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    More Metaphoric Madness: Metaphoric Madness, #2
    More Metaphoric Madness: Metaphoric Madness, #2
    More Metaphoric Madness: Metaphoric Madness, #2
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    More Metaphoric Madness: Metaphoric Madness, #2

    By Harish Kumar

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    Is mothball a metaphor for a proposal abandoned or for a project shelved? When does history become a metaphor for geography? How does the metaphor hive provoke a publication to jettison by-lines for good? How does butterfly win its metaphor battle with the beetle?

    Can chameleon be a metaphor for a colourful person? When does textbook become a positive metaphor for an individual? What is that useful metaphor in the frog-scorpion fable? Is albatross a metaphor now for power of flight or pathetic plight? Are all hounds pesky metaphors? Why is spine a wrong metaphor for physical heroism? Why isn't maverick a metaphor for me-toos?

    Metaphors are everyday business and everyone's right of speech. So, it is high time you had questions like these answered by an expert.

    As the second volume in the metaphoric madness series, More Metaphoric Madness brings expert advice, word-pictures and imagery to your doorsteps and ensures metaphors are no longer the sole preserve of academia and elite speakers and writers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarish Kumar
    Release dateApr 2, 2020
    ISBN9781393749981
    More Metaphoric Madness: Metaphoric Madness, #2

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      More Metaphoric Madness - Harish Kumar

      A Few Words about the Book

      You are right now confidently stepping into your second week of this fascinating metaphoric madness. So, you are determined to learn how to use another set of 35 simple words as striking metaphors in your daily exchanges.

      Never has the English language ceased to amaze us with its countless metaphor wonders. You can experience more such wonders and see them unfolding before you in More Metaphoric Madness, the second book in this educative Metaphoric Madness series.

      At the risk of sounding repetitive, let me emphasise here that nearly every word in this magnificent language can be couched as a metaphor. Believe me, employing simple words as exhilarating and enchanting metaphors is extremely educative. And highly utilitarian too.

      One, it makes your words striking and powerful, ever hitting the listeners like hailstones. Two, it transforms your vocabulary into a multi-dimensional personality, with your unmistakable stamp of individuality on it. No one can deny knowing a word in its various senses, literal and otherwise (metaphorical), is as good as knowing multiple words.

      As this glorious English language develops non-stop through its transformational phases, not only new words get into English lexicon every passing day, even existing words acquire their never-used-before metaphorical avatars.

      That is what makes English an energetic language, a powerful dynamo of pictorial metaphors and a veritable gallery of vibrant vignettes. Sure, you can get that boundless energy of the English language released through assorted metaphorical forms all those deceptively straight and simple words take. 

      Believe my words, More Metaphoric Madness will help you in further exploring new metaphors buried in those simple words you already know. For a better and an enhanced learning experience, you will find everywhere in this book, published examples of all the word-metaphors, all living examples culled from leading media properties of the world.

      Again, let me express my heartfelt gratitude to each one of them.

      Simply speaking, this book More Metaphoric Madness represents the second week of the four-week course. You have now before you Book 2, the first of the epochal four-part Metaphoric Madness.

      With as many as five word-metaphors a day and seven days a week, it adds up to 35 word-metaphors a week, all covered in one book. That works out to a total of 140 word-metaphors in all the four books taken together.

      These 140 word-metaphors have been classified into four categories – words from where you live, words from where you learn, words from what you study and what you play.

      The Book 1 Metaphoric Madness dealt with 35 word-metaphors, all simple words drawn from where you live. These 35 wonderful word-metaphors showed the world that innovative usage of simple words is delivered through your imagination, and not through your musty and dog-eared textbooks.

      Now, More Metaphoric Madness will make you alive to the metaphorical qualities of another set of 35 simple words, all drawn from places where you study and learn. That is five word-metaphors a day for the second week.

      The seven sub-groups for the seven days of the sexy second week are: word-metaphors from the second home called the school, its sweaty playground, its musty library, its sharp-smelling laboratory, the zoo, the aviary and the mind-boggling world of insects.

      What should make this More Metaphoric Madness unputdownable is its witty style, tongue-in-cheek comments and lively anecdotes. At the end of the day, if this labour of love makes you love words for their magnetic metaphoric qualities, eggs you on to explore the mysteries buried in them and helps you transform into a consummate communicator, my mission will stand accomplished.

      And that will also be a sure sign that I should labour on and soldier on, other fruits of such labour notwithstanding. 

      Metaphors from the School

      You know school is where you learn. As you learn numbers and languages, your geography and your sciences, you make friends with your fellow

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