wikipedia

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    The rule of similarity states that images that are similar to each other can be grouped together as being the same type of object or part of the same object. Therefore, the more similar two images or objects are, the more likely it will be that they can be grouped together. For example, two squares among many circles will be grouped together.

  5. Metaphor - Wikipedia

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    For example, we have coherently organized knowledge about journeys that we rely on in understanding life. [ 37 ] Lakoff and Johnson greatly contributed to establishing the importance of conceptual metaphor as a framework for thinking in language, leading scholars to investigate the original ways in which writers used novel metaphors and to ...

  6. Analogy - Wikipedia

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    Analogy is a comparison or correspondence between two things (or two groups of things) because of a third element that they are considered to share. [1]In logic, it is an inference or an argument from one particular to another particular, as opposed to deduction, induction, and abduction.

  7. Crab mentality - Wikipedia

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    Relative deprivation theory proposes that feelings of dissatisfaction and injustice arise when people compare their situation unfavorably with others' situations. [16] This sense of inequality, rooted in subjective perceptions rather than objective measures, can deeply influence social behavior, [17] including the phenomenon of crab mentality.

  8. Figurative analogy - Wikipedia

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    The two things compared in a figurative analogy are not obviously comparable in most respects. [2] Metaphors and similes are two types of figurative analogies. In the course of analogical reasoning, figurative analogies become weak if the disanalogies of the entities being compared are relevant—in the same way that literal analogies become ...

  9. Metonymy - Wikipedia

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    For example, Miró's 1925 painting "Photo: This is the Color of My Dreams" has the word "photo" to represent the image of his dreams. This painting comes from a series of paintings called peintures-poésies (paintings-poems) which reflect Miró's interest in dreams and the subconscious [38] and the relationship of words, images, and thoughts.