In:The Rhetorical Mind: Current issues
Edited by Maria Clotilde Almeida, Rodrigo Furtado and Olga Blanco-Carrión
[Figurative Thought and Language 20] 2025
► pp. 197–198
Metaphor index
Published online: 2 September 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.mi
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.20.mi
A
- a sport competition as a battle61
- abstract structure is physical30
- activities are journeys56
- anger is madness63
- art is a weapon 5, 189
B
- banksy’s graffiti is guerrilla 5, 182, 183
- being extremely excited is being sick56
C
- cristiano ronaldo elétrico97
- cristiano ronaldo is a legend 4, 104
D
- dança com dragões / dancing with the dragons97
- dark is bad62
- death is darkness58
- democracy is a building131
E
- economic crisis is a disease131
- economic problems/crises are natural disasters29
- economy is a person131
- effect of aggressive behavior stands for agressive behavior62
- effect of emotion for emotion63
- europe is a container40
F
- federer is a skillful vehicle driver59
- federer is a talented violin player60
- federer is a talented writer60
- freedom as island121
G
- grafitti is battle189
I
- immigrants/refugees are felons47
- importance/status is high136
- important is big 98, 106, 129, 130
- important is central 4, 102, 129
- intensity of emotion is heat133
- island as container 114, 121, 122
- island as landscape/seascape composite121
- island as paradise121
- island as support122
L
- love is unity58
M
- manchester united is the theater of dreams103
- migration/refugee as natural disaster46
- monika is seagull117
- morality is caring133
- morality is generosity133
- more is up 59, 101, 106, 132
N
- nadal as a force 61, 62
- nation is a building131
- nation is a family132
- negative emotion are natural forces62
O
- organization is physical structure34
- other as island121
P
- playing with cristiano ronaldo for manchester united is a dream come true105
- playing with cristiano ronaldo is a dream4
- police officer is street artist178
- police officer is vandal 179, 181
- politics is a building131
- politics is balance132
- politics is conflict130
- power is distance 5, 135, 137
- power is proximity 5, 136, 137
- power/control is above 129, 135, 136
- presidential action is affection 132, 133
- presidential political action is a journey130
- presidential political action is conflict130
- presidential power is distance135
- presidential power is knowledge135
- presidential power is proximity136
- presidential power/control is above135
- processes are entities85
- purposes are desired objects105
R
- refugee is an undesired liquid 38, 48
- refugee is felon 38, 41, 42
- refugees are bad49
- refugees/migrants are goods 46, 49
- ronaldo’s performance is a dream105
S
- sea as/is boundary/obstacle121
- sea as/is path121
- security is containment40
- self as location121
- self as mainland121
- similarity is closeness 4, 106
- social distance is physical distance137
- spray can is a gun189
- spray can is a street artist’s weapon 5, 180
T
- thug for life is fighting against violence181
- time is enemy32
- to play for manchester united is a dream105
V
- vamos expulsar a alemanha do euro / let’s kick germany out of the euro99
W
- winemaking is clothmaking2
- wines are buildings 2, 20
- wines are human beings 2, 18
- wines are three-dimensional artefacts19
- woman is food 33, 34
