Use outside rhetoric

The appellation allegory is aswell acclimated for the afterward agreement that are not a allotment of rhetoric:

A cerebral allegory is the affiliation of article to an acquaintance alfresco the object's environment.

A conceptual allegory is an basal affiliation that is analytical in both accent and thought.

A basis allegory is the basal worldview that shapes an individual's compassionate of a situation.

A ameliorative allegory is an acquaintance that allows one to apprentice about added than just that experience.

A nonlinguistic allegory is an affiliation amid two nonlinguistic realms of experience.

A beheld allegory provides a anatomy or window on experience.

Metaphors can aswell be adumbrated and continued throughout pieces of literature.

editConceptual metaphor

Main article: Conceptual metaphor

Some theorists accept appropriate that metaphors are not alone stylistic, but that they are cognitively important as well. In Metaphors We Live By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson altercate that metaphors are accepted in accustomed life, not just in language, but aswell in anticipation and action. A accepted analogue of a allegory can be declared as a allegory that shows how two things that are not akin in a lot of means are agnate in addition important way. They explain how a allegory is artlessly compassionate and experiencing one affectionate of affair in agreement of another. The authors alarm this abstraction a ‘conduit metaphor.’ By this they meant that a apostle can put account or altar into words or containers, and again forward them forth a channel, or conduit, to a adviser who takes that abstraction or article out of the alembic and makes acceptation of it. In added words, advice is something that account go into. The alembic is abstracted from the account themselves. Lakoff and Johnson accord several examples of circadian metaphors we use, such as “argument is war” and “time is money.” Metaphors are broadly acclimated in ambience to call claimed meaning. The authors aswell advance that advice can be beheld as a machine: “Communication is not what one does with the machine, but is the apparatus itself.” (Johnson, Lakoff, 1980).7

editNonlinguistic metaphor

Metaphors can aswell map acquaintance amid two nonlinguistic realms. In The Dream Frontier, Mark Blechner describes agreeable metaphors, in which a section of music can "map" to the personality and affecting activity of a person.8 Musicologist Leonard Meyer approved how absolutely adroit and harmonic contest can accurate animal emotions.9 There can aswell be a allegorical mapping amid added art forms and animal experience. The art theorist Robert Vischer argued that if we attending at a painting, we "feel ourselves into it" by apperception our physique in the aspect of a nonhuman or azoic article in the painting. For example, the painting "The Solitary Tree" by Caspar David Friedrich shows a timberline with contorted, arid limbs.1011 In searching at that painting, we brainstorm our limbs in a analogously angled and arid shape, and that creates a activity in us of ache and distress. Nonlinguistic metaphors may be the foundation of our acquaintance of visual, musical,12 dance,13 and added art forms