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A list of metaphors in the English language organised alphabetically by type. A metaphor is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea; e.g., "Her eyes were glistening jewels".
Climate apocalypse – Term to describe possible catastrophic events due to climate change; Climate Clock – Public countdown of time until 1.5°C of global warming; DEFCON – Alert posture used by the United States Armed Forces; Doomsday device – Construct which could destroy all life on a planet or a planet itself
"Apocalypse" has come to be used popularly as a synonym for catastrophe, but the Greek word apokálypsis, from which it is derived, means a revelation. [13] It has been defined by John J Collins as "a genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both ...
A political cartoon by illustrator S.D. Ehrhart in an 1894 Puck magazine shows a farm-woman labeled "Democratic Party" sheltering from a tornado of political change.. A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another. [1]
Ancient Apocalypse is a Netflix series, where the British writer Graham Hancock presents his pseudoarchaeological [1] [2] theory that there was an advanced civilization during the last ice age and that it was destroyed as a result of meteor impacts around 12,000 years ago.
Apocalypticism is the religious belief that the end of the world is imminent, even within one's own lifetime. [1] This belief is usually accompanied by the idea that civilization will soon come to a tumultuous end due to some sort of catastrophic global event.
Revelation 22 is the twenty-second and final chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John, and the final chapter of the New Testament and of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John of Patmos.
In this context, Arendt uses the metaphor of the onion to represent the structure of totalitarian systems. [2] [5] [6] This metaphor illustrates an organized structure centered around a central point, the leader of the totalitarian system. [2] She contrasts this structure with other types, such as the pyramid-like structures of autocracy or ...